Living With Alzheimer’s November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and National Family Caregivers Month. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 5.8 million Americans have Alzheimer’s or another type of dementia, and 16 million friends and family members are caring for them. BY KATHIE STAMPS • COURTESY PHOTOS
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ore than 90,000 people with Alzheimer’s reside within the 125 counties served by the Greater Kentucky and Southern Indiana chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. Services provided by the chapter include training for professional caregivers, free support groups, and plenty of available resources for patients and caregivers alike to learn and exchange coping skills. In fiscal year 2018, the regional chapter raised $1.4 million through 9,000 participants in 12 “Walk to End Alzheimer’s” events. The chapter’s education team offered 800 programs and monthly support groups, including the Memory Café. The organization engaged 15,000 local advocates, many of whom also worked on the national level to help increase federal funding of Alzheimer’s research at the National Institutes of Health.
Bari Lewis, Alzheimer’s Association, Greater Kentucky & Southern Indiana chapter director of community outreach
"Our current reach into this vulnerable population in Kentucky is very limited,” said Bari Lewis, director of community outreach for the regional chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. “That means here in Louisville, and all across the state, we must broaden that reach by asking those who have a passion for the cause to join us as volunteer members.”
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Volunteers are appreciated in all areas of the nonprofit group, from office help and fundraising efforts to becoming leaders of support groups and educational programs. “We cannot win this fight alone. We need you,” Lewis said. While there is not yet a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, “we do seem to understand more every day how lifestyle choices can stave off cognitive decline and sometimes delay the triggers that lead to the onset of Alzheimer’s,” she said. “The best thing you can do for yourself and your loved ones is to take care of yourself intellectually, physically and nutritionally.”
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RESOURCES: ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION, GREATER KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA CHAPTER, ALZ.ORG/KYIN; UOFL TRAGER INSTITUTE, TRAGERINSTITUTE.ORG; BAPTIST HEALTH MILESTONE WELLNESS CENTER, BAPTISTMILESTONE.COM
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