42 U.S.C. § 247a — Family support groups for Alzheimer’s disease patients

(a) Establishment; priorities If Congress has provided the money, the Secretary — acting through the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Health, and the Administration on Aging — must promote setting up family support groups. These groups give free educational, emotional, and practical support to people with Alzheimer's disease or a related memory disorder, and to their families. In promoting these groups, the Secretary must give priority to: (1) university medical centers and other health care facilities that get federal money from the Secretary and either research Alzheimer's disease or provide services to people who have it; and (2) community-based programs that get funding from the Secretary through the Administration on Aging. (b) National network to coordinate groups The Secretary must promote building a national network to coordinate the family support groups described in (a).