Health Aff (Millwood)
April 2014
The 2012 National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease set an ambitious goal: to both prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer's disease by 2025. To reach this goal, tens of thousands of volunteers will be needed to participate in clinical trials to test promising new interventions and therapies. To mobilize these volunteers and their health care providers to participate in future clinical trials, it will be necessary to achieve a better understanding of the barriers keeping people from participating in Alzheimer's research; form innovative partnerships among researchers, health care and social service providers, and the public; and develop more-effective outreach strategies.
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