26 ~ North Shore News — Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Take a break for those with At

MORE than 30 North Vancouver and West

_ Vancouver small businesses, restaurants, pubs,
trust companies, community centres, neigh-

bourhood block watches, care facilities, fami-

lies and neighbours will be pouring free coffee

tomorrow from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

All they ask is a donation to the Alzheimer Society of
B.C. for every cup poured.
Here are some places you can drop in tor a coffee break
on Thursday and make a difference: :
West Vancouver
Canada Trust, 1645 Marine Dr.;
@ Capilano Care Centre, 525 Clyde Ave:
@ Dundarave Cafe, 2427 Marine Dr.;
@ Perscoat Lane Fish and Chips, 1863 Marine Dr.;
i West Vancouver Seniors’ Centre, 695 W. 21st St.
“North Vancouver -
> fi Cedarview Lodge, 1200 Cedar Village Close;
re Lonsdale Medical and Dental Building, 1916 Lonsdale
AVES
Lonsdale Quay, outdoor { fountain;
@ North Shere Credit Union, 3059 Edgemont Blvd;
“i Kiwanis Care Centre, 2444 Burr Place;

 S Raven Neighbourhood Fub, 1060 Deep Cove Rd;

9 St. Martin’s Church; 854 Frederick Road.
For more information please contact: Bronwyn Jones,
Alzheimer Regional Rep, North Shore/Sunshine Coast
» 926-8233 or Kerri Sutherland, Coffee Break volunteer
‘coordinator, 987-2325.
; ; 9090

The North Shore and Alzheimer’s disease:
“i Fourteen per cent of the North Shore's population is over
..65 — that’s one of thé highest in any health region in the
province. Alzheimer’s disease increases with age. .
Demand for services is huge on the North Shore:
8 ‘The wait list for long-term care facilities recently was
eight months.to four years...
8 For aduit day care (for people still living at home in order
"to give’ their. caregivers a few hours “break) in North
Vancouver the wait is four to five months.
& Funds raised on the North Shore at Coffee Break events stay on
the North Shore to support much-needed local programs and ser-
vices for caregivers and people with dementia. The Alzheimer

Sociery. of B. Cc. receives no government support for, on- Boing ;

: operations.

. Please j join with US at:
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6:00 p.m. . :
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6:00 ; p.m.

Break” fundraiser.

& The North Shore has one of the most active Alzheimer support
groups and has now formed an Action Group committed to mak-
ing a difference by making changes i in the present health-care sys-
tem. It is the only such caregivers’ action group in 8. c.

Four scary stats:

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& Almost 50% of people over 85 have immeversible and fatal demen-
tia (of which AD is the leading form). Newly published facts’ by
SFU’s G erontology Research Centre reports, the seniors popula-:
tion in B.C. is living longer, and i increasing faster. than anywhere
else in B.C... :
W Seventy per cent of, exhausted caregiv. ers, caring for someone ‘at
home, die before the person with Alzheimer’s disease.

@ UBC's Alzheimer Research Centre i is seeing more People diag:
nosed in their 50s. :

@ Half of us know someone with AD. One -quarero of u us see AD
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