YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityYour local doctor could learn more about dementia — the training program runs through 2031.
Transparency & Accountability
The bill sets the program's money to run out at the end of fiscal year 2031. Lawmakers would have to pass a new bill to extend it again.
More about this bill
Most people would see no direct change in daily life. The bill keeps a federal grant program going for five more years. That program funds video sessions where specialists coach local doctors and nurses. It aims at rural areas and other places where specialists are hard to find. Up to $10 million a year could go to it, from 2027 through 2031. Dementia care would join the list of topics those sessions can cover. Today that list includes mental health, pain, and palliative care (comfort care for serious illness). If your family deals with Alzheimer's disease far from a big hospital, your local doctor could get more training. Public agencies and nonprofit groups would be clearly listed as eligible to run these programs.
Congressional Summary
Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act or the AADAPT ActThis bill reauthorizes through FY2031 and revises the Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program, which is administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration. This program provides grants to support the use of technology that connects different health care professionals to improve access to health care, including specialty care, for certain rural and medically underserved populations. The bill explicitly adds dementia care to the types of specialty care that the program may address.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Reported to House
- Action Date
- 2026-07-02
- Date Added
- 2026-07-17
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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