Lets help make a world without Alzheimer's

I remember few years ago before my grandmother died, at the age of 74, she’s been showing signs of memory loss. She keeps forgetting freshly learned information; she doesn’t even remember where she placed her pension check and a lot of times it gets lost. At first we thought it’s only because my grandmother had a blurred vision due to eye cataracts. But that didn’t happen one’s, so we kinda suspect that there’s something wrong with her. Aside from that we always observed changes in mood or behavior or rapid mood swings from calm to anger to tears for no apparent reason. Which thought at that time that she only missed her kids and grandchildren. It was really hard for us to see my grandmother in that kind of situation. We just accept the fact that she is suffering from what we called Alzheimer’s. She was already 71years old at that time when we started observing that kind of behavior or probably at little bit earlier, we thought that it is really part of aging. But I did some research about Alzheimer’s disease and according to a German physician named Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. that Alzheimer is a progressive and fatal brain disease. As many as 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time, and it is fatal. Today it is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.
That is why the Alzheimer’s Association will have conduct Alzheimer's Memory Walk, this is the nation’s largest event to raise consciousness and resources for Alzheimer care, support and research – and it calls on volunteers of all ages to become champions in the fight against Alzheimer's. There are walks in more than 600 communities. A typical Memory Walk is a 2-3 mile walk held on a weekend morning in the fall. By teaming up with the Alzheimer's Association, you can walk with a purpose – and move us closer to a world without Alzheimer's. Am sure together we can make a difference.