The Alzheimer Glowers invite you to... "Come glow with us"...
"Glow-4" - 8 PM Thursday October 1st 2009
We only have less that a month to spread the word to light the lights and bring awareness to the struggles of Primary Care Givers across Canada, in the U.S. and around the world....
“Come Glow with Us” 2009
We take everything from the TV remote control to jet engines to satellites for granted today. We reap the benefits of MRI’s, pacemakers, coronary bypass surgery, chemo therapy, even robotic surgery.
We forget the reason we have all this is because of our seniors.
Seniors' tax dollars and efforts are responsible for our freedoms, our education, our quality of life and the majority of technology and medical advancements we reap the benefits of today.
They have earned the right to be treated with compassion, dignity and respect.
Thousands of unpaid primary caregivers are working, under the radar, to make that happen.
We cannot do it alone.
We need your support.
Come Glow with us.
On October 1st - please place one string of Christmas lights in a prominent spot. Turn them on at
Shine a light on caregiving.
Show us your support.
Then log on to www.freewebs.com/alzheimerglowers and sign our guest book with your first name and town so we can show the world that
We have become accustomed to living in a throw away society. We throw away everything from electronics to food wrappers. By sticking seniors in institutions
- Grandiosely called 'long term care facilities' (LTCF's) - we are throwing away our past. We are throwing away 'our' futures.
Help us put a stop to this practice. Help us give our seniors the right to remain in their home, if they choose - Happy and supported. Help us make the LTCF's a place we would all like to live
- Not someplace where you are drugged to keep you quiet until you die.
Just as the earth is now paying for the trash build up - society will pay the the price for warehousing ill seniors instead of looking at alternatives, as the day will come when this will be our future.
Background:
The Come Glow with Us campaign was started by two primary caregivers one in
They began the Come Glow with Us campaign in 2006 commemorating the 100th anniversary of Doctor Alois Alzheimer's discovery of the plaques and tangles of Alzheimer's disease.
The goal: to shine a light on the struggles all primary caregivers face.
This will be the third year for the campaign, which has gone global. In the past two years lights have been lit in
Very little has changed in this nation in those three years. Unpaid primary caregivers continue to fill the ever widening gap between government sponsored institutions and independent living.
We continue to work 24/7 - 365 days a year. We are still subjected to shortened careers, balancing minor children, forfeiting retirement funds, ill health, stress, isolation, depression, poverty and are still as invisible as the ill senior we are trying to help.
We want to be seen.
You can make that happen.
October 1st - 8 pm, Come Glow with Us.