Alzheimer's is the 7th leading cause of death in the USA and, unfortunately, expected to move up in ranking because of our aging population. Right now someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease -- the most common form of dementia -- every 70 seconds. There are 5.3 million people with Alzheimer's, a disease that currently cost caregivers and employers and taxpayers $172 billion.
Consider this comparison of Alzheimer's to other diseases:
Source: Alzheimer's AssociationHere's a video I made of this morning for work:
9 comments:
Awesome video Anne! The music you chose is perfect and made me all weepy...which is what made it so perfect for this.
On the other hand, the bare butts made me laugh :-)
I love the video. My Gram suffers from this horrid disease and it breaks my heart. My advice for anyone going through it with a family member is to separate who the person is now with who they were. It is so hard to watch- and an unfair betrayal of my Gram's mind.
Thanks for sharing the video - made me smile to see so many people coming together for a cause.
My kids keep telling me I have Alzheimer's, next year I think I should make them do the walk to support me :). That's so great you went and did that for an great cause. You have such a huge heart!!
You made the right thing for a great cause. Beautiful video.
Wow, very emotional and inspiring video. I noticed a huge diversity in the people from Asian to African American to white. And age too. What a perfect way to get a bunch of people together to really care and support something worthy. Glad to see you are part of this. It's good to step out of the running scene some times. Thanks for posting!
Great video. Thanks for sharing those statistics too!
Louise says...Perfect! Even the "Wide Ends" made it!
Great video, thanks for sharing this...very touching..
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