Alzheimer’s Advocates Share Their Stories
On February 7th, 2017, more than 150 people from California gathered in Sacramento to attend the Alzheimer’s Association State Advocacy...
Category: Advocacy
A Bay Area Alzheimer’s Advocate Shares Her Story
My advocacy work is personal. My mother died as a result of Alzheimer’s on October 4, 2009. I was there with her every day and every step of the way. My family had always been very close knit and my mother meant the world to me. I didn’t think that I would be able to live without her. It broke my heart into a million pieces and hurt like hell to watch this cruel disease erase my mother’s memory of those she loved and then kill her.
So Long….
In September, with ambivalent feelings, I told our board that it was time for me to step away from my...
Advocacy Matters
Does advocacy matter? You bet it does! More than 33,000 advocates chapter-wide persistently emailed, tweeted, marched, called, and visited with...
Advocacy Matters
The National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, which was mandated by the 2011 National Alzheimer’s Project Act, has a primary...
Alzheimer’s Advocates Paint Sacramento Purple
Wednesday April 29th marked the 15th annual California Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Day. We had volunteers from all over the state...
Learning to Accept a New Mother, a New Way
By Dera Williams “I told you I’m not going anywhere and I don’t want anyone in my house. I can...
Marissa Low, Caregiver, Advocate, Volunteer for the Alzheimer’s Association
During National Volunteer Week and all year long, we wish to celebrate the stories of our dedicated and hard-working volunteers....
