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ATLANTA — Alzheimer’s Association advocates – many from the Augusta area – visited the Georgia Capitol on Monday to push for new legislation.
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Trying to organize the 50 volunteers from the Augusta region of the Alzheimer's Association, Kathy Tuckey, the association's regional director, gestures on the Capitol steps.
![Sen. Bill Jackson, R-Appling, gestures as he makes a point while talking over lunch with advocates from the Alzheimer's Association, Richard Brelsford of Evans, with Myrtle Myer of Thomson, right, and Emily Baumann, left. The advocates, who came from across the state to meet at the Capitol with legislators, wore T-shirts with the word "voice" to show they were speaking for family members who could no longer speak for themselves while suffering from the memory disease. The group was part of more than 300 advocates who donned purple T-shirts to become a voice for the 120,000 Georgians suffering from the memory disease. This year, the group is pushing passage of House Bill 850 which would allow medical caregivers to avoid professional liability for abiding by a physician's order for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST, which may include the patient's request to be permitted to die naturally. Morris News Service](http://aug-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/story_slideshow_thumb/10916413.jpg "Sen. Bill Jackson, R-Appling, gestures as he makes a point while talking over lunch with advocates from the Alzheimer's Association, Richard Brelsford of Evans, with Myrtle Myer of Thomson, right, and Emily Baumann, left. The advocates, who came from across the state to meet at the Capitol with legislators, wore T-shirts with the word "voice" to show they were speaking for family members who could no longer speak for themselves while suffering from the memory disease. The group was part of more than 300 advocates who donned purple T-shirts to become a voice for the 120,000 Georgians suffering from the memory disease. This year, the group is pushing passage of House Bill 850 which would allow medical caregivers to avoid professional liability for abiding by a physician's order for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST, which may include the patient's request to be permitted to die naturally. Morris News Service")
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Sen. Bill Jackson, R-Appling, gestures as he makes a point while talking over lunch with advocates from the Alzheimer's Association, Richard Brelsford of Evans, with Myrtle Myer of Thomson, right, and Emily Baumann, left. The advocates, who came from across the state to meet at the Capitol with legislators, wore T-shirts with the word "voice" to show they were speaking for family members who could no longer speak for themselves while suffering from the memory disease. The group was part of more than 300 advocates who donned purple T-shirts to become a voice for the 120,000 Georgians suffering from the memory disease. This year, the group is pushing passage of House Bill 850 which would allow medical caregivers to avoid professional liability for abiding by a physician's order for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST, which may include the patient's request to be permitted to die naturally.
House Bill 850 would allow physicians to write a standing order for a patient’s end-of-life preferences that other medical providers would have to follow, but they would be exempt from professional liability for doing so.
Alzheimer’s care advocates, who came to meet with legislators, wore T-shirts with the word “voice” to show they were speaking for family members who could no longer speak for themselves while suffering from the memory disease. In all more than 300 advocates said they hope to become a voice for the 120,000 Georgians suffering from the memory disease.
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![Sen. Bill Jackson, R-Appling, gestures as he makes a point while talking over lunch with advocates from the Alzheimer's Association, Richard Brelsford of Evans, with Myrtle Myer of Thomson, right, and Emily Baumann, left. The advocates, who came from across the state to meet at the Capitol with legislators, wore T-shirts with the word "voice" to show they were speaking for family members who could no longer speak for themselves while suffering from the memory disease. The group was part of more than 300 advocates who donned purple T-shirts to become a voice for the 120,000 Georgians suffering from the memory disease. This year, the group is pushing passage of House Bill 850 which would allow medical caregivers to avoid professional liability for abiding by a physician's order for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST, which may include the patient's request to be permitted to die naturally. Morris News Service](http://aug-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/10916413.jpg "Sen. Bill Jackson, R-Appling, gestures as he makes a point while talking over lunch with advocates from the Alzheimer's Association, Richard Brelsford of Evans, with Myrtle Myer of Thomson, right, and Emily Baumann, left. The advocates, who came from across the state to meet at the Capitol with legislators, wore T-shirts with the word "voice" to show they were speaking for family members who could no longer speak for themselves while suffering from the memory disease. The group was part of more than 300 advocates who donned purple T-shirts to become a voice for the 120,000 Georgians suffering from the memory disease. This year, the group is pushing passage of House Bill 850 which would allow medical caregivers to avoid professional liability for abiding by a physician's order for life-sustaining treatment, or POLST, which may include the patient's request to be permitted to die naturally. Morris News Service")
