Custom «Persuasive speech: The Alzheimer's Association is Our Foothold» Essay Paper

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It is the honor to be a speaker today on this charity event. The world people live in needs changes and everyone sitting here can become a part of these changes helping today and making a valuable contribution for future generation.

5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease and prognosis for the nearest years is not optimistic (“Facts and Figures”).Alzheimer’s disease is a variety of dementia, which declares in trouble with language, memory and even body function loss. It is an incurable disease that ruins a brain. Moreover, it leads to death. Affected person often appears to be withdrawn from society and even from families. Millions of people worldwide suffer from this disease.

What should you undertake if somebody of your family member, relatives, friends or just people you know got such diagnosis? Not many can give an answer to this question. The Alzheimer’s Association gives an opportunity for affected people and their families to live with this disease and even make plan for future. For sure no one should suffer or appear in isolation. The Association for lots of people is the first sours of information and the first resource in assistance for sick on Alzheimer’s.

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The Alzheimer’s Association is voluntary, nonprofit, health organization, which provides support for affected people, takes care of them. Being found in 1980 it has more than 30 years experience (“About Us”). Today the Alzheimer’s Association is the largest among nonprofit, who funds disease-specialized researches for to find the cure. There are 75 local chapters around the country, which work with local communities, and help people on the place, organize support groups (“About Us”).

The mission of the Alzheimer's Association is: “To eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.” (“About Us”).

The mission is being accomplished using the variety of actions, which involve millions of people, those who need help and those who want to help others. The Association advocates, consults, teaches, and takes care. It does a lot to decrease the number of sick people and to find a treatment solution.

The Organization provides caregivers, families and affected people with maximum information and support. There is variety of proposed education programs, including around 20,000 seminars and e-learning lessons per year. Online information can be found on 17 languages (“About Us”). The step-by-step online guidance “Navigation for Caregivers and Alzheimer’s” was worked out (“Alzheimer's Navigator”). There are series of webinars on overcoming of psychological barrier and living with Alzheimer’s disease. On website, there is special section for kids and teens, which helps them in understanding a nature of the disease, teaches them how to behave and live in family with a sick person. The biggest specialized library in the United States, which is a free resource center, hosted in the Alzheimer’s Association. The library accumulates over 5,000 publications and multimedia, that increase knowledge about Alzheimer’s and help people in better understanding of mental affection (“Library”). Clinical trials can be advised through Alzheimer’s Association Trial Match, service, which helps to find opportunities based on personal criteria. A safety service MedicAlert and Alzheimer's Association Safe Return is strongly recommend families with affected people (“MedicAlert and Alzheimer's Association Safe Return”). If a person with Alzheimer’s wanders or need urgent medical assistance, the local chapters provide support to the family in need.

Support can be found on 24/7 professional helpline, which provides consulting services in 170 languages. It gets more than 250,000 calls per year (“About Us”). Highly trained stuff give confidential consultations, provides with reliable information n and psychological support on different issues, which families with a sick person face in everyday life. An online forum has registered members from different places of the United States. It is a kind of communication board, where people can share and get emotional support. A support can be found also in peer or professionally led groups in your area. The support groups are formed as for early-stage Alzheimer’s so for caregivers, family members, and children.

Local chapters by telephone, e-mail or in-person give all kinds of care consultation, help overcome difficulties, take decisions.Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiver Center gives help on any stage of disease. This Center provides with information on daily personal medical care, explains behaviors of affected and stages of the disease, organizes trainings to overcome the stress, helps to find caregivers or residential care if needed (“Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiver Center”).

Since the 1980, the Alzheimer's Association has been participated almost in all major scientific researches, which had different achievements in Alzheimer's disease understanding and treatment. Thanks to the Association’s grant research programs the understanding of Alzheimer ’s disease was advanced and progress in treatment was accelerated. Today the organization is a leader in a fight for a world without Alzheimer’s. It brings together researchers from the whole world in order to share information, up-to-date findings and achievements. Researches explore the causes, any complications connected with the disease and try to find the way to cure. This is being done through: Annual Alzheimer’s International Conference, Alzheimer’s and Dementia (scientific journal), Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (collegial group, which represents all areas of Alzheimer's disease investigations). The association does its best to organize a global scientific community to end with Alzheimer’s disease.

The Association succeeded in bringing people together to fight with challenges of Alzheimer's disease, it advocates a lot. It is a number one voice for Alzheimer’s disease at the state and federal level, fighting to make disease problem a national priority. The Annual Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum involves officials at all levels. After presentation to the Congress of the petition on making Alzheimer’s a national priority, which had 110,000 signatures, finally succeeded – 2011 President Obama signed the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, which mandated the national strategy to be worked out. Till today more than 130 public listening sessions were led nationwide concerning government strategic plan on Alzheimer’s disease. In May 2012, the first and so waited National Alzheimer's Plan was released by government. Budget for this plan realization is $50 million mostly for research funding during the fiscal year (“Advocacy”).

All these would not be possible without passionate volunteers and sponsors. The Association is the leader in Alzheimer’s disease research. These researches help in better understanding of disease and thanks to this the Association has a unique possibility to work out the best programs on care, give guidance, advices and recommendations to caregivers, to families and relatives, to affected and just to people in need.

The Alzheimer's Association eagerly builds relationships with all companies who share goals and interested in raising awareness and continuing researches of Alzheimer's disease. Raised funds are allocated in an ethical and responsible manner. In respect to the right of donors to know how money were spent periodical reports are provided. More than 70% of budget is stipulated on program activities and remaining funds go to administrative expenses (“About Us”).

Funding of the Alzheimer’s Association comes from individuals, corporate donors and organizations, who help to implement the mission. They may belong to business, government institutions or any other foundation. Anyone can help us. The mission can be accelerated exactly thanks to assistance of a common person. Start from a little step. If somebody shares the mission – display the commitment by having the Association symbol on clothes, pens, notebooks etc. Some flyers for this can be found on the organization’s website. Exchange these flyers to colleagues for a small donation in 5 dollars, for example. Walk to End is another simple possibility to get involved into the movement against Alzheimer’s disease. It is annually organized event condemned to raise awareness on the disease, mobilize volunteers and collect money for future projects and plans. Join it. Find a possibility to donate yourself or accumulate donors.

A part of Charles Cole’s testimony clearly shows the necessity to fight against Alzheimer’s disease: "I remember the day I walked in the door, looked into her eyes and said, 'Hi Mom.' She looked back with that cold dark stare, and she didn't know who I was. She didn't know me." (“Why I Got Involved”)

Health care protection is a major issue in the life of everyone. When anyone sees his mother, father or loved person suffering from Alzheimer’s, an idea of involvement in anti Alzheimer’s disease movement comes to mind. One of eight Americans has Alzheimer's disease. It is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Do not wait when disease comes to your family. Donate now to see the world without Alzheimer’s.

The Alzheimer's Association has huge, more than 30 years, successful experience based on practice. It has network of specialized services around the country, which with mutual efforts of stuff already supported more than a million people. The Association unites researchers around the world, who already made a big contribution in understanding the causes and finding ways of treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Not everything is done jet. There is much more to do the nearest years. There are new programs to be implemented and there is need in continuation the old ones. Be sure giving a support to others the Alzheimer's Association knows what and how to do. Moreover, with every day of its work the moment of Alzheimer's disease cure invention is coming closer. On the other hand, one man can not win a war, therefore any help would be useful, especially financial support. Only together nation change the future. Donate now to see the world without Alzheimer's disease.