The 7th Annual Early Stage Memory Disorders Forum will be held on
Wednesday,April 11, 2007 in a brand new venue: The Roosevelt Hotel, located
at Madison Avenue and East 45th Street in Manhattan. This site
offers easier access to the Forum location, and a calmer, more intimate
environment for the event.
The theme of this year’s
Forum is Taking A Closer Look:
Reflections on Living with Early Stage
Memory Disorders. It will explore
the experience of Alzheimer’s
disease and related disorders
from the perspective of the person
who has been diagnosed.
The Planning Committee is pleased to
announce that David Shenk, author of The
Forgetting—Alzheimer’s: Portrait of an Epidemic,
has agreed to be the keynote speaker. Mr.
Shenk, a well-known non-fiction author, has
indeed taken a closer look at life with a progressive
memory disorder in this richly
informative and very sensitive book.
 A special highlight of this year’s Forum will
be the participation of StoryCorps. Founded
in 2003, StoryCorps is a national project to
instruct and inspire ordinary people to record
each others’ stories in sound. Similar to a
WPA project of the ’30s, these recorded
archives will be housed at the American
Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
(You might have seen their recording booths
in Grand Central Station and at the World
Trade Center site.) Of particular interest to
our Forum is that in 2006, StoryCorps
launched a special Memory Loss Initiative to
reach out to people affected by memory loss
and to support and encourage them to share
their stories. StoryCorps facilitators will be on
hand at this year’s event.
The 7th Annual Forum will also feature a
plenary session which will explore the personal
challenges people with the diagnosis
face every day and afford the audience an
opportunity to share the support group experience.
There will be a medical session featuring
prominent experts in the field of research
and treatment. Additionally, participants will
be able to choose from six different workshops,
including one in Spanish.
The all-day event will be held from 9:00 am
to 3:30 pm and includes a continental breakfast
and a luncheon. For more information, to
register or become a Forum exhibitor, please call 646-744-2997 or click here to register online.
— Susan Goldfein
Early Stage Forum Coordinator
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