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Lynn Casteel Harper: Suffering No More—Reimagining Dementia for a Post-COVID World

By Lynn Casteel Harper | July 7th, 2021

Image: Lynn Casteel Harper, by Travis Tanay Lynn Casteel Harper, author of On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear (Catapult, 2020) and minister of…

CDC Health Aging Program Alzheimer's Funding Biden's new budget includes a new agency, Advanced Research Projects Authority for Health for Alzheimer’s and other disease research.

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A Force of Dementia Groups Call on Congress to Triple Funding for CDC Alzheimer’s & Healthy Aging Program

By Alexandra Marvar | May 21st, 2021

Dementia advocacy groups including UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, American Heart Association, Volunteers of America, National Consumers League, American Public Health Association, Alzheimer’s Association, Trust for America’s Health…

A Conversation With Lauren Miller and Seth Rogen

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Lauren Miller and Seth Rogen Fight Alzheimer’s With Comedy

By Genevieve Glass | February 22nd, 2021

Hollywood power couple Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen are raising awareness about Alzheimer’s through comedy. On a more serious note, their…

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