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) Nothing patchy about this support
The club made a Celtic-design quilt in 40 shades of green, which was raffled to raise money for Alzheimers Marlborough. The 1000 tickets sold out well before the raffle closed yet another example of residents getting behind this good cause, said Alzheimers Marlborough president Dianne Johnson.Alzheimers Marlborough opened a day-care centre and offices in Wither Rd in February, and the Picton Quilters have already made their mark on the centre with their quilted panels hanging in the reception area. Mrs Johnson said many of the people who had helped make the quilts had friends or family with memory loss.
Community support for the day centre had been outstanding, she said. The Marlborough District Council had allowed the $700,000 building to occupy the council-owned site free of rent and rates. More>>
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) Maze raises funds for Alzhiemer's Association
Part of the proceeds raised from admission and donations will benefit the Iowa chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Hohl explains the motivation behind the maze.Hohl says, "Each of our staff, from my immediate family to the other six, eight, ten of our staff members have all in some way been impacted with someone in their family being diagnosed with Alzheimer's…whether it was a parent, parent-in-law, aunt or great aunt." The twists and turns of the maze are patterned after the convolutions in the human brain. Hohl says brain-themed questions are posted at the main intersections, providing education — and clues to reaching the end of the maze.
"We have a trivia game that we invite folks to play as they travel through the maze," Hohl says. "It's on brain health and brain nutrition." She says they have already had busloads of school kids visit the maze, which takes about an hour to complete. More>>
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) Alzheimer's initiative supports doctors, patients
Jay Rockefeller announced the Alzheimer's Outreach and Registry Program on Monday in Morgantown.The West Virginia Medical Foundation, Bureau of Senior Services, Alzheimer's Association and the Cable Telecommunications Association are partnering on the project.
It will offer doctors continuing education, starting with five courses in five regions of the state this fall.
The program also helps physicians find resources that could help them, their patients and their patients' families.
And it features a registry that may help more precisely count the number of cases in the state.
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) Elaine Alquist, Willie Brown and Kim Belshe Convene Purple Ribbon
The state has not effectively addressed policies and practices regarding Alzheimer's since 1987.Brown will be joined by Lloyd Dean, Jonathan Fielding, Leeza Gibbons, Robert Lagomarsino, Kirsten Mangers, Arnold Millstein and Fernando Torres-Gil. Convening on World Alzheimer's Day, the eight-member Panel and State Alzheimer's Plan Task Force will address how California can best respond to this impending epidemic.
A report released by the Alzheimer's Association in February predicts that by 2030, the number of Californians age 55 and older living with Alzheimer's disease will double to 1.1 million.
"The data indicates the economic and human costs of Alzheimer's disease will be insurmountable for our State if we don't act now. More>>
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) Walking miles to help
From left, Lynne and Lisa Tardiff and Diane Gauvin, all of Worcester, walk to end Alzheimer's yesterday along the track near the Worcester Senior Center yesterday morning during the Alzheimer's Association's Central Massachusetts Memory Walk. (RICH DUGAS) . More>>