Alzheimer's Association

Description

How we help

We enhance care and support

• We have local chapters across the nation, providing services within each community.
• Our professionally staffed 24/7 Helpline (1.800.272.3900) offers information and advice to more than 250,000 callers each year and provides translation services in more than 170 languages.
• We offer more than 4,500 support groups and connect thousands of people across the globe through our online message boards.
• We deliver 20,000 education programs annually and offer online information in 17 languages.
• We house the Alzheimer's Association Green-Field Library, the nation's largest library devoted to increasing knowledge about Alzheimer's and related dementias.
• Our safety services, Comfort Zone and MedicAlert + Alzheimer's Association Safe Return , provide location management for people with Alzheimer's who wander.
• Our annual Walk to End Alzheimer's is the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research.

We advance research

• We advance the understanding of Alzheimer's through our peer-reviewed research grant program.
• We help people find clinical trials through our free service, Alzheimer's Association TrialMatch.
• Our annual Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) brings together thousands of researchers to share information and findings.
• Our scientific journal, Alzheimer's & Dementia, provides a single publication for the global scientific community to share its diverse knowledge.
• Our professional society, Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART), is the only professional society designed exclusively for individuals dedicated to Alzheimer's and dementia science.

We advocate

• We develop policy resources, including Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, to educate decision makers on the economic and emotional toll that Alzheimer's takes on families and the nation.
• Our advocates engage elected officials at all levels of government and participate in our annual Alzheimer's Association Advocacy Forum, a march on Capitol Hill to meet with elected representatives.
• With our chapters, we work to pass legislation at the federal, state and local level.