October is here and The Legends at Heritage Place is excited about one of their upcoming events for the month. Called “Legends Academy”, their new educational program is focused on providing useful information to family and friends who know someone with memory loss. “This has been a…
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Thomas Landing team walks to find an end to Alzheimer’s
What an honor to walk with so many people committed to find and end to Alzheimer’s on Saturday, September 10, 2011. The walk started at 9:30am on a beautiful, sunny day. Walkers of all ages helped raise over $31,000.00 from the Rice Lake area. There…
A Walk to End Alzheimer’s
Today, as many as 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. In addition, 10 million baby boomers are aging, increasing their risk for developing this fatal disease. Now is the time to end this epidemic! But there is something we can do to stop this…
Don’t Write Off those with Alzheimer’s
I’ve been thinking for awhile now, on how to write this particular story, because it is so important. Kristen Gerencher wrote a wonderful piece in the Wall Street Journal recently that really says it all. Please take a moment and read the article “Don’t Write Off…
What we’ll be watching this weekend
This morning I came across a blog post over at CNN that mentioned a television special hosted by Larry King. It’s called “Unthinkable: the Alzheimer’s Edpidmic”. It was air on May 1st at 7pm Central. On Sunday May 1st, CNN will air the first Larry…