We don’t normally post poetry, but this caught our attention the other day, and we wanted to share it with you. by Lawrence Raab Ralph Waldo Emerson, toward the endof his life, found the namesof familiar objects escaping him.He wanted to say something about a window,or a table, or a book on ...
August 25, 2009
My name is Jake, and I am the summer intern here at Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. Like most college kids, I tend to think that I know just about everything. On rare occasions (okay, on an extremely regular basis), my lack of omniscience manifests itself. However, I generally rationalize my ignorance ...
July 16, 2009
Selfless, loving, caring, and courageous. To the best of their ability, these four words encompass the kind of miraculous mother, grandmother and friend Nana is to everyone who crosses her path. Nana is a loving mother of three. The youngest being Mom. Her older two children suffered from cystic fibrosis and ...
September 29, 2017
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September 24, 2017
Jim and Ruhan Figliulo of Chicago know the extraordinary importance of research to find a cure for Alzheimer’s. Ruhan’s mother, Hediye Memishi, died in 2009 at age 65 after courageously battling the disease for 15 years. Upon meeting Dr. Sam Sisodia of the CureAlz Research Consortium, who directs the Center ...
December 13, 2016
Since 2013, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund has been supporting research by the distinguished neuroscientist and Down syndrome (DS) expert William Mobley, M.D., Ph.D., whose lab is based at the University of California, San Diego. Mobley is part of a team working to exploit a hypothesis that inhibiting a protein called monoacylglycerol ...
September 3, 2014
MARY ELIZABETH BERKSON, nee Martineau, age 55, of Chicago, IL, formerly of Norwalk, CT, died November 26, 2015 at the Silverado Orchard Park, Morton Grove, IL. Beloved wife of Matthew; loving mother of Julia; devoted daughter of the late Philip and Elizabeth Martineau; dear sister of Philip and the late ...
November 28, 2015
Hi! I have decided to raise money to help fight Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disease that causes problems with memory, reasoning, behavior and motor skills. The disease is ultimately fatal. In May 2015, my Poppy Howie died from this disease and for the past 2 years my ...
March 29, 2016
Patricia Ann Lepofsky, age 71, died in Montclair, New Jersey on Tuesday, October 27. The cause was early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Mrs. Lepofsky was a resident of Randolph for 27 years where she raised two daughters with her husband Mel. She graduated from Saddle Brook High School and received her nursing ...
November 10, 2015
