1997 Legislative Platform

The Commonwealth Coalition for Alzheimer’s Advocacy (CCAA) represents a unified voice in advocating for increased community awareness and change in law and public policy to respond to the needs of Alzheimer’s patients and their families.

CCAA is composed of the Public Policy Committees, membership and concerned citizen volunteers of the eight Alzheimer’s Association Chapters throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Chapters provide services to approximately 88,000 to 100,000 Virginians and their families who suffer the personal and financial devastation inflicted by Alzheimer’s disease.

The 1997 Legislative Platform (presented to the Virginia General Assembly during its January and February session) addressed our constituents’ highest priorities and demonstrated the need for legislative support and awareness to make sound public policy decisions focusing on four issues:

• Adult Guardianship Reform
• Special Care Unit Disclosure
• Caregiver Investment Bill
• Home and Community Based Services

CCAA worked to enact into law the four policy objectives described in the Legislative Platform and monitored other legislation affecting Alzheimer’s patients and their families including: Medicaid, Managed Care, and Adult Care Residence Regulation.

CCAA endorsed other legislation affecting Alzheimer’s patients and their families including:

• Managed Care Bill of Rights
• Increase in the Auxiliary Grant Rate
• Consumer Protection in the Sale of Long Term Care Insurance

CCAA invites your support for the 1998 Legislative Platform, which will be announced in the autumn of 1997, and the related legislation CCAA endorses to better serve Alzheimer’s disease patients and their families across Virginia.