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A Community Conversation On Alzheimers Bill Buckmaster leads a panel discussing your questions and concerns about alzheimers |
THE FORGETTING: A PORTRAIT OF ALZHEIMER'S
This moving documentary focuses on the scientific quests to eradicate Alzheimer’s and on the families whose lives have been steadily ravaged by it. Thursday, August 7th 8:00-9:30 p.m.
Isabelle McKenna, pictured here with her daughter Maureen, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1990. In the disease’s final stages, Isabelle lost everything but the ability to sense human touch and the steadfast devotion of her family. And with each passing year, her family lost more and more of the woman they loved. THE FORGETTING brings viewers close to the intense, real-world experience of patients and families affected by Alzheimer’s.
Following the national documentary “The Forgetting,” Arizona Public Media presents a special program featuring local panelists who will answer viewers’ questions about Alzheimers live on Channel 6 KUAT from 9:30 – 10:30 PM. Hosted by Bill Buckmaster, the panel features experts who together have decades of experience dealing with families afflicted by disability and memory loss that come with the disease.
Included in the hour, Kimberly Craft reports on the impact Alzheimers has in Southern Arizona, where each year 14,500 people in Pima County are diagnosed with the disease. The situation is more acute because it is compounded by newcomers who come here to retire and find themselves unprepared and without family support when they become disabled in old age. Craft presents profiles of three families dealing with Alzheimers, as they struggle with the effects that can be devastating, physically, emotionally and financially.
If you feel that this type of programming is important and of value to this community, please consider showing your support by pledging to KUAT6 online. Thank you!
We're here to answer your questions during A Community Conversation On Alzheimers, an hour-long followup program featuring an exceptional panel of health professionals from Southern Arizona.
Viewers are encouraged to write the station before the live
broadcast to have their questions or concerns addressed. Send
emails to caring@kuat.org
Phone calls to 621-1600 will also be taken during the panel discussion.
Felipe Jacome
Felipe Jacome is the Southern Arizona Regional Director
of the Alzheimer’s Association Desert Southwest
Chapter. His worked previously as Executive Director
at both the DeGrazia Foundation and Catalina Helping
Hands, Inc., a social service agency serving the elder
and disabled community in the rural Catalina, Arizona
area. Jacome holds both a BA and MA in anthropology
from the University of Arizona.
Suzy Bourque
Suzy Bourque has worked in aging services in Tucson
since 1986. been working at Pima Council on Aging as a
Caregiver Specialist since 2002. She provides
consultation to local and long distance family
caregivers and seniors about options for in-home and
residential care and strategies for dealing with care
giving challenges. Bourque has master’s degrees in
Social Work and Education.
Terri Waldman
Terri Waldman is currently Administrator at Encore
Senior Village at Tucson. Encore provides assisted
living for individuals with dementia. Terri received
her Bachelors Degree in Social Services at Michigan
State University and her Masters in Social Work at
Arizona State University
