The Kansas Department of Health and Environment will receive nearly $2 million over five years to build public health infrastructure and increase capacity to treat alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Kansas was one of 43 recipients of funding from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention through the building or largest dementia infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act.
KDHE Secretary Janet Stanek says the number of Kansans living with alzheimer’s or dementia is on the rise and the funds will target all levels of prevention–primary , secondary and tertiary, to ensure that Kansans and their caregivers maintain a healthy quality of life before and after diagnosis. The funding will be used to reestablish an Alzheimer’s Disease Coalition in Kansas, which will use the CDC’s Healthy Brain Initiative state and local road map for public health to revise and implement proven strategies in the alzheimer’s state plan.
