Signed appropriations package includes $100 million funding increase for dementia research

McKnight’s Senior Living March 25, 2024
Lois A. Bowers

A fiscal year 2024 appropriations package signed Saturday by President Biden will increase funding by $100 million for research into Alzheimer’s and other dementias at the National Institutes of Health and allocate $34 million to fund and continue to implement the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act.

The $1.2 trillion package included the six remaining FY24 spending bills, with the dementia research funding included as part of the bill to fund the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education departments. The US Department of Health and Human Services, of which the NIH is a part, will receive a total of $117 billion, and the NIH will receive a total of almost $49 billion, CNN reported. A separate package of six bills...

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