A Memory Quilt to Educate About Alzheimer’s

To develop more awareness of Alzheimer’s and spread knowledge about this disease, quilters in Blount County, Tennessee are designing a memory quilt which will hand in the Blount county Museum.  The Blount County Outreach Council, under the direction of Trula Jones, whose mother has Alzheimer’s, developed a plan to increase community awareness and help fight this disease.

The colors in this Alzheimer’s awareness quilt – black, green, gold and red – are associated with African-American tradition.

For more information about this memory quilt, visit The Daily Times ( www.thedailytimes.com ).  Click on “health times” and scroll down to the story for 8/26. Also you may find information at The Alzheimer’s Daily News (www.alznews.org ) for Sept. 1.