Two Special Senate Aging Committee Hearings Are Coming Up

The Senate Special Aging Committee is set to hold a special field hearing on "Alzheimer's and Other Cognitive Diseases: An Arizona Perspective" on Nov. 1. The site will be the Granite Reef Senior Center in Scottsdale, Ariz. Present will be Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) along with such witnesses as Roberta Diaz Brinton, director of the Center For Innovation In Brain Science at the University of Arizona, Tucson; Lisa Capp, a previous Alzheimer's disease caregiver; and Alireza Atri, Director of the Banner Sun Health Research Institute in Sun City, Ariz. Then, on Nov. 6, the Senate Special Aging Committee will hold a special hearing on protecting veterans against scams. The site will be the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Witnesses will include LaVerne Foreman, an Army and Air Force veteran who was scammed by a fake veteran's charity; W. Dewayne Richardson, district attorney with the Fourth Circuit Court District of Mississippi; and Carroll Harris, acting inspector in charge of the Communications, Governance, and Strategy Group at the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.