Solcial Security Compassionate Allowances, Alzheime's disease and related dementias

Compassionate Allowances Website Home Page

Compassionate Allowances
Social Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

Compassionate allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate allowances allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.

Commissioner Astrue has held seven Compassionate Allowances public outreach hearings. The hearings were on rare diseases, cancers, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke, early-onset Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, schizophrenia, and cardiovascular disease.

The initial list of Compassionate Allowances conditions was developed as a result of information received at public outreach hearings, public comment on an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, comments received from the Social Security and Disability Determination Service communities, and the counsel of medical and scientific experts. Also, we considered which conditions are most likely to meet our current definition of disability.

SSDI_checklist.pdf (application/pdf Object)

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: Opening the gateway to help and a cure

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration is the place to turn for accurate information, compassion and hope when lives are touched by frontotemporal degeneration. FTD, also called frontotemporal dementia or frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), is a disease process that causes a group of brain disorders characterized by changes in behavior and personality, language and/or motor skills, and a deterioration in a person’s ability to function

CaringHome.org funded by Cornell Medical College,

This Caring Home

CaringHome.org was funded by grants from several foundations to Weill Cornell Medical College, a top ranked clinical and medical research center located in New York City. Rosemary Bakker, MS, ASID is on academic staff at Weill Cornell Medical College and is the Director of ThisCaringHome.org.

All materials on ThisCaringHome’s website have been reviewed by select members of the Advisory Board, composed of a wide variety of professionals, including nurses, dementia specialists, physical and occupational therapists, safety experts, social workers, and recreational therapists.

http://www.thiscaringhome.org/spec_concerns/index.php