No,

Not the movie or the play with Oprah.

The color Purple is the color that represents Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Support and Awareness!

How do you get OUR COLOR PURPLE known to the public???

Any ideas??


We need help!!!

When I think about the red ribbons and HIV/AIDS, I remember celebrities wearing them and promoting it and the same goes for pink ribbons and breast cancer. The celebrities wore the ribbons and then explained what they meant when they were asked.
Any celebs interested in promoting AD awareness and support? I think that Maria Shriver (sp?) has or had a LO with AD. I don't know how one would get them involved.

Maria Shriver's father, Sargent Shriver, has Alzheimer's disease. He started the Peace Corps.

Iris L.

What if WE all became our own celebrities??

What if we wore purple shirts, ribbons, shoe laces whatever, and we told everyone we met what the purple stood for?????

Could we wear something purple every day and speak with people every day about AD?

David Hype Pearce (Fraizer) is one of our spokes people!


Can we do it??? Will we do it??

I don't necessarily wear purple, although I do have my purple pin. A while back I asked where I could get Alzheiemer's awareness clothes. I found a website that has HUNDREDS of tee shirts and sweatshirts. I now have 7 different tee-shirts with Alzheimer's slogans and 2 sweatshirts. I wear them with pride!

Marj what is the site you found? I can ask some advice sunday during my walk? There are a lot of celebrities involved if you check out Alzheimers Assoc homepage./.Their pics are all on there..the MORE we get the word out the MORE people will know..I think people literally do not know about us that much and would be interested if they were educated enough.....Hey what about pushing for a stamp like Breast cancer? We must as well go all the way..As yes Maria Shriver is very involved...I do not have a lot of pruple but would wear a pin or something daily..

http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/...isease/i-wear-purple

It's called Cafepress. They have tons of I wear purple clothing. They have the "I wear purple" on 37,100 products!

Marj this site is awesome..Everyone please check it out and buy a shirt!!! There are so many to choose from I cannot decide...

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Originally posted by MITCH:
Marj this site is awesome..Everyone please check it out and buy a shirt!!! There are so many to choose from I cannot decide...

That's why I bought so many. Also got my pins from here too.

If we want a public awareness campaign, we need money, lots of it. A few celebrity spokespersons would be helpful, too. (Brook Shields' mother is in a home, presumably with dementia.) And some primetime specials on shows like 20/20, 60 Minutes. But the Alz Assn should logically spearhead something like this. Why don't we all write to them and urge that they do so?

Getting the Als Assn to spearhead this and getting a few celebs to wear purple ribbons could make a difference. I remember walking through Macy's last fall/winter and seeing kitchen stuff in pink and part of the proceeds went to breast cancer research.

I think altogether we can do something..I was watching our local news last night..They keep having these commercials for breast cancer walk in october in boston with local news people in the commercials..somehow they are getting the exposure.I have not seen one article or commercial about our walks..I think people need to stand together and see if we can get this done somehow and bring this awareness to the public..I am not taking away from cancer walk but our walk is just as important!!!

Mitch,

I agree with you! We ALL need to stand together for OUR cause and OUR Memory Walks.

Call your local AD Assns and ask where are OUR commercials? We do have celebs! Call your local TV stations and ask them to publicize the walk!!

Everyone wear PURPLE and wear AD and Memory Walk Pins! Talk about it to your friends and co-workers. E-mail you relatives!!

Ask them have they signed up for their local Memory Walks??!!! You can now sign up on line and also make a donations!

We need to ALL Stand together and spread the word!!!!

Lisa, I am back I had trouble for 3 days with our Forum and could not login...Please do not think I am whining but here are things I have seen locally that I hate to say are bothering me..AGAIN not taking away from breast cancer but this week alone our local news has pink ribbon on oct. 4th under weather forecast because that is the day of our local walk fro breast cancer..how hard would it be to put a purple ribbon for OUR walk last week..I must be extra sensitive this week or something..
There is also a display at work for donations at our cafeteria for walk today..How hard woudl it be for Alz. Assoc. to do that? These are just a couple simple things that can be done..We cannot be the only people noticing this..I have never seen so much pink in my life this week..OUR disease gets the backseat..It almost seems like it is embarassing or something to bring TOO much awareness out in the public eye when the opposite should be happening..Anyone have any insight here why this happens when it comes to awareness?

Er, this might be a strange question, but the color purple is associated with lesbian and gay
pride. When did the Alzheimers groups choose purple. It's awkward.

The color Lavender is more associated with Lesbian and Gay Pride than Purple.
while Lavender is a shade of Purple it is very different.

What is the problem if colors overlap we are all in this together. We are caring for our loved ones the best we can and we are all working for a cure, it doesn't matter if we are heterosexual or homosexual.

By the way I am a lesbian whose domestic partner of 30 years has Alzheimer's desease and I was her sole caregiver for 6 1/2 years until I had to place her 10 months ago. I still visit everyday.

I wear my purple t shirt with the Alz. Association logo with pride, not gay pride, to try to inform the public about alzheimer's and the need for more funding to fight this horrible desease that robs our loved ones and the caregives of our lives.

Lisa it is hard isn't it. I am afraid some people just aren't as aware of ALZ as they should be. I have ordered braclets for my whole family and caregivers that help me. So we are trying and I have to agree about how much pink there is. We need bigger voices I guess. I think that people accept cancer but do not accept alz as readily. Maybe fear?
Anyway will do my part in my part of the world. thanks
sheryl

Apparently there was a Celebrity Contest about wearing purple. I didn't know anything about it. I must admit, I usually skip past the main web page when I log-in.

Here is the web page for the contest results:
http://www.actionalz.org/celebrity-splash.asp

Perhaps in the future for upcoming events we need to have email drives to our local newspapers and news channels for their input.

Iris L.

Purple is also used for pancreatic cancer awareness -- there are not enough colors for anyone to call "dibs."

When you go to the CafePress site with all the T-shirts; PLEASE note that not all shirts say "Alzheimer's" in the smaller print on them; some of them are for cystic fibrosis, some for pancreatic cancer and I think there are also a few other diseases.

Just be sure you are getting what you want.

Johanna C.

PS. Color is NOT restricted to one group or another nor it is a harbinger of one's orientation or gender. Colors are neutral.

This disease and most others do not respect one's age, gender or orientation. We are all human beings and God's Children.

So, wear whatever color and let's celebrate our similarities!

Hugs to all of our marvelously diverse forum friends,

Johanna C.

I have my many tee shirts and a few sweatshirts from Cafe Press. Some of the shirts are pink with the Alzheimer's sayings on them. To me, the purple pin is for Alzheiemr's awareness, or at least that is what it signifies to me and I will yell loud and proud. If it signifies something else to other people, that is just fine by me.

I am a straight woman who wears a purple pin. If someone wants to think I'm a lesbian, so be it. I could care less.

Hi to All,

Our color purple is a deep beautiful purple!

I'm proud to wear the AD purple along with AD pins, Memory Walk pins, shoe laces etc.

Thanks for all the input!

Iris, the email drives is a great idea..NFL,MLB and a lot of sports teams have the Pink Theme going on this month..No reason they cannot do the PURPLE Theme for us for awareness for Alzheimers!!

I was looking through one of our magazines today and saw that Thomas Kincade has a figurine of a woman dressed in purple and part of the proceeds are going towards AD research. Who knows how much is going towards research, but I thought it was a little something that is good toward getting the word out.