AADAPT Act
Sponsored By: Senator Shelley Capito
Introduced
Summary
Expands Project ECHO to cover dementia care and to allow more types of recipients. This change would add "dementia care" to the program's topics and let public and nonprofit private entities be recipients or subrecipients under the grant program.
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- Health providers: Would let more local and public organizations run or join Project ECHO hubs focused on dementia care, increasing opportunities for training and mentoring.
- People with Alzheimer’s and families: Would broaden the topics covered by Project ECHO to include dementia care, aiming to spread best practices and improve care quality.
- Public health capacity: Would expand the Project ECHO Grant Program's reach to help disseminate knowledge and build provider capacity to address Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
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1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More dementia training through Project ECHO
This bill would expand eligibility for Project ECHO grants to include public and nonprofit private entities. It would add dementia care to the program's covered training topics, listed after palliative care. Health providers that run training programs could become newly eligible to receive grants or serve as subrecipients. The bill does not name funding amounts, an effective date, or a sunset.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Shelley Capito
WV • R
Cosponsors
Amy Klobuchar
MN • D
Sponsored 3/10/2026
Jerry Moran
KS • R
Sponsored 3/10/2026
James Lankford
OK • R
Sponsored 3/10/2026
Dan Sullivan
AK • R
Sponsored 3/10/2026
Andy Kim
NJ • D
Sponsored 3/10/2026
Cory Booker
NJ • D
Sponsored 3/10/2026
Maria Cantwell
WA • D
Sponsored 3/10/2026
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