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Must Watch: On May 19, 2016 Genius of Caring and UsAgainstAlzheimer's presented a new portrait video of Kamaria Moore, 31 years old and newly married. She’s also the primary caregiver to her mother Mary, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s nearly two years ago at age 58. The interactive portrait gets to know  Kamaria and Mary. Watch and share the video here. 

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A May 20, 2016 Associated Press article (via Washington Times) shared the stories of Alzheimer’s caregivers from Missouri. According to the article, “Fox’s wife, Cindy Fox, hasn’t spoken in 10 months. She used to teach high school and college English classes until four years ago when she began to forget the language that was so dear to her. Sixty-eight-year-old Cindy Fox was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a brain condition in which language capabilities become impaired, which then evolved into Alzheimer’s. The doctors said it would get worse, and there were no treatments or medication that could prevent or stall it.”

A May 19, 2016 Huffington Post article reported on Maria Shriver’s efforts to highlight the impact of Alzheimer's on women. According to the article, “Maria Shriver wants to spread this message far and wide — especially to women. The disease hits women hardest: They make up almost two-thirds of the Alzheimer’s population in the U.S., and in their 60s, they’re about twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as breast cancer.”

A May 17, 2016 Huffington Post opinion piece by Yvonne Latty highlighted the “lonely road for Latinos with Alzheimer’s.” According to Latty, “African Americans and Latinos are more likely than whites to have Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Yet minorities suffering with Alzheimer’s disease and their families are all but ignored when the media discusses the disease…My mother was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease after years of decline that I did not connect with the disease. I had no idea that Latinos are one half time more likely than whites to develop the condition and African Americans are two times more likely. That’s partly because our stories are not really told in the mainstream media. There are no front-page stories or TV news magazine pieces.” Yvonne Latty is Director of the Reporting the Nation/New York in Multimedia graduate programs at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute.