ALZHEIMER'S BLOG:

World Alzheimer’s Day: Celebrating the Transforming Mind
Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 6:30 p.m. –8:00 p.m.

Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Lou-Ellen Barkan, President and CEO, Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter, has both personal and professional experience with Alzheimer’s disease and the burdens of caregiving. She knows firsthand the powerful effect of creative and interactive experiences for those with dementia and their caregivers. The organization’s work in the arts community demonstrates that cultural arts programs play a unique role, allowing community participation in a safe environment where no one is judged, and where the sharing of ideas and feelings is possible even when language and cognition are compromised.

Cathie Borrie, author (assisted by Melia McClure, author and actor), presents "You say goodbye and I say hello." Cathie Borrie spent seven years caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's. Recording many of their conversations, she discovered in her mother an astonishing poetic sensibility, insight, and humor that she had not expected would be part of the Alzheimer’s experience. In the same way that Meet Me at MoMA provides a forum for dialogue through looking at art, Cathie, by learning to deeply listen, found a way to provide a blank canvas upon which her mother was free to create the story of her shifting mind. It is a story that dismisses once and for all negative stereotypes about the disease, recasting the long goodbye of Alzheimer’s as the long hello of profound and new understandings.

Admission is free. Space is limited and preregistration is required. For more information or to register, please call (212) 333-6570.


Here is a link if you would like to help me with my Alzheimer's Memory Walk
http://MemoryWalk2010.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=336218&u=336218-268736349&e=3655472672

And here is a film showing Dad as his Alzheimer's progressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dWlsgM9LA&feature=player_embedded

Here is a link if you would like to get my book http://www.amazon.com/Alzheimers-Caretakers-Journal-Marie-Fostino/dp/1596635622

Sincerely,
Marie Fostino
Alzheimer's A Caretakers Journal
Seaboard Press An Imprint of James A Rock Pub., Co.
www.mariefostino.com
www.mariefostino.blogspot.com