Former model, B. Smith requested the U.S. Senate to approve funds for research on Alzheimer's so that it would make a difference in the lives of many.

She said, “I’m here because I don’t want anybody else to have to go through this.” She pleaded the committee, “to make a difference not just for the 5 million Americans with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, but for the future generations who will face this.”
Compared with $5 billion for cancer and $2 billion for cardiovascular disease, the National Institute of Health (NIH) currently invests $586 million for Alzheimer’s research.
Richard Hodes, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Aging, part of NIH, said, NIH has requested an additional $51 million for Alzheimer’s research in the president’s 2016 budget. The additional funds would be used to bolster research into identifying new risk and protective genes; drug discovery and development; and trials of therapies for people at the highest risk of the disease.
Source-Medindia