People Living With Alzheimer's, Experts To Testify at Senate HearingAlzheimer's Association The President and Congress cannot save Medicare and Medicaid or confront growing federal and state budget deficits unless Alzheimer's disease is brought under control. With a looming Alzheimer epidemic as babyboomers enter the age of highest risk, now is the time to launch an aggressive offensive campaign against the disease according to Alzheimer advocates who will testify at a Senate hearing on the disease at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1 in Room 216 Hart Senate Office Building.  San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens, whose grandmother is living with Alzheimer's, and St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz, whose late mother, had Alzheimer's, headline a group of experts and people living with Alzheimer's who will testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. Among those living with Alzheimer's who will testify are 57 year-old Dwayne Uptegraph a former art teacher from Dubuque, Iowa, who was forced to retire two years ago after being diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's, and 59 year-old Don Kurtz, a West Point graduate and former top Wall Street executive from Philadelphia. Both will urge Congress and the President to increase Alzheimer research funding to $1 billion a year so to improve our chances of finding a cure and better treatments. Current funding levels at the National Institutes of Health are approximately $650 million. 9:30 a.m. Congressional Hearing on Alzheimer's disease Other Hearing Participants:
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