Press Releases

UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Chairman and Co-Founder to Participate on Connected Living Hill Panel Focused on Expanding the Accessibility of Mobile Technology for Older Americans

May 26, 2016

As part of an esteemed group of panelists, including members of Congress and mobile and senior care executives, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s co-founder and Chairman George Vradenburg will speak about how technology and mobile applications can spur meaningful social interaction and connectivity for aging Americans, especially those living with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers.

Karen Segal Adds Prominent Voice to UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Board of Directors

May 25, 2016

Adding to its cadre of influential and highly-regarded Alzheimer’s leaders, today UsAgainstAlzheimer’s (UsA2) announced that Karen Segal, who founded the North Shore Medical Research Junior Board for Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago in 1995, will be joining its board of directors.

During convening, WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s launches its bold We Won’t Wait campaign to highlight the economic injustice of the disease on women

May 12, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC, May 13, 2016—WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s – an UsAgainstAlzheimer’s network and a global nonprofit organization that advocates for women – today announced the launch of its bold We Won’t Wait campaign to bring to light the economic injustice that women face when they experience Alzheimer’s either as the patient or the caregiver. The campaign is the first-ever effort to define Alzheimer’s as both an economic as well as a health-related injustice against women, and it is the organization’s next phase in its successful work over the last four years fighting for a cure through a woman’s lens.

Jason Resendez, Director of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Latino Network, Appointed to AT&T’s Advisory Panel on Access and Aging

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2016—Today, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s announced that Jason Resendez, Director of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Latino Network and the LatinosAgainstAlzheimer’s Coalition, will join AT&T’s Advisory Panel on Access and Aging as an external advisor.

UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Leadership to be Featured Guests on Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio Show Hosted by Lori La Bey

April 26, 2016

UsAgainstAlzheimer’s (UsA2) co-founders, George and Trish Vradenburg, as well as UsA2 network leads Jill Lesser (WomenAgainstAlzheimer’s), Jason Resendez (LatinosAgainstAlzheimer’s), Drew Holzapfel (ResearchersAgainstAlzheimer’s) and Virginia Biggar (ClergyAgainstAlzheimer’s) will be guests on today’s Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio show, hosted by Lori La Bey, at 2 pm EST.

Why 2020?

UsAgainstAlzheimer’s has retained its goal of stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020 rather than endorsing the goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease that calls for preventing and effectively treating the disease by 2025. While we support the national plan and its goals, we believe, as most every family touched by Alzheimer’s disease believes, that preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer's by 2025 is simply too long a wait for concrete progress. There are promising avenues of drug discovery and development that will, if successful, deliver a means of slowing or deferring Alzheimer's symptoms by 2020. By voicing the urgency felt by so many families, we will pressure researchers and industry to do all in their power to make that happen.