Welcome to the News Room of the Alzheimer's Association – Western and Central Washington State Chapter. Please feel free to use any of the information on this site in your story. We are a non-profit endeavoring to provide services to those afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, and their families and caregivers. Whenever appropriate we would appreciate you including the number for our HELPLINE: 800.272.3900.
If you need additional information, or would like to interview an expert for a feature or a breaking story, please contact: Keri Pollock, Communications Director, Telephone: 206.363.5500, ext.245, Fax: 206.363.5700, Email: keri.pollock@alz.org
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News Releases
- New Effort Seeks to Improve Health Care for Washington State’s Most Vulnerable Patients (06/05/2013)
- Navigation: Pathways to Help and Hope - Alzheimer’s Association Brings Early Stage Memory Loss Forum to Bellevue (05/14/2013)
- Study: Dying with dementia on rise (Seattle Times, 03/18/2013)
- Study: Dementia tops cancer, heart disease in cost (Seattle Times, 03/04/2013)
- The Gift of Alzheimer’s (AgeWise King County, March 2013)
- Alive and Thankful: Living with early-onset Alzheimer’s (KING 5 Television, 12/28/2013)
- Alzheimer’s and Dementia Mental Health Advance Directive is now available
- Walking and Hiking with Early Stage Memory Loss (Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Perspectives Fall 2012)
- A Warrior Against Alzheimer’s (Northwest Prime Time News, November 2012)
- Port Orchard family battles Alzheimer's gene with optimism and openness (Kitsap Sun, Sept. 23, 2012)
- Too soon to forget (Yakima Herald-Republic, Sept. 7, 2012)
- Laughter and Forgetting (Seattle Met magazine, August 2012)
- Scammers use memory loss to prey on the elderly (4/20/2012)
- Creativity and Dementia (AgeWise King County, 4/2012)
- “Art, Creativity & Dementia” by Janelle S. Taylor, PhD (July/August “Bulletin” Vol. 90 No. 4 Reprinted with permission of the King County Medical Society)
- Alzheimer’s Association Appoints New Chapter President and CEO (6/10/2011)
- Senior Programs Slashed in Final State Budget (6/01/2011)
- Art program to brighten life for those with dementia (4/06/2011)
- Queen Anne fundraiser brings Alzheimer's issue to new audience (3/30/2011)
- Chapter Thanks Outgoing Board Member for Service (2/22/2011)
