WAM Awarded Prestigious Many Faces of Dementia Trailblazer Award

Mar 5, 2020 | News, News Featured

WAM is honored to have been recognized with the Many Faces of Dementia Trailblazer Award at the 10th biennial Many Faces of Dementia conference—presented by Alzheimer’s Los Angeles, in partnership with USC—held in Los Angeles in February. WAM’s Director of...

Why I Raise Money For WAM

Mar 4, 2020 | News

by Cindy Persky, R.N My “why” to advocate for more research money to go towards the Woman’s Alzheimer’s Movement is pretty simple. Two of my grandmas and my mother-in-law all died of Alzheimer’s. Now my father has early onset Alzheimer’s. My amazing mom is...

WAM and Maria Shriver Proud to Announce Recipients of 2019 WAM Research Grants

Mar 2, 2020 | News, News Featured

On Tuesday, March 3, 2020, Maria Shriver and the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement (WAM) announced the names of the 8 recipients of $1 million in WAM Research Grants. This is the 4th year that WAM has funded women-based Alzheimer’s research at leading...

WAM Hits the Ground Running in 2020

Jan 16, 2020 | News, News Featured

Happy New Year — and welcome to the new subscribers who’ve joined our WAM community. We hope you are feeling recharged after the holidays. We at the WAM Newsletter are starting out the new year with a bang. First, we participated in the California...

2020 Election: Are Caregivers a Voting Bloc?

Dec 26, 2019 | News, News Featured

WAM Raises Awareness at Purple Event in Dallas

Nov 15, 2019 | News

Dallas, Texas, November 13: “A Purple Event”: Thanks to WAM Board member, Jan Miller, and our amazing friends and Purple Event co-hosts, Moll Anderson and Sue Gragg, WAM had a beautiful and successful fundraiser and awareness-raising dinner with top women...