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Title of Collaborative Activity:

Healthy People 2020-Dementias, Including Alzheimer's Disease

Description of Collaborative Activity:

This Healthy People 2020 topic will focus on increasing the awareness of the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, and reducing the proportion of preventable hospitalizations in persons with diagnosed Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The goal is to reduce the morbidity and costs associated with, and maintain or enhance the quality of life for, persons with dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.

Type of Collaborative Activity:

Advisory Group

Year the Collaborative Activity Originated:

2011

NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director:

NIA, NIMH, NINDS

HHS Agency Collaborators on this Activity:

CDC