Alzheimer’s Awareness
Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness at EverydayHealth.com offers a great deal of information about this illness.
The Alzheimer’s Association provides a wealth of information. 
The National Institute of Aging (NIA) provides Alzheimer’s information at the Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Referral Center (ADEAR).
Alzheimer’s Australia lets you know about information and resources in that country.
OurAlzheimers.com at Health Central is another good resource.
What has been a good resource for you?

Lon Blais is planning a cross-country bike tour to honor his father Bob who had Alzheimer’s Disease and to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. His tour kicks off on August 31st 2008 and you can read all about it on his live online journal.

It might sound a little strange, but the Alzheimer’s Association is calling on people to ‘host an Alzheimer’s Party’ to watch The Forgetting is an Emmy Award-winning documentary based on David Shenk’s best-selling book.
This documentary will air nationally Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 9:00 pm ET on PBS (local broadcasts may vary).
The idea is that you sign up with the Alzheimer’s Association to host a party and they’ll send you party set up tips and tools, local PBS broadcast information and party activity materials via email.
Sounds like a great way to increase awareness of Alzheimer’s and have some fun at …read more

Two teens, Erin Mross and Claire Makinen, used turning 16 as a means of raising money for the local Alzheimer’s Association. Both girls have grandmothers suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Keen to do something to help, they organized a combined slumber party to celebrate their birthdays and asked all their guests to bring a donation rather than a gift.
What a great way to celebrate a birthday….
read more here…

AlzheimersNotes.com
 We continually find more celebrities speaking aout about Alzheimer’s because it affects family members, friends, characters they play, or themselves.  They realize the need for Alzheimer’s awareness and funding for research into this devastating disease.
At the web site for the Alzheimer’s Association in the UK, we find many well-known people speaking out or up about this disease such as Dame  Judi Dench, AA Gill, Britt Ekland, Fiona Phillips, Tony Robinson, Richard Briers, Sally Lindsay and more.  There are celebrities of all ages and from various walks of life.
We learn that they, like us, have had to adjust to a loved one …read more

It’s like an Amber alert but for Seniors and it’s working presently in eight states – Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucy, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.
When issued, it makes everyone aware that someone with Alzheimer’s Disease is missing and accelerates the process of engaging the community in the search and rescue of the vulnerable person. Immediate action includes using public broadcast systems, state transportation department automated road signs and a emergency call-line.
Sounds like a program that should be in all 50 states…
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I discovered this over at The San Diego Traveler.
QUASH is a scavenger hunt where getting from Point A to Point B is only half the challenge. Traveling by foot or public transport, you have two and a half hours to get complete the route, solving clues and completeing challenges along the way. Some challenges need brawn, others brain and all will require teamwork.
Sure sounds like fun not to mention a great way to support the cause and raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association. Only catch is you have to be in Philadelphia (June 7th), San Diego (June 14th), or …read more