The Alzheimer’s Association announced that its 2023 Walk to End Alzheimer’s® – Charlotte has been ranked No. 18 in the nation out of the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2023 Top 30 Walks. The Charlotte Walk earned a spot among this ranking for the first time in 2016 becoming increasingly more successful since then. Participants in the 2023 […]
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Getting an early start on Walk to End Alzheimer’s means wearing your heart on your sleeve — and asking those you love to advance the research, care and support efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association with their donations. So this February, we want to show you some love. Everyone who is registered for a Walk to […]
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It has been an incredible year for our Walk to End Alzheimer’s events in North Carolina. Nearly 11,000 people have helped us raise $2.8 million so far! AND of our 17 walks across the state, 12 of them have already surpassed goal, even though we are still fundraising through the end of the year. Not […]
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“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 […]
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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’ […]
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About 18 years ago, Hickory resident, Beth Schlosser, made the decision to seek out her birth mother. “You know it was a pretty unique situation,” shares Beth. “On ‘Oprah,’ where there are great success stories; then you see on ‘Jerry Springer,’ there’s not so great connection stories.” Beth, whose twins were infants at the time, […]
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“Dealing with dementia was like a glove fitting my hand perfectly,” begins Angela Simpson of Kannapolis, North Carolina. “My profession as an activity director with Morningside of Concord at the time coupled with caring for my grandparents — who had three different types of dementia — 15 years ago, evoked my sense of passion for […]
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“My mom was one of those people that everybody had a place at the table. There were no strangers. My sisters, brothers and I could bring home anybody, and there was always room to make another place at the table. It’s the kind of person she was. Everybody was family,” shared Rosemarie Marshall, a new […]
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With a cheerful demeanor from her kitchen in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Brenda Sutton is busy preparing large quantities of homemade food over the next two weeks. While it may seem like a heavy lift to some, for Brenda, her enthusiasm is palpable as she works on this tasty fundraiser for her Walk to End Alzheimer’s […]
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Sometimes life gives us what we need before we know we need it. That was true for Kelly Millington, president of the New Bern Rotary Club, as his personal and professional worlds began to collide last year. “I had a grandmother that had issues with memory loss, but I had not experienced it much in […]
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