Darrell K Violet Fund For Alzheimer’S Inquiry Introduced On Texas Senate Floor
Legendary Texas Football Coach Darrell Royal in addition to married adult woman Edith positions DKR Fund every bit a ‘Texas game-changer’ inwards Alzheimer's affliction attention in addition to research. Celebrities in addition to delineate organisation leaders lend their vocalisation in addition to back upwardly to cause.
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| Left to Right: Lance Armstrong, Mrs. Edith Royal, Coach Darrell Royal, Matthew McConaughey (Photo: Business Wire) |
Edith Royal, Darrell Royal's wife, described the fund to a Texas legislative commission hearing Tuesday.
Royal, who suffers from Alzheimer's, every bit good appeared at the hearing along amongst seven-time Tour de French Republic winner Lance Armstrong in addition to histrion Matthew McConaughey.
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The Darrell K Royal Fund for Alzheimer’s Research was launched today at an Interim Joint Committee hearing on Alzheimer's Disease (AD) inwards the Texas Senate Chamber.
The DKR Fund is named later on legendary Texas football game coach Darrell Royal in addition to was created to facilitate question in addition to attention for Texans to attempt to cure AD inwards our lifetimes. The proclamation was made every bit purpose of testimony given yesteryear Royal’s wife, Edith Royal. Joining her on the Senate flooring was Coach Royal in addition to their long-time friends in addition to supporters, histrion Matthew McConaughey in addition to 7-time Tour de French Republic winner Lance Armstrong.
“Texas ranks 3rd inwards the acre for pose out of citizens diagnosed amongst Alzheimer’s. The lamentable fact is that most everyone inwards our the world is touched yesteryear this affliction in addition to the Darrell Royal menage unit of measurement is no exception,” says Edith Royal. “The DKR Fund represents a commitment to excellence inwards Alzheimer’s question in addition to attention for Texans, the acre in addition to the world. I am grateful for the chance to create this legacy for my husband, in addition to for the incredible grouping of prominent Texans who wishing to bring together us inwards this endeavor.”
As purpose of her testimony, Mrs. Royal emphasized take away for a vehicle that funds collaborative question inwards Texas, in addition to promotes sharing of discoveries in addition to handling strategies nationwide.
According to the National Alzheimer's Association, Texas ranks 3rd inwards the acre for pose out of citizens diagnosed amongst Alzheimer’s. There are currently 340,000 Texans living amongst the affliction in addition to yesteryear 2025, that pose out is expected to increase to a greater extent than than 38 percent. Despite the high pose out of Texans affected yesteryear AD, the vast bulk of funding for question is directed toward the eastward in addition to due west coasts.* The DKR Fund volition enable Texas to hold upwardly the “game-changer” inwards advancing the global create out against AD in addition to related dementias.
Mrs. Royal every bit good brought to the Committee’s attending the harsh physical, mental, in addition to fiscal challenges that come upwardly amongst existence a caregiver to someone amongst AD.
“We are fortunate to receive got a squad standing amongst us every bit nosotros accept this journey, merely then many families in addition to caregivers create not,” said Mrs. Royal. “Every twenty-four lx minutes current caregivers are burning out, stressing out; suffering really serious physical side effects of this challenge in addition to create non know where to turn. It is painful to intend of these people – both the someone amongst the affliction in addition to the caregiver – experiencing the fearfulness of the future, loss of hope, in addition to the feeling of consummate in addition to full abandonment at this phase of their lives. It is for those people that I utter today.”The DKR Fund’s Board of Advisors consists of leaders inwards business, entertainment, sports in addition to government, all of whom receive got affection for Darrell Royal in addition to a wishing to brand a departure inwards the create out against Alzheimer’s Disease.
The DKR Fund Board of Advisors are every bit follows: Greg Abbott, Beau Armstrong, Lance Armstrong, Mack Brown, Ben Crenshaw, Lisa Dawson, Eloise DeJoria, Frank Denius, Melissa Edwards, Larry Gatlin, Angie Harmon, Rita Hortestine, Alfred Jackson, Joe Jamail, David Kazen, Ava Late, Red McCombs, Matthew McConaughey, Jim Bob Moffett, Laurée Moffett, Kit Moncrief, Mike Myers, Willie Nelson, Mack Rankin, Corby Robertson.
About the DKR Fund
The Darrell K Royal Fund for Alzheimer’s Research represents a commitment to excellence inwards Research in addition to Care for Texans to attempt to cure Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) inwards our lifetimes, to expand question into Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), in addition to to expand the paradigms of attention in addition to access for Texans thereby enabling exposure to preventative in addition to handling strategies aimed at combating the epidemic of AD. www.dkrfund.org
Contact:
for The Darrell K Royal Fund for Alzheimer’s Research
Elizabeth Peichel, 214-336-8344
epeichel@dkrfund.org
www.dkrfund.org
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