Stamp Out Alzheimer's
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| This is a film of the Alzheimer's commerative stamp that was issued inwards 2008. It did non enhance coin for Alzheimer's research. |
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Help Stamp Out Alzheimer's
As all of us on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room know Alzheimer’s is 1 of the greatest as well as most costly medical as well as social problems facing our field today.
It is a vicious illness which extracts a tremendous physical, emotional, as well as fiscal toll from all it touches. We must piece of occupation along our back upwards for those alongside this illness as well as their aid partners, but nosotros must also create practise to halt this illness yesteryear finding varied innovative ways to fund research!
The proposed legislation for an Alzheimer’s Disease Research Semipostal Stamp, H.R. 1508 or S. 1091 is 1 such way.
Quite simply, this legislation would straight the USPS to blueprint as well as number a postage stamp stamp that would enhance awareness as well as crucial funds for Alzheimer’s research.
The beauty of this stamp is that is does this WITHOUT increasing taxes, discretionary spending, or the deficit.
Like the pop as well as successful Breast Cancer Research Semipostal which has raised over $77.6 meg for thorax cancer research, the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Semipostal would terms a few cents to a greater extent than than regular origin degree postage, alongside the extra funds going to the NIH to fund query for amend treatments, prevention, as well as - the ultimate prize - a CURE for Alzheimer’s & related disorders.
We must role EVERY agency available to defeat Alzheimer’s, our formidable opponent.
Like many of you, nosotros bring lost those we’ve loved the most: Max, his non bad grandmother. Lynda, her dad as well as her husband. These losses, equally painful equally they are, bring fueled our advocacy as well as our conclusion to fund as well as discovery a cure, but nosotros demand YOUR help!
We demand to recruit the bulk of our representatives to footstep upwards as well as sign on to this legislation, or it volition fail.
This is the fifth fourth dimension this legislation has been introduced inwards the House as well as the fourth fourth dimension inwards the Senate since 2005. Each fourth dimension it fails to piece of occupation out of committee, the procedure begins all over again.
Please CALL your elected officials TODAY! Ask them to larn on board.
This is the unmarried most effective way to influence their opinions close legislation.
Members of Congress regularly inquire their staff to written report on the opinions of constituents calling their offices, as well as they frequently maintain runway of the numbers of constituents weighing inwards on a detail issue.
It’s easy. Follow these steps:
1. Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121; then ask to survive seat through to the portion of your congressman or Senator.
If y'all don’t know the names of your representatives, y'all tin flame discovery out who they are, equally good equally the straight business to their offices yesteryear visiting:
2. Once y'all achieve the lawmaker’s office, inquire to speak alongside their Health Legislative Aid.
Then role these talking points:
Provide your advert as well as allow them know that y'all are a cistron inwards their state/district.
Let them know that Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading drive of overstep inwards the United States; that at that spot are currently 5.4 meg Americans alongside Alzheimer’s, as well as 15.4 meg unpaid caregivers. These numbers are expected to triple over the side yesteryear side decade.
American families as well as taxpayers right away pass $200 billion per twelvemonth caring for those alongside Alzheimer’s as well as inside x years, to a greater extent than than $2 trillion volition bring been spent on aid for those alongside Alzheimer’s. Our alone promise at changing these figures is to vigorously fund research.
Ask your Senators/representative to COSPONSOR H.R.1508 (House) as well as S.1091 (Senate): To supply for the issuance of an Alzheimer's Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.
Passage of this nib would enhance awareness of the enormity of this wellness crisis AND help fund query WITHOUT increasing taxes, discretionary spending, or the deficit. The semipostal would, inwards fact, supply much needed, terms neutral, additional revenue for dementia research.
Please portion your personal reasons for bespeak this. Personal stories practise bring emotional impact!
Tell your legislator that his/her vote powerfulness be the 1 that makes a difference and helps discovery an effective handling or cure for Alzheimer's.
Let your legislators know that nosotros volition survive publishing a listing of the supporters inwards an article on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room and, also, publicly acknowledging them on the HelpStampOUTAlzheimer’s advocacy page.
Thank the assist for his/her fourth dimension as well as closed yesteryear leaving your name, metropolis of residence, as well as telephone number thence their portion tin flame follow upwards alongside you.
Feel costless to portion the responses of your legislators inwards the comments box hither on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room.
Thank y'all for taking awareness to the side yesteryear side step: to ACTION! With your aid nosotros CAN Help Stamp OUT Alzheimer’s!
A notation from Lynda Everman.
First, my cheers to Max for cowriting this article as well as to Bob for using the wide achieve of the to push clitoris attending to this initiative.
I genuinely came into the procedure a niggling belatedly - to a greater extent than or less 2010 - equally I was consumed equally a caregiver for my belatedly husband, Richard, who was diagnosed alongside Mild Cognitive Impairment inwards 1997 as well as passed away alongside Alzheimer's inwards early on 2012. And, yes, it was a definitive diagnosis equally Richard donated his encephalon to survive used for Alzheimer's query upon death.
To respond a few of your concerns, the stamp y'all encounter inwards the photograph - as well as the profile film on my Help Stamp OUT Alzheimer's Facebook page - is retired.
It was designed yesteryear USPS Art Director Ethel Kessler as well as released equally a brusk lived commemorative stamp inwards 2008.
While her woman parent suffered from Alzheimer's, this was non a depiction of her mother, but intended to draw attending to the importance of the aid partners of those who bring Alzheimer's as well as related neurological disorders. The words, care, support, as well as query seem inwards the selvage inwards the upper correct corner of the stamp sheet. The haze inwards the background portrays confusion as well as the light, hope.
If/when a semipostal is approved, at that spot volition survive a rival for a novel design. We bring no command over the pick that is made.
Getting to this bespeak has been a long as well as arduous journey. Fellow advocate Kathy Siggins has been pursuing this since the overstep of her husband, Gene, inwards 1999. This is the fifth fourth dimension it's been introduced inwards the House & the fourth fourth dimension inwards the Senate.
As a semipostal, it is unique inwards that, non alone would it enhance awareness, it would also enhance much needed funds for dementia research, as well as allow the "ordinary" citizen to contribute.
"Individual assay is the alone way to brand a collective difference."
While it is non "THE" answer, it is some other - as well as highly symbolic - tool inwards our arsenal to halt a real vicious illness that has claimed equally good many for far equally good long.
Max Wallack, Puzzles to Remember
Lynda Everman, Help Stamp OUT Alzheimer’s
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