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What are you doing Friday, May 17 or Saturday, May 18? Could you spare a few hours to volunteer for the 11th annual Forget Me Not Days®?
Established in 2003 by national life and health insurer Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Forget Me Not Days benefits Alzheimer’s Association® chapters nationwide. On May 17 and 18, this fundraiser will bring volunteers as well as Bankers Life agents and employees to streets and storefronts as a way to raise awareness of and funds for Alzheimer’s disease. Bankers Life has helped raise more than $2.9 million for the Alzheimer’s Association through Forget Me Not Days as well as through corporate donations.

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What are you doing Friday, May 17 or Saturday, May 18? Could you spare a few hours to volunteer for the 11th annual Forget Me Not Days®?
Established in 2003 by national life and health insurer Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Forget Me Not Days benefits Alzheimer’s Association® chapters nationwide. On May 17 and 18, this fundraiser will bring volunteers as well as Bankers Life agents and employees to streets and storefronts as a way to raise awareness of and funds for Alzheimer’s disease. Bankers Life has helped raise more than $2.9 million for the Alzheimer’s Association through Forget Me Not Days as well as through corporate donations.
Volunteers will work with their local Alzheimer’s Association office to learn where they will be stationed, receiving gardening aprons and canisters to collect donations on the day of the event. In exchange for donations, volunteers will hand out specially marked packets of Forget-Me-Not flower seeds, courtesy of Bankers Life. Seed packets list the Association’s 24/7 toll-free Helpline, 800.272.3900, as well as its website. One hundred percent of donations will support Alzheimer’s care, support and research.
We need your help to fight Alzheimer’s, the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
Click here to learn more or sign up as a volunteer.
About Bankers Life and Casualty Company

Bankers Life and Casualty Company agents and employees witness firsthand the impact Alzheimer’s disease has on customers, their families and their caregivers. This was the impetus to the establishment of Forget Me Not Days, its nationwide fundraising campaign to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. To learn more about the company and the annual fundraiser, go toforgetmenotdays.com.

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Gatherings for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s focus on the positive

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Some people with early-stage Alzheimer’s meet on a regular basis to socialize and to focus on what they can do rather than what it no longer within their reach. This spring, the Alzheimer’s Association will help expand similar groups nationwide for people in the early stages of the disease.
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Hang backstage with Seth Rogen and benefit the Alzheimer’s Association

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Alzheimer’s Association Champion Seth Rogen recently launched an online contest for a chance to hang out with him and other A-list celebrities backstage at the annual Hilarity for Charity event in Los Angeles on April 25 — and to spend the next day on the set of his upcoming film Townies. Donate $10 or more to the Hilarity for Charity Fund by April 16 to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association and be automatically entered to win.
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Alzheimer’s Association applauds White House brain mapping initiative

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Harry Johns, president and CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association, participated in an event at the White House on the Obama administration’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative referenced during the State of the Union. “The Alzheimer’s Association applauds the president for underscoring the critical need for research to better understand the mysteries of the brain,” Johns said.
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Alzheimer’s Association applauds White House brain mapping initiative

Today, Harry Johns, president and CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association, participated in an event at the White House on the Obama administration’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative referenced during the State of the Union.

A large-scale effort to map brain activity is important in advancing the understanding of complex diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s Association is the world’s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer’s care, support and research and looks forward to working with the administration on this ambitious new project and continuing to work with the administration to implement the first ever National Alzheimer’s Plan.

“The Alzheimer’s Association applauds the president for underscoring the critical need for research to better understand the mysteries of the brain,” said Johns, a member of the National Alzheimer’s Plan Advisory Committee.

The Alzheimer’s Association anticipates fundamental insights from the brain mapping initiative and continues to pursue full implementation of the National Alzheimer’s Plan and the aggressive timeline set by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s disease by 2025.

According to Alzheimer’s Association 2013 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, the total payments for health and long-term care services for people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias will total $203 billion in 2013, the lion’s share of which will be borne by Medicare and Medicaid with combined costs of $142 billion. Despite these staggering figures today, by 2050 total costs will increase 500 percent to $1.2 trillion (in today’s dollars). v

The Association is committed to accelerating progress of new treatments, preventions and, ultimately, a cure. As the largest non-profit funder, the Alzheimer’s Association funds projects like the worldwide Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), a public-private research project led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and funded with private sector support.

“The federal government has realized incredible success when it invests in tackling challenges of this magnitude, and Alzheimer’s will be no different. We are on the doorstep to changing the trajectory of this disease and must pursue every avenue while fully funding the implementation of the National Alzheimer’s Plan,” said Johns.

Alzheimer’s Association
The Alzheimer’s Association is the world’s leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s. For more information, visit www.alz.org.

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