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 ...
May 13, 2011
January 17, 2023
In 1994, David K. Johnson was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 59; he died 10 years later. His wife and primary caregiver, Susan, passed away from a heart attack in 1999, just five years into David’s struggle with the disease. The responsibility then fell on their children—Gregg, Bruce and ...
December 4, 2013
Getting to a Cure Why do we need a National Strategy? The cost of care for Alzheimer’s patients will overwhelm Medicare and Medicaid if not checked within the next few years. With funding from private and public sources heavily constrained, it is essential to make each research dollar count. There is enough ...
March 26, 2009
Mountaineer to Raise Awarness, Research Funding for Alzheimer’s on Road Back to Everest Boston – Embarking on a yearlong challenge that he hopes will end at the top of Mt. Everest, mountain climber Alan Arnette will take on a greater challenge along his journey, raising money for research and public awareness ...
August 20, 2009
Over the course of the last 5 years, all of us here at Cure Alzheimer’s Fund have been saying the same thing – Alzheimer’s is a national disaster, an encroaching tsunami that has the potential to bankrupt our entire health care system. And, if you’ve been following the news this week, ...
May 21, 2010
For the fourth year in a row, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has received a 4-star rating – the highest possible – from watchdog organization Charity Navigator. Charity Navigator rates over 8,000 nonprofits on many aspects of their accountability, transparency and fiscal responsibility. “Receiving four out of a possible four stars indicates that your organization adheres to ...
April 2, 2015
Dimebon looks clinically promising in Russian study, now revealed to increase substance in brain implicated in disease causation New findings, announced on July 15 at the Alzheimer’s Association 2009 International Convention on Alzheimer’s Disease (ICAD 2009) in Vienna, Austria, unexpectedly showed that the former hay fever drug Dimebon increases generation by ...
July 15, 2009
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund researcher, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, briefed Congress on the progress of the fast track effort to map genes for Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Rudy Tanzi presented to the Bipartisan, Bicameral Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s disease. “There are 16 million baby boomers predicted to contract this devastating disease. While significant ...
April 17, 2007
Massachusetts General Hospital and the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) has honored Cure Alzheimer’s Fund for its leadership, entrepreneurial philanthropy and investment in research projects that have the highest probability of slowing, stopping or reversing Alzheimer’s disease. The first annual Award for Philanthropic Innovation and Investment was presented to the ...
April 16, 2007
