NICOLE BALTAZAR – National Volunteer Week 2024 Spotlight

April 17, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

We are endlessly grateful to our volunteers for giving their time to better the lives of those impacted by Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Our volunteers are truly the heart of the Alzheimer’s Association here in North Carolina. In honor of National Volunteer Week 2024, we’ll be spotlighting a different volunteer from our Chapter each day. Today […]

BILL TAYLOR – National Volunteer Week 2024 Spotlight

April 17, 2024.Reading time 5 minutes.

TAMMY MOSTELLER – National Volunteer Week 2024 Spotlight

April 17, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

ANTINETTA SUMMERS – National Volunteer Week 2024 Spotlight

April 17, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

Sad News for Alzheimer’s Association – Eastern North Carolina Chapter

April 3, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

It is with great sadness that I’m writing to share that our Eastern North Carolina Chapter Executive Director, Lisa Roberts, passed away April 2, 2024 after battling a long illness. Lisa began her career with the Alzheimer’s Association in 2010, and was instrumental in building relationships across the eastern half of North Carolina for the […]

Charlotte Memory Gala — Always an entertaining time

March 18, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

In addition to being widely recognized for the outstanding funds raised for the mission of the Alzheimer’s Association, the Charlotte Memory Gala is also known for an outstandingly good time. Live entertainment has been an important part of the event since it began. And we are excited to share information on the musical groups that […]

Bump – Set – Spike to defeat Alzheimer’s

March 11, 2024.Reading time 16 minutes.

“Spitfire” is one word that Lolita Tripp of Angier, North Carolina uses to describe her mother, Patricia (Pat) Demmel. It only takes a moment to realize that “like mother, like daughter.” A shared trait that, no doubt, serves Lolita well as a volleyball coach. On meeting, Lolita, you immediately notice her purple hair and smiling eyes. Her […]

Hope Rises from the Mountains of Western North Carolina

February 20, 2024.Reading time 15 minutes.

“She was very stoic in nature and quiet which is very unlike me,” chuckles June Ward about her mother Pauline. “Mom would much rather help her dad in the garden than spend time with her mom learning how to sew. She was very much a tomboy.” Pauline Plemmons Fowler was born in 1923, the daughter […]

Navigating the waters of Alzheimer’s disease with not one, but two parents

October 30, 2023.Reading time 15 minutes.

“Being an only child of both parents who have/had Alzheimer’s disease — and with one of them not living close by is stressful,” begins Jennifer Workman, an occupational therapist in Wilmington, North Carolina. “It’s like you are grieving. Your parents are still there, but because you know they are living with the disease, it’s just […]

Made With Love by Mom

October 30, 2023.Reading time 14 minutes.

Born in Puerto Rico, Josephine “Josie” Torres and her family moved to Brooklyn, New York. She had many jobs, at one of them she worked as a seamstress. “Mommy used to make our clothes,” offers Nashaba Pledger who lives in Pfafftown, North Carolina. “They each had a label that said ‘Made With Love by Mom’ […]