Category: News and notes

Alzheimer's champions / Bill, Area Leader / News and notes

November 23, 2010

Alzheimer’s in the news: moving concern for the cause

Hopefully you’ve seen expanded coverage of our issues in the media lately. The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s was created by the Alzheimer’s Association in collaboration with California’s First Lady. It...

Alzheimer's champions / Bill, Area Leader / News and notes

October 5, 2010

I’m always impressed at how many strangers come to these events”¦

I joined our team in Sacramento Saturday for the Association’s Memory Walk. A record crowd turned out to create a world without Alzheimer’s and make a difference in the quality of life for those...

Alzheimer's champions / Bill, Area Leader / News and notes

September 23, 2010

Walking the Walk

5,000 people gathered at Mission Creek Park in San Francisco two weeks ago for Memory Walk – the last Memory Walk, but more about that in a minute. This was the beginning of the...

Alzheimer's champions / Bill, Area Leader / News and notes

September 9, 2010

Memory Walk”¦ Stocking the Pond

When I was a young boy in Iowa my dad used to take us fishing in nearby farm ponds. We never caught anything large, just bluegills and bullheads, but I remember finding it all...

Alzheimer's research news / Bill, Area Leader / News and notes

August 24, 2010

Think It Over: The research road is rough, but we’ll get there

Cancer, heart disease and AIDS receive 10 to 15 times the Federal funding of Alzheimer’s disease. It’s no coincidence that deaths from all of these conditions declined over the last five years while deaths from Alzheimer’s rose. Research investments have paid off in these areas and it can in Alzheimer’s disease.