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OLR Bill Analysis
sHB 6912
AN ACT ESTABLISHING AN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND
DEMENTIA TASK FORCE.
SUMMARY
This bill establishes a 15-member Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
Task Force. It requires the task force to develop a State Alzheimer’s Plan,
which must make certain findings and recommendations about the care
of people living with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
The bill requires the task force to annually report, beginning by
January 1, 2027, to the governor and the Aging, Human Services, and
Public Health committees. The report must include recommendations
for implementing the State Alzheimer’s Plan and identify any
implementation barriers. Lastly, the bill requires the task force to update
the plan every four years.
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2025
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA TASK FO RCE
Under the bill, the task force must (1) examine the needs of people
living with Alzheimer’s or dementia, services available to them and
their family caregivers, and health care providers’ ability to meet the
needs of people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia and (2) develop a
State Alzheimer’s Plan.
STATE ALZHEIMER’S PLAN
Service Needs
The plan must include findings and recommendations about the
service needs of people living with Alzheimer’s and dementia including
the following:
1. the state’s role in providing or facilitating long-term care, family
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early-onset Alzheimer’s or dementia;
2. state policies regarding people living with Alzheimer’s or
dementia; and
3. the fiscal impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia on publicly funded
health care programs.
Existing Resources
The plan must also make findings and recommendations about the
existing resources, services, and capacity to deliver those to people
living with Alzheimer’s or dementia, including the following:
1. the type, cost, and availability of dementia care services;
2. the availability of health care providers who can provide
Alzheimer’s or dementia-related services (e.g., neurologists);
3. dementia-specific training requirements for public and private
employees who interact with people living with Alzheimer’s or
dementia (e.g., long-term care providers and first responders);
4. home and community-based services, including respite care;
5. quality of care measures for home and community-based services
and residential care facilities; and
6. state-supported Alzheimer’s and dementia research conducted at
higher education institutions in Connecticut.
Policies and Strategies
Lastly, the plan must make findings and recommendations about
policies and strategies that do the following:
1. increase public awareness of Alzheimer’s and dementia;
2. educate health care providers to increase early detection and
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and dementia;
4. evaluate the health care system’s capacity to meet the growing
number and needs of people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia;
5. increase the number of health care providers available to treat the
growing aging population and populations living with
Alzheimer’s or dementia;
6. improve services provided in the home and community to delay
and decrease the need for institutionalized care for people living
with these diseases;
7. improve long-term care services, including assisted living services
for people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia;
8. assist unpaid Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers;
9. increase and improve research on Alzheimer’s and dementia;
10. promote activities to maintain and improve brain health;
11. improve data and information collection relating to Alzheimer’s,
dementia, and the public health burdens associated with these
diseases;
12. improve public safety and address the safety-related needs of
people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia;
13. address legal protections for, and legal issues faced by, people living
with these diseases; and
14. improve ways the state evaluates and adopts policies to assist
people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
TASK FORCE COMPOSITI ON
Under the bill, the task force consists of 15 members, 11 of whom the
governor must appoint. The 11 appointees must include the following:
1. a person living with early-stage or early-onset Alzheimer’s or
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2. a family caregiver of a person living with Alzheimer’s or
dementia;
3. a representative from a municipality that provides services to
senior citizens;
4. a person representing home health care agencies;
5. two health care providers with experience diagnosing and
treating Alzheimer’s disease;
6. a person representing a national organization that advocates for
people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia;
7. a person representing the area agencies on aging;
8. a person representing long-term care facilities;
9. an expert in aging policy issues; and
10. a person representing homemaker-companion agencies.
The task force must also include the state ombudsman and the aging
and disability services, public health, and social services commissioners, or
their designees.
All initial task force appointments must be made by January 1, 2026,
and those initially appointed serve either a two- or three-year term as
specified in the bill. Subsequent appointees must serve two-year terms.
Members may be reappointed for an additional two-year term.
TASK FORCE ORGANIZAT ION
The aging and disability services commissioner, or her designee,
must convene the first task force meeting within 30 days after all
members are appointed. Task force members must select a chairperson
and vice chairperson, from among the task force’s members, to serve in
those roles for up to two consecutive years. The task force must meet at
least quarterly.
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administrative staff.
COMMITTEE ACTION
Aging Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 13 Nay 0 (03/04/2025)