Journal article
Placing Public Health onto the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Public Policy Platform
The Gerontologist, Vol.65(Supplement_1), pp.S75-S84
12/2025
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnaf224
PMCID: PMC12736972
PMID: 41056420
Abstract
In 2017, the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging added public health to the Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) policy platform by introducing the Building Our Largest Dementia Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act. Since then, 34 state health departments, seven local, two territorial and one tribal health organization have received a BOLD Program award from the CDC. With the support of the Alzheimer's Association and university-based Centers of Excellence, their efforts have increased public awareness, expanded training of health care providers, linked public health programs and health care systems, and supported programs to reduce the risk for ADRD. In this forum, we draw on examples of federal and state policy making targeting persons living with dementia and demonstrate how iron triangles consisting of advocacy organizations, public servants and policy makers have been critical in building a public policy platform for more than 50 years. We then consider how public health leadership may rely on such iron triangles to expand their role, focusing on the critical role assumed by professional and academic organizations in educating and training those who may help respond to the public health crisis being presented by the booming number of older Americans with ADRD.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Placing Public Health onto the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Public Policy Platform
- Creators
- Brian Kaskie - University of IowaJulie Bobitt - University of Illinois ChicagoYogesh Shah - Broadlawns Medical CenterSarah Khasawinah - Independent Sector
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Gerontologist, Vol.65(Supplement_1), pp.S75-S84
- DOI
- 10.1093/geront/gnaf224
- PMID
- 41056420
- PMCID
- PMC12736972
- NLM abbreviation
- Gerontologist
- ISSN
- 0016-9013
- eISSN
- 1758-5341
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Grant note
- College of Public HealthThe University of IowaDepartment of Health Management and Policy
The University of Iowa, College of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy supported this study.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 10/07/2025
- Date published
- 12/2025
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Family and Community Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9985014898602771
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