1. Susana Vargas
Alzheimer’s Association

2. Go to alz.org
What you’ll find on alz.org
• Patients and caregiver tools and
resources
• Free online videos and
educational programs
• Facts and figures about
Alzheimer's disease
• Clinical Trials and scientific
advancements
• MedicAlert+Safe Return and
Comfort Zone
• Where to find our local
chapters/programs
• And much more

3. Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Caregiver Center
.
Instant access to the
information YOU need!
Online tools:
• Alzheimer’s Navigator
• ALZConnencted
• Alzheimer’s and
Dementia Caregiver
Center
• Dementia and Driving
Resource Center

4. Alzheimer's Navigator™ is a FREE online tool designed specifically to help caregiver and people with
demencia evaluate their needs, execute action steps, and connect with local programs and services.
Following a brief welcome survey, users complete a set of focused questions to receive a customized
action plan detailing next steps and suggested resources.
alz.org/alzheimersnavigator.

6. Alzheimer’s Navigator Tour
Complete the Welcome Survey
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Answer focused surveys
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Receive a customized Action Plan
Implement your plan with help from local resources
Alzheimer’s Navigator can help you map out your future

7. Why join ALZConnected?
Home Page
Post a personal update and read what your connections
have to share.
Message Boards
Share questions and opinions with a diverse community.
Solutions
Get answers to your questions or support others by offering
solutions to their challenges
Connections
Get connected with others like you. Review and accept
our suggested connections or invite your own.
Inbox
Send private messages to your connections within a secure system.
Groups
Join public or private groups focused on a topic or shared experience
Connect with a community that offers
Alzheimer's support.
ALZConnected.org

8. Get advice from our caregiver community
Caregivers message board forum:
How should my family handle suspected Alzheimer’s? HELP!
Spouse or Partner Caregiver Forum:
How do you do it?
Younger-Onset AD or Other Dementia Forum:
Teenagers dealing with a parent with EOAD

9. CAREGIVER CENTER
“ONE STOP SHOP”
Get day-to-day help
 Behaviors
 Communication
 Activities
 Respite care
 Memory loss
Get support
 Your local chapter
 Message boards
 Support groups
 Your health
 Care training
 Legal matters
 Care options
 Paying for care
 Safety
 Dementia & driving
Plan for the future
The Caregiver Center provides caregivers and families with complete online resources and information through
our Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver Center, which features sections on early-stage, middle-stage and late-stage
caregiving.

10. Online Training
Free E-learning Workshops
Take the course in English – Spanish
Learn the 10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's
disease, hear from people who have the disease, and
find out how to recognize the signs in yourself and
others.
Learn about detection, causes, risk
factors, stages and treatment of Alzheimer's
disease.

11. The Living with Alzheimer’s
For Caregivers
Topics covered will include:
 Developing a care team
 Legal and financial planning
 Coping strategies
 Care and treatment options
 Communicating and connecting
 Maximizing independence
LIVING WITH ALZHEIMER’S FOR CAREGIVERS
(SPANISH COMING SOON!)

12. Online care training and certification
Both family members and professional care
providers can benefit from this program
Do you provide care for someone with dementia or Alzheimer's?
The Alzheimer’s Association® essentiALZ® certification program is a convenient way for
individuals to be recognized for learning quality dementia care practices.
 Alzheimer’s and Dementia
 Understanding Behavior
 Communication
 Person-centered Care
 Alzheimer’s and Dementia
 Understanding Behavior
 Communication
 Person-centered Care
 Making a Connection
 Eating Well
 Recognizing Pain
 Minimizing Falls
 Rethinking Wandering
 Minimizing Restraints

13. Alzheimer’s Association
TrialMatch
130+ reasons for hope.
Alzheimer’s Association TrialMatch® provides access to more than
130 promising pharmacological (drug) and non-pharmacological (non-
drug) clinical studies being conducted at nearly 500 trials sites across
the country.
Alzheimer’s related clinical trials include:
» Treatment trials
» Diagnostic studies
» Prevention trials
» Screening studies
» Quality of life studies
I never had the ability to help
anyone with Alzheimer’s disease
until I got the disease and
participated in a clinical trial. It
would be hard to overstate the
importance of getting involved.
Ron Grant
Living with Alzheimer’s disease
TrialMatch user
Access TrialMatch online at alz.org/trialmatch or by calling
800.272.3900 – 7 a.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST, Monday - Friday

14. Safety Services
Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone® — Comfort Zone is a comprehensive web-
based location management that helps family members or friends monitor a person
with dementia by receiving automated alerts throughout the day and night when a
person has travelled beyond a preset zone.
Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone Check-In™ — Comfort Zone Check-In is
a self-service web based location management service that helps families monitor
a person with dementia by scheduling each location request or finding the
individual when necessary using a web-based application.
MedicAlert® + Alzheimer's Association Safe Return® — Our 24-hour nationwide
emergency response service for individuals with Alzheimer's or related dementia
who wander or who have a medical emergency.
Safety Education — Educate the public and professionals who may encounter
people with dementia so that they know how to handle situations, such as
wandering, safely and effectively.

15. The Alzheimer's Association
Comfort Zone® and Comfort Check-In®
Comfort Zone® is a comprehensive web-based location
management service. Families can remotely monitor a person with
Alzheimer’s by receiving automated alerts throughout the day and
night when a person has travelled beyond a preset zone.
Comfort Zone Check-In® is a self-service web based location
management service. Families can remotely monitor a person
with Alzheimer’s by conducting on-demand "Find Me" function
and receiving once daily scheduled location alert
Comfort Zone website or call 1.877.ALZ.4850
GPS Location Management Service
The Alzheimer's Association offers safety services that use GPS and cellular technology.
Comfort Zone® and Comfort Check-In® can help you manage a person's location. Comfort Zone includes MedicAlert +
Safe Return.
Comfort Zone Check-In website

16. MedicAlert® + Alzheimer's Association Safe Return®
Necklace
Bracelet
Bracelet Back
STAYING SAFE
24-hour nationwide emergency response service for
individuals with Alzheimer's or a related dementia who
wander or have a medical emergency.
JOIN NOW!
Online: medicalert.org/safereturn
Call: 1.888.572.8566
Mail: Complete and mail in the enrollment form.
Enrollment Form: English | Spanish/Español | Chinese
Completed enrollment form and photos can be mailed to:
MedicAlert + Alzheimer's Association Safe Return
2323 Colorado Blvd.
Turlock, CA 95380
Fax: Registration form to 1.800.863.3429

17. Support groups are regularly scheduled in-person or virtual gatherings
of persons with Alzheimer's, family, friends or caregivers.
Groups can have social, educational and/or support components and
are facilitated by trained individuals.
Caregiver Support Group
Get the emotional support you need

18. The Alzheimer’s Association’s Telephone
Caregiver Support Group is design to:
• Provide emotional, educational and social
support for caregivers through regularly
scheduled meetings
• Help participants develop methods and skills to
solve problems
• Encourage caregivers to maintain their own
personal, physical and emotional health, as well
as optimally care for the person with dementia
Call 1.800.272.3900 for more information about
joining the telephone support group.

20. Who Can Join?
Alzheimer’s has no boundaries
All companies and organization are invited to participate
• Communications
• Care Industry
• Health Agencies
• Government Agencies
• Hospitals
• Pharmaceutical
• Membership Organizations
• Law Firms
• Manufacturing
• Insurance
• Retail
• Sales
• Transportation
• Utilities
• Schools
• Churches

21. Over 1200
Companies are
already signed on!

22. • Internal education
• Educate your employees by:
─ Providing information on your
intranet,
─ Including information in your
employee newsletters, posters
• Public promotion
• Agreeing to educate your members, customers
or even the public by:
─ Donating media resources
─ Providing information on your public
website
─ Hosting a community lunch and learn
─ Sharing information in your retail outlets
and conferences
─ Cause marketing promotion
Choose Level of Participation

25. Easy to Sign-Up via Web
www.alz.org/AEDA

26. Visit:
www.alz.org/makeadifference
Take Action!

27. JOIN US IN THE FIGHT AGAINTS
ALZHEIMER’S
Form a Walk to End Alzheimer’s Team
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Unite in a movement to reclaim the future for millions. Form a team for Walk
to End Alzheimer's, the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds
for Alzheimer's are, support and research.

28. Questions?
THANK YOU!