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Partners Come Together to Raise Awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease in Arizona
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Partners Come Together to Raise Awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease in Arizona

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Partners Come Together to Raise Awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease in Arizona

By Cara Christ|2017-03-28T08:41:09-07:00March 28th, 2017|Prevention|

Our Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease has joined forces with community partners to educate the public about Alzheimer's disease and the growing challenge in our state. We're starting a public awareness program called All In for Alzheimer's with our partners KTAR, the Alzheimer's Association, the Arizona Center on Aging, Hospice of the Valley, the [...]

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Caregivers for People with Alzheimer’s Disease are Critical
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Caregivers for People with Alzheimer’s Disease are Critical

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Caregivers for People with Alzheimer’s Disease are Critical

By Cara Christ|2017-02-10T09:49:06-07:00November 20th, 2015|Prevention|

There are rapidly expanding number of people with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias in Arizona, which challenges our health care and community-based service systems to develop innovative and effective ways to provide high-quality care and services. Currently more than 120,000 Arizonans age 65 and older have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, and an estimated 6,000 [...]