Chance Cook / staff video(Photo: Shutterstock photo)The House of Representatives has recently passed the bipartisan Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act, and I would like to thank Rep. Tom Reed for playing a key role in making this happen.
Nearly half of all individuals with advanced dementia are in hospice care at the time of their death.
However, less than half of surveyed nursing homes have palliative care programs.
If PCHETA passes the Senate and is signed by the president into law, it will establish palliative care workforce training programs for doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other health professionals, and enhance research on improving the delivery of palliative care.
Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to get the PCHETA bill passed in the Senate.
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My sister (trustee) has stated a couple of times that she wished our dad would die.
If so, it is up to him to allow the grandchildren to live in his house and allow your sister to be an influence.
If he made her trustee of his trust (if that is what you mean) he must trust her to some extent.
However, as Trustee of his trust, she has an obligation and duty imposed to preserve trust property.
Allowing her children to live in your father’s house for free does not sound she is acting in a fiduciary capacity.
My sister (trustee) has stated a couple of times that she wished our dad would die.
If so, it is up to him to allow the grandchildren to live in his house and allow your sister to be an influence.
If he made her trustee of his trust (if that is what you mean) he must trust her to some extent.
However, as Trustee of his trust, she has an obligation and duty imposed to preserve trust property.
Allowing her children to live in your father’s house for free does not sound she is acting in a fiduciary capacity.
AFA: How Federal Spending Deal Impacts Individuals with Alzheimer’sThursday, March 22, 2018 10:04 PM UTCNEW YORK, March 22, 2018 --Boost to NIA/NIH FundingThe omnibus federal spending deal, currently being considered by Congress, will deliver a $414 million funding increase for Alzheimer’s disease research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Anti-Wandering LawThe spending deal will also enact Kevin and Avonte’s Law, which will deliver $10 million in federal funding over the next 5 years to support public safety programs that enable first responders to quickly locate individuals with Alzheimer’s or autism who wander away from their caregivers.
This spending package takes important steps forward in funding the fight against Alzheimer’s and helping the over 5 million Americans living with dementia and their family caregivers.
“Enacting Kevin and Avonte’s law will protect our nation’s most vulnerable families from the hazards of wandering, which is a very common and dangerous behavior among individuals with Alzheimer’s.
The deadline to achieve the primary goal of the national Alzheimer’s plan—to find a cure or more efficacious treatment by 2025— is fast approaching.
The same night a wake was held for a Rochester teen with autism who died after walking away from his school unnoticed, a federal measure to pay for tracking devices for vulnerable children and adults passed in both houses of Congress.
The legislation was included in a massive omnibus spending package that President Trump is now threatening to veto.
The measure would allow law enforcement agencies to install software to track the location of individuals with dementia, autism, or other disorders, who wear bracelets connected to a radio frequency tracking system.
Nine year old Kevin Curtis Wills wandered from home, slipped into Iowa’s Raccoon River and drowned in 2008.
Fourteen year old Avonte Oquendo wandered away from his school and drowned in New York City’s East River in 2014.