Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§285e–1 Special functions

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part C— - Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart subpart 5— - national institute on aging › § 285e–1

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must make sure training programs produce enough allied health workers, nurses, and paramedical staff to care for older people. The Institute’s Director must do research to measure how HHS programs affect the biological, medical, social, and psychological parts of aging. The Director must also run public education to share research and aging information widely so older and near‑older people and all Americans can understand and cope with aging. The Director must give grants to public or private nonprofit groups to study Alzheimer’s disease.

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Title 42, §285e–1

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(a)In carrying out the training responsibilities under this chapter or any other Act for health and allied health professions personnel, the Secretary shall take appropriate steps to insure the education and training of adequate numbers of allied health, nursing, and paramedical personnel in the field of health care for the aged.

(b)The Director of the Institute shall conduct scientific studies to measure the impact on the biological, medical, social, and psychological aspects of aging of programs and activities assisted or conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services.

(c)The Director of the Institute shall carry out public information and education programs designed to disseminate as widely as possible the findings of research sponsored by the Institute, other relevant aging research and studies, and other information about the process of aging which may assist elderly and near-elderly persons in dealing with, and all Americans in understanding, the problems and processes associated with growing older.

(d)The Director of the Institute shall make grants to public and private nonprofit institutions to conduct research relating to Alzheimer’s Disease.

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42 U.S.C. § 285e–1

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73