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 The annual Early-Stage Memory
Disorders Forum will be held on Friday, May 2, 2008. It
will return to the Roosevelt Hotel, located at Madison
Avenue and East 45th Street in Manhattan. New to this
year’s event will be workshops specifically designed for
different audiences: early-stage people, professionals and
family members. According to the Planning Committee,
experience has shown that each group comes to an issue
with its own set of needs and its own idea of what it wants
to take away.
Now in its eighth year, the Early-Stage Memory
Disorders Forum remains dedicated to expanding
Alzheimer’s awareness and diminishing the stigma
associated with the disease. The event provides a
venue where early-stage people can come together to network
with each other and have their concerns be heard by
caregivers and the rest of the Alzheimer’s community.
The theme of this year’s Forum is For the Record: Sharing
the Past, Living the Present. It will explore the value of preserving
the past, especially in light of a progressive
memory disorder, and finding ways in which to successfully
cope with the present.
The Planning Committee is pleased to announce that
Anne Basting, creator of TimeSlips, and principal investigator
for the StoryCorps Memory Loss Initiative research
project, has agreed to host the plenary session. Please
see my interview with Dr. Basting below. She will be
joined by Dina Zempsky, Senior Outreach Coordinator for
the StoryCorps project. The audience will have the
opportunity to listen to people whose stories have been
captured on broadcast-quality CD through their
participation in this unique and creative effort.
The 8th Annual Forum will also feature five different
workshops in the morning and five workshops in the
afternoon. Each workshop will be designated as being
appropriate for early-stage people or professionals. Family
members and friends may choose from either category.
Additionally, there will be a workshop in Spanish in both
the morning and the afternoon.
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 to become a
Forum exhibitor, please call 646-744-2994, or visit the following web links.
— Susan Goldfein
Early-Stage Forum Coordinator
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