I will post this on the home page tomorrow, but I just received this e-mail from the Florida Southeast Chapter of the Alz. Assoc. Although this week's filming applies to Florida, the outreach to the Hispanic community applies to other parts of the country also. Please pass this information on to anyone you know of Hispanic descent who is dealing with Alzheimer's Disease. Thank you.
The Alzheimer's Association Southeast Florida Chapter and the National Chapter are working together to interview and film Spanish-speaking caregivers and persons with Alzheimer's of Cuban or Puerto Rican descent. They are looking for these specific nationalities as other chapters across the nation have also participated to involve Spanish-speakers of different nationalities. The project will be a filmed interview in Spanish discussing each person's experience with the disease.
This is a very important project to promote early detection of Alzheimer's to Spanish-speaking individuals. The Hispanic population is 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than the Caucasian population. For this reason, your volunteering to speak out and tell the community about your experience with the disease is critical and greatly appreciated!
The interview will be filmed this Friday, April 30th. It is currently to be filmed in Boca Raton, but if enough people from a certain area volunteer, we can move the filiming to accommodate the majority.
If you would like to participate, please e-mail me at ellen.may@alz.org, or call me at (800) 861-7826 x 205.