All you have to do is listen-really listen-to people newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease to know our nation has no time to waste in developing a national strategy to defeat this devastating disease. Their sheer terror runs high: they know their ultimate fate-with no cure, the disease will run its course of a steady, debilitating decline and... Read more
At all times, we need to speak for individuals with Alzheimer's disease who can no longer speak for themselves. But there are points when our responsibility becomes even more imperative. The controversy that flared up last week-and continues to burn-after religious broadcaster Pat Robertson likened Alzheimer's disease to "a walking death" on his... Read more
AOL's home page today features a "You've Got..." with Ron Reagan discussing what he thinks his father, President Ronald Reagan, would want to be remembered for. It's a tie-in to his dad's centennial birthday on February 6 and Reagan's new book about the 40th President of the United States.
Of course, the "remembering" part is most appropriate... Read more
For too long, there has been a veil covering Alzheimer's disease. We can point fingers at stigma, fear, denial and misperceptions. These and other factors have kept this brain disorder out of the nation's consciousness. It's kept this disease from receiving the attention-and the funding-that it deserves. Now is the time to change all that. Now is... Read more
Each November since 2003, the Alzheimer's Foundation of America has held National Memory Screening Day. This year is no different: the event takes place November 16. But what is different this time around is the urgency and significance of the initiative.
I always get asked by reporters: why memory screening day? The answer is rather simple:... Read more
