Think it Over: A Message from CEO Bill Fisher
If you are on our advocacy list (and you should be), you’ve heard from us about NAPA, the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. This week, NAPA was signed into law by the President’s. Alzheimer’s is...
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Holiday thanks from the Alzheimer’s Association
As we take stock at the end of the year, we have much to celebrate and much for which to be thankful. The Alzheimer’s Association – both staff and volunteers – made a difference...
ACTION ALERT: Call Congress today
Great news! Last night, thanks to the tireless work of advocates like you, the United States Senate passed the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA). The bill now moves to the U.S. House of Representatives. But...
Alzheimer’s in the news: moving concern for the cause
Hopefully you’ve seen expanded coverage of our issues in the media lately. The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s was created by the Alzheimer’s Association in collaboration with California’s First Lady. It...
I’m always impressed at how many strangers come to these events”¦
I joined our team in Sacramento Saturday for the Association’s Memory Walk. A record crowd turned out to create a world without Alzheimer’s and make a difference in the quality of life for those...
Walking the Walk
5,000 people gathered at Mission Creek Park in San Francisco two weeks ago for Memory Walk – the last Memory Walk, but more about that in a minute. This was the beginning of the...
Memory Walk”¦ Stocking the Pond
When I was a young boy in Iowa my dad used to take us fishing in nearby farm ponds. We never caught anything large, just bluegills and bullheads, but I remember finding it all...
Think It Over: The research road is rough, but we’ll get there
Cancer, heart disease and AIDS receive 10 to 15 times the Federal funding of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s no coincidence that deaths from all of these conditions declined over the last five years while deaths from Alzheimer’s rose. Research investments have paid off in these areas and it can in Alzheimer’s disease.
