Charity Ratings: How To Be A Good Consumer Of Information And Resources Lou-Ellen Barkan Founding Director -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CaringKind, like all not for profits (NFPs), submits data to several ratings organizations. This brief summary should serve to make it easier for you to understand and analyze what you are seeing. On December 1, 2015 CaringKind chose to discontinue our affiliation agreement with the Chicago based  Alzheimer [...]

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Caregiver Pilot Programs in Cultural Institutions Meredith Wong, Manager of Connect2culture® -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A diagnosis of dementia not only changes the life of the person living with the disease, it has a dramatic impact on friends and family. The person with dementia contends with behavioral and personality shifts, cognitive, spatial and perceptual changes and other symptoms that affect their ability to function. While both ex [...]

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Give Today! [https://app.fundmetric.com/5nF4IBNUQRMq] It is with tremendous gratitude that I invite you to join my family as we honor and recognize the bravest members of the CaringKind family – the caregiver. Our father passed away from complications due to Alzheimer’s in October 2018 when he was only 70 years old. Alzheimer’s not only robbed him of his beautiful life with our family, but it stole his professional livelihood – that of a congregational Rabbi in his beloved New York City where [...]

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Giving by Check Please make checks payable to CaringKind and mail to: 360 Lexington Avenue, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online/Credit Card [Click here](/give) to Donate online or call 646-744-2900. We accept MasterCard, Visa, and American Express. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giving by Check Please make checks payable to CaringKind and mail to: 360 Lexingt [...]

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Daylight Savings Time and Its Effects on Wandering Elizabeth Bravo Santiago, Director of Wanderer's Safety Program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The transition from Standard to Daylight Savings Time is disruptive for many of us. For those with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, the transition can create confusion, making the caregiver’s difficult job even harder. And during these longer days, when the weather is warm, there is greater [...]

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