To amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the Project ECHO Grant Program, to allow for such program to disseminate knowledge and build capacity to address Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and for other purposes.
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Accelerating Access to Dementia and Alzheimer’s Provider Training Act” or the “AADAPT Act”.
2. Expanding capacity for health outcomes
Section 330N of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c–20) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking “entities” and inserting “entities, including a public or nonprofit private entity,”; and
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting “dementia care,” after “palliative care,”.