Leading the fight against dementia.
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- Founded:
- 1979
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- Desert Trek Mount Sinai to Red...
Egypt
21 November at 01:00 - Cycle Cuba
Cuba
24 January at 01:00 - Trek the Inca trail in Peru
Peru
08 May at 01:00 - Himalayan Trek Nepal
Nepal
20 November at 01:00
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Visit the AssessForCare page now for information on our National Dementia Conference in December http://www.assessforcare.com/
Alzheimer's Society
Please help test our website...
We are about to begin a website usability project to ensure that we are delivering online support and information services in the best possible way.
If you are interested in helping we would need an hour of your time on Monday 23 November in Central London.
There will be other studies cond...ucted throughout 2010, so please let us know if you’re interested but not available on this date.
If you’d like to participate or to find out more, please complete this form << http://bit.ly/4ysXTr >>
We will then contact you with more information.
London travel expenses will be reimbursed.
If you know someone who might be interested in participating, please pass them this information.
Thanks very much for your help with this.Read more
We are about to begin a website usability project to ensure that we are delivering online support and information services in the best possible way.
If you are interested in helping we would need an hour of your time on Monday 23 November in Central London.
There will be other studies cond...ucted throughout 2010, so please let us know if you’re interested but not available on this date.
If you’d like to participate or to find out more, please complete this form << http://bit.ly/4ysXTr >>
We will then contact you with more information.
London travel expenses will be reimbursed.
If you know someone who might be interested in participating, please pass them this information.
Thanks very much for your help with this.Read more
Source: spreadsheets.google.com
Gemma Taylor I have just joined this group and would like to here from anyone who cares for a person with korsakoffs syndrome which is dementia related to alcoholism
Carol Warrener I have great respect for the Alzheimer's Society, for the care, commitment and support they offer to all! I hope that one day there will be a cure for this horrible disease. The Jackie Pool Training is very useful and I recomend it to all who work in caring for older people!
Sandra Zammit Hello to everyone who was at the Dementia congress in Harrogate. What an amazing event.
Sarah Martin
I am a community carer and i help families take care of their loved ones in their own homes, i have just joined to try and do my bit to raise awareness of this very cruel disease, i take my hat off to all of you, I am fortunate that i can go home at the end of my working day or evening but emotionaly i see the pain for... a lot of families and i just wanted to say to everyone that you should all be very proud of yourselves and i send a hug to you all xxxRead more
Alzheimer's Society Alzheimer’s Society has been short-listed for Nationwide’s Charity of the Year. Please encourage anyone you know who works for them to vote for us. Every vote counts.
Source: www.youtube.com
Alzheimer's Society Chief Executive, Neil Hunt, makes a plea to the Nationwide staff to vote for us in Charity of the Year.
Barbara Smith
I will be teaching a continuing education course for caregivers at Salem State College in Massachusetts. Please share this information with anyone whom you think would benefit:
http://www.americantowns.com/ma/salem/ev
Jeannot Kensinger
Just discovered this site.
12 years since my husband diagnosis.
It seems like 50 years.
Starting to be violent now.
That is the frightening part.
Jessica Does anyone have any ideas of activities in which people with dementia/alzheimer's can do. Thanks x
John Robinson
If you're a carer for someone with Alzheimer's, you can get your questions on
issues such as claiming benefits, legal problems and the practical difficulties
of being a carer answered by experts from Carers Direct on the Carers Forum at
http://talk.nhs.uk/forums/51.aspx
Ruth Anderson In August 2008 we celebrated our 30th Wedding Anniversary, we didn't want present's so we asked all our guest's to give to the Alzheimers Society, a cause very close to our heart's. We lost a dear friend to this awful disease several years ago & recently my dad was diagnosed with Dementia, bless himxxx
Lorraine Purling Well done to everyone who ran the Great South Run in aid of Alzheimer's Society my two very dear friends ran the race in 1hr and 50mins and I'm so very proud of them for running in memory of my beloved dad "Donkey Bray"! xx
Julie John Suchet: my grief at discovering my wife Bonnie had Alzheimer's, and my guilt at putting her intSource: www.dailymail.co.ukIn February 2006, just after he accepted a job presenting Five News, John Suchet's 68-year-old wife Bonnie was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's
