Left: Board member and Gala Chair Jon Henes, former NHL All-Star and Emmy Award winning broadcast analyst Ron Duguay and Gala MC Nigel Barker, photographer and TV personality Right: Eric Friedman, Board members Lori Oscher Friedman and Linda LaGorga Left: Young Leadership Honoree and Junior Committee President Laurel Crosby and Eric Burghoffer Right: Creative Leadership Honorees Sharon Washington, Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell and Susan Stroman, and David Hyde Pierce Left: Members of the Car [...]

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Carol Berne Senior Vice President of Development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I write this report I am reminded that we are six months along as an independent New York City charity focused on care and support for individuals and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. Sometimes I think we have been a stand-alone charity for years and at other times it seems that we are just starting on our journey. What I do know [...]

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The Forgetting: 15 Years Later James Campbell James Campbell is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn. He holds an MA in International Affairs from The New School and has written for various academic and human rights organizations, including the Anti-Trafficking Review. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  *Jed A. Levine moderates the discussion between actor and Alzheimer's advocate David Hyde Pierce, author Davi [...]

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It’s clear that even though our name has changed, the news media continues to rely on CaringKind, with our three decades of experience, as an important source of information about Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and caregiving. CaringKind was featured in an extraordinary New York Times 12-page special supplement on Sunday, May 1. Called “Fraying at the Edges,” the in-depth story by reporter N. R. Kleinfield followed CaringKind Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Stage Center client Geri Taylor and [...]

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> My father just turned sixty and recently retired. He doesn’t socialize as he did before, and I often can’t get him to go out, even to sit on a park bench. He has missed two of our lunch dates in the past three months. Recently I brought him to a gathering of his old friends. They were discussing the latest crisis in the news and he just sat there without saying anything. Afterward, he told me that he didn’t know what they had been talking about. What could be the cause of this? How should I h [...]

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