A bill moving through the Arizona Legislature would allocate $300,000 to create a virtual training program for dementia care.
House Bill 2202 would allow Alzheimer’s experts to train health care providers throughout the state on the latest best practices for diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Tory Roberg, with the Alzheimer's Association in Phoenix, said "82% of primary care physicians said they weren’t comfortable making a dementia diagnosis; 39% reported shortages of dementia specialists in their community; 65% say their residency included very little dementia education."
Roberg says the funding is necessary because the state’s population over the age of 65 is expected to outnumber those under the age of 18 by 2028. The bill is now headed to the Senate Rules Committee.
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