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From YouTube: The Longest Day: Alzheimer's Awareness
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On the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year, the Alzheimer's Association holds events across America to raise awareness of the disease. At City Hall, Mayor Walsh and Elderly Affairs Commissioner Emily Shea, recognize seniors in Boston living with Alzheimer's and the caregivers who support them.
A
A
A
Hello,
everybody
so
welcome
to
our
longest
day
event.
This
is
such
an
important
day
of
the
year
where
we
honor
people
with
Alzheimer's
and
their
caregivers
and
actually
I
forgot
to
introduce
myself
I'm
Emily,
Shea
and
the
elderly.
Commissioner
for
the
city
of
Boston
is
a
pleasure
working
with
Mayor
Walsh
and
my
community.
A
So
this
is
also
a
day
where
we
join
together
in
the
fight
to
end
Alzheimer's
disease.
So,
thank
you
all
for
being
here
and
for
being
a
part
of
it.
I
work
for
a
man
who
is
committed
to
the
city
of
Austin
and
all
of
its
residents,
and
today
it's
my
pleasure
to
introduce
him
in
Boston
we
have
an
estimated
12,000
people
with
Alzheimer's
disease.
Our
mayor
is
an
advocate
for
goes
with
the
disease
and
their
caregivers
in
2014
he'll,
on
suboxone
Alzheimer's
initiatives
and
later
committed
to
to
Boston
becoming
a
dementia
friendly
city.
A
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
So
much
initiate
I
want
to
thank
you
for
the
great
work
you
do.
I
want
to
thank
the
entire
every
Commission
for
the
great
work
they
do
as
well.
You
know
I
know
I
get
the
credit
reported
for
the
elderly.
Commission
has
done
some
incredible
work,
so
thank
you,
Jim.
Well,
thank
you
very
much
for
your
work
as
well.
I
want
to
thank
miss
Ella
and
Adreno
davon
Chi
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
the
great
things
all
everything
you're
doing.
B
I
also
want
to
just
give
a
shout
out
to
a
stenographer
and
Baker
I
know
he's
here
and
Frank's.
Family
family
is
no
stranger
to
Alzheimer's
disease.
He
lost
his
mom
last
year
and
you
know
he's
been
been
as
strong
as
diligent
as
support
to
raise
awareness
to
anyone.
So
long,
I
think
council
Baker
as
well
I'm,
proud
to
stand
here
today
to
recognize
those
with
Alzheimer's
and
their
caregivers.
The
event
is
held
on
the
longest
day
of
the
year.
It
symbolizes
the
long
journey
of
those
with
the
disease
and
their
caregivers.
B
Alzheimer's
is
also
personally
to
me.
My
grandmother
was
diagnosed
with
Alzheimer's.
Many
many
years
ago
she
died
from
it
and
I'll.
Remember
always
remember
the
effects
of
Alzheimer's
on
my
family,
and
it
depends
the
way
that
it
affects
the
families
when
you
lose
your
loved
ones
twice,
and
you
hope
for
that
moment
of
bringing
in
a
back
dementia
affects
almost
every
single
family
in
our
city
or
state
in
our
country.
Boston
is
a
city
with
compassion
and
drive
to
make
a
difference.
B
I'm
grateful
to
be
part
of
this
fight
for
my
grandmother
for
Frankie's
mother,
for
some
of
the
other
folks
that
have
passed
because
of
this,
but
also
the
family
members
that
support
the
loved
ones.
Our
senior
population
in
Boston
is
rapidly
growing.
A
recent
study
estimates
that
sixteen
point,
five
percent
of
Boston
residents
are
age,
65
or
above
have
Alzheimer's
or
related
dementia.
B
Think
about
that
for
a
moment
when
you
think
about
the
numbers
of
people
that
we
have
in
our
own
City,
that's
a
huge
part
of
our
family
in
Boston
we're
going
to
embrace
the
support,
our
seniors,
no
matter
what
challenges
that
they
face.
We
are
currently
carrying
out
our
H
County
initiatives
in
the
City
of
Austin.
We
have
trained
all
of
our
EMS
police
fire
on
how
to
tend
to
people
with
the
Alzheimer's
disease
or
dementia
we've
launched
memory
cafes
unite
those
with
dementia,
we're
currently
hosting
hour-long
workshops.
B
Lunch
workshops
to
train
those
at
City
Hall
who
are
working
directly
with
the
public.
No
one
should
have
to
care
for
a
loved
one
or
their
loved
one
alone,
and
our
work
certainly
isn't
finished
here.
We're
still
carrying
out
our
age
from
the
initiative
will
focus
on
affordable
housing
will
focus
on
reliable
transportation,
will
focus
on
dementia,
friendly
training
and
so
much
more.
This
city
must
remain
a
welcoming
place
for
all
older
residents.
B
We
wouldn't
be
anywhere
today
without
our
seniors
throughout
all
this
work,
we're
going
to
continue
to
raise
awareness
about
the
Alzheimer's
disease
right
now,
we're
going
to
be
lighting
up,
City
Hall
purple
to
bring
awareness
to
all
of
all
of
the
Bostonians,
both
inside
the
building
and
outside
the
village.
There's
been
purple
coming.
B
And
on
September
24th
we're
gonna
have
the
Greater
Boston
Greater
Boston
war
to
end
all
Salmons.
If
you
need
to
try
the
city
hall
team
but
I
also
know
the
team
Baker
is
having
a
team
going
to
be
walking
out,
walk
as
well,
so
I
would
love
for
you
to
walk
in
memory
of
mrs.
Baker.
I
want
to
thank
you
all
for
being
here.
I
want
to
thank
all
of
you.
Field
work,
I'm,
making
Boston,
Alzheimer's,
friendly
city
and
I
want
it
again.
B
So
the
walk
to
End
Alzheimer's
is
so
important
for
us
that
we
want
to
really
stress
the
fact
that
most
people
might
not
realize
what
the
impact
is.
But
when
your
family
gets
hit
with
that
disease
and
the
lemona
with
that
disease,
you
know
pretty
quickly
how
devastating
can
be
long-term.
So
again,
thank
you,
mr.
Shea.
Thank
you
very
much
as
well.
So
the
very
work
you
do.
A
A
You
heard
the
mayor
talk
about
all
these
great
training
work
for
doing
and
that
would
not
be
possible
without
the
Alzheimer's
Association,
so
Jim
and
I
actually
go
back
a
long
way
and
over
the
years,
I've
been
amazed
by
his
long-term
commitment
to
ending
Alzheimer's
his
support
of
people
with
the
disease
and
their
caregivers
and
his
ability
to
really
think
creatively
to
improve
care
and
services,
we're
so
happy
to
be
collaborating
with
Jim
and
his
team.
So
please
join
me
in
a
warm
welcome.
C
Thank
You,
commissioner
I,
think
what
you
just
amended
that
I'm,
really
old
I've,
been
doing
it
a
long
time
now
it
really
so.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mayor
Walsh
and
commissioner
Shay
and
all
of
our
colleagues
actually
at
the
Commission
on
affairs
of
the
Elliott
city
of
Boston.
Boston
really
has
been
a
really
a
model
of
collaboration
from
the
Alzheimer's
Association's
point
of
view
and
for
our
work
to
really
kind
of
a
two-part
mission.
We
ultimately
want
to
cure
this
disease.
C
Our
Armano
is
a
vision
of
a
world
without
Alzheimer's
and
we're
very
active
in
the
research
world
and
funding
and
leading
the
research.
But
we
know
this
is
a
very
tough
disease
and
hence
the
name
the
longest
day
on
the
summer,
solstice
honoring
families
that
are
in
this
long
journey
of
providing
care
and
support.
So,
while
we're
pushing
to
make
Alzheimer's
history,
we
are
very
committed
to
providing
care
and
support
for
everyone
living
with
Alzheimer's
disease.
C
The
12th
estimated
12,000
Boston
residents
with
Alzheimer's
disease
are
part
of
the
five
and
a
half
million
Americans,
and
over
30
million
people
worldwide.
Those
numbers
are
going
to
triple
by
the
middle
part
of
the
century
unless
we
can
find
effective
treatments,
but
it's
the
very
reason
that
we're
very
committed
to
partnering
with
the
city
and
doing
to
provide
the
support
for
residents
and
also
both
as
a
mayor
and
the
Commissioner
mentioned.
All
the
incredible
training
that
we've
been
doing
here
with
the
city
of
City
Hall
employees.
C
C
So
we're
just
so
thrilled
to
be
working
with
you
to
be
a
partner
with
you
and
Mayor,
as
I
mentioned
to
you.
This
is
our
official
invitation
to
you
to
also
be
the
honorary
chair
again
for
the
Watkins
Alzheimer's.
So
those
who
haven't
been
with
us,
the
mayor
has
been
terrific
he
attends
and
after
he
speaks
he's
just
surrounded
by
many
residents
of
Boston,
all
sharing
their
stories
like
your
story
of
how
they
are
handling
caregiving
or
having
someone
they
lost.
C
So
we
would
love
to
see
many
of
you
with
us
here
in
Boston
over
in
Cambridge,
in
Charlestown,
on
September
24th
and
again
it
is
a
privilege
and
an
Alzheimer's
Association's
point
of
view
to
be
a
partner
in
one
of
the
preeminent
cities
in
America
and
really
a
city
that
is
leading
the
charge
in
the
country
and
a
dementia
capable
and
a
dementia
friendly
city.
So
thank
you
very
much.
A
Thanks
Kim
so
now
I
can
visit
is
a
really
important
part
of
our
program.
We're
going
to
hear
from
I
Ella
young
she's,
our
next
speaker.
So
Allah
is
a
longtime
Boston
residents
I
hear
mother
of
five
children,
that's
very
excessive
and
has
also
been
diagnosed
with
dementia.
She
attends
our
memory
cafe
in
the
city's
growth
Hall
Senior,
Center
and
she's,
going
to
come
up
here
with
somebody
right
with
with
Ayanna
and
I.
A
D
E
Good
evening,
I'm
going
to
speak
on
behalf
of
miss
Ella.
Yesterday
we
was
able
to
come
up
with
the
statement
and
she
would
like
me
to
read
her
so
she
said
my
name
is
elegant
and
I
am
79
years
old
I
started
attending
the
World
Boxing
Center.
At
the
beginning
of
this
year,
I
started
coming
to
the
center
because
of
memory
happened,
I
suffered
several
strokes
and
because
of
it
had
developed
Alzheimer's.
E
My
memory
did
to
him
what
he
used
to
be
in
one
year,
I
lost
my
husband
and
moved
from
Boston,
that's
from
Alabama
back
to
Boston.
She
I
was
really
sad
during
the
time
when
I
first
started
some
instant
memory,
testing
I
did
not
feel
comfortable.
Something
I
did
not
interact
with
and
use.
My
fear
in
my
memory
was
that
I
do
not
feel
confident
doing
a
lot
of
things.
I
used
to
do,
for
example,
I
used
to
walk
every
day
before
coming
to
the
center.
E
I
did
not
want
to
do
anything
with
sit
on
the
porch
and
I
lost
my
love
for
walking
the
exercises
are
participate
in
a
memory
cafe
having
beheld
my
memory,
I'm
able
to
seven
so
old
memories
that
otherwise
I
would
not
have
thought
of
reminiscing
on
my
thousand,
and
my
young
adult
years
has
really
helped
me.
I
even
have
mended
a
relationship
with
my
mother,
the
season
that
has
also
helped
me.
The
exercise
I
participated.
How
me
regain
confidence
in
myself.
E
I
now
tends
to
walk
sometimes
without
my
cane
and
I
also
can
feel
the
strength
in
my
knees,
I
am
son.
Suffice
it
to
say
in
my
old
hydrophytic
another.
The
difference
on
my
daughter
was
very
difficult
for
me.
A
couple
months
ago,
I
also
the
walking
every
Friday
with
my
leading
from
the
scene.
I
am
so
happy
for
every
cafe
in
the
Senior
Center,
because
I
have
gained
confidence
in
myself
again,
I
have
my
independence.
That
and
I
also
have
fun
doing
so.
A
Thanks,
thank
you
both
for
that.
Thank
you,
I'm,
so
I'd
next
like
to
introduce
Yvonne
Marion,
so
Yvonne
is
a
teacher
in
after
school
and
before
school,
on
Ella's
oldest
daughter
and
a
devoted
caregiver
to
her
mother.
Caregivers
plays
such
an
important
role
in
supporting
their
loved
ones,
and
we
are
really
really
happy
that
you've
been
able
to
take
some
time
out
of
your
busy
schedule
to
be
without
here.
Today,
a
bond
is
going
to
share
some
of
her
story
with
us,
and
we
really
appreciate
that.
Thank
you.
D
Hi
I'm
Yvonne,
mellow,
young
daughter
and
I'm,
her
caregiver
and
I
just
want
to
share
that.
My
mother
did
most
of
her
life
in
Boston.
She
walked
to
the
MBTA
and
on
she
moved
down
south
when
she
retired
and
she
wanted
to
live
her
life
out
there.
But
when
she
got
down
south
she
had
three
members
roads.
So
she
was
way
back
in
the
woods
and
there
wasn't
really
hospitals.
There
was
hospital,
but
she
couldn't
get
to
him.
D
So
me,
being
up
here
worrying
about
her
I,
had
to
leave
Boston
and
go
down
to
Atlanta
to
get
her
because
three
strokes
was
enough.
So
I
brought
her
back
here
and
I
decided
that
I
wanted
her
to
have
the
best
care
which
was
Mass.
General
I
took
her
to
Mass
General
because
she
had
surgery
on
her
knees
and
when
she
had
surgery
on
her
knee
and
she
came
back
to
Boston,
she
couldn't
hardly
walk
so
I
took
the
mass.
You
know
in
Mass.
General
told
me
that
there
was
nothing.
D
She
can
do
this
for
her.
So
I
brought
her
back
home.
She
sat
in
the
room.
She
would
not
come
out.
She
would
not
she
kept
the
curtains
blinds
closed.
She
was
just
I
thought
she
was
on
her
way
out.
But
that's
when
I
told
my
sister
I
said
we
got
to
do
something
we
have
to
get
her
a
body
here.
So
I
had
my
sister
find
a
Center
for
her,
which
was
global.
She
found
Grove
all
and
she
told
me
I
had
a
Center
for
you.
D
This
was
the
place,
so
I
took
her
there
and
she
started
climbing
for
the
cafe
and
the
memory
classes
and
when
she
got
to
the
memory
classes,
everything
started
coming
back,
and
this
was
about
three
months
that
she
had
been
going
and
she
come
home
and
I
had
a
totally
different
person.
She
was
not
some
other
that
left
my
house
with
the
windows
closed
and
everything
she
wasn't
doing
anything.
So
it's
all
right
now.
So
when
I
took
it
to
grow
hall,
it
was
like
I
had
anniversary.
D
She
had
my
mother
back
and
that
to
me
is
the
best
thing
to
a
kiss-ass.
Excuse
me
in
the
world
is
my
mother
I
had
my
mother
back
so
to
me,
that's
a
joy
growth.
Hall
was
the
best
thing
that
I
could
have
ever
done
for
my
mother
interval
and
it
really
brought
a
lot
out
of
her
and
I
think
everybody
for
what
they
have
done
for
my
mother.
They
really
brought
her
I
grow
Hall
abroad,
watershed
out
of
her
shell
and
the
memory.
Cache
is
the
best
thing
that
we
could
ever
wish
for.
A
Thank
You
LaVon,
you
know
I,
think
you
raised
such
an
important
point,
because
I
think
so
many
times
when
people
have
dementia,
they
get
very
isolated
and
it's
really
about
trying
to
bring
people
out,
get
them
connected
to
others
through
memory
cafes.
This
summer,
under
mayor
Walker's,
leadership
will
be
launching
by
doing
some
our
first
meetups
and
collaboration
with
the
Alzheimer's
Association
for
people
in
the
early
stages
of
dementia
really
trying
to
get
people
out
with
depth
on
connected
to
each
other
and
back
and
engage
in
life.
A
A
He
has
a
strong
advocate
personal
with
dementia
and
I
hear
a
lot
of
clapping,
so
you
all
probably
know
that
right
and
it's
very
passionate
about
making
sure
that
people
get
connected
to
information
and
resources
and
have
opportunities
for
our
engagement.
So
I
am
self
worth
with
Chi
and
I'd
like
to
introduce
her
to
wrap
up
our
program
today.
F
F
What
you're
doing
is
such
an
impact
on
people,
you
know
so
often
it
seems
like
just
so
much
more
pushing
papers
uphill
and
then
you
get
this
going
on
and
we
say
it's
all
worthwhile
I
wasn't
out
Boston
University,
Alzheimer's
research,
Commission,
leading
Advisory
Committee
meeting
the
other
day
and
the
woman
who
leads
that
belt.
Nolan
has
been
a
leader.
F
He
also
was
in
Boston
for
years
and
years
and
years,
and
she
said
I
want
you
to
tell
the
mayor
and
I
waited
16
years
for
somebody
who
cared
about
this
and
then
having
somebody
who
cared
about
this
he's
making
everything
be
able
to
happen,
and
so
we
are
the
luckiest
city
in
the
world
who
have
somebody
like
this
at
our
home,
because
this
is
the
way
it
happened.
So
they
do
all
any
wait
before
we
go.