Cure Alzheimer's Fund: Targeting Breakthrough Research

On May 19, 2011, Glenn Caffery, age 49, set out from Seaside, Ore., to run 3,312 miles across the country to Westerly, R.I. He is running to honor his father—Dick Caffery—whom he lost to Alzheimer’s disease in 2002, and to raise money to help find a cure for this devastating illness. “Watching my father suffer made me feel so helpless,” says Caffery. “Since he’s passed away, I’ve felt like I needed to do something to help, and running across the country felt like something.”