Hello,

Just wanted to make you aware of a series Newsday has launched:

www.newsday.com/alzheimers

About the series: For nearly two years, reporter Denise M. Bonilla and photographer J. Conrad Williams Jr. followed six families in order to chronicle the agony of Alzheimer’s disease and to provide an inside look at the role of the caregiver. The families all have different circumstances and loved ones at different stages of the disease. On many occasions, Bonilla and Williams arrived at the families’ homes early in the morning, often leaving late at night, as they observed the hour-to-hour, day-to-day struggles of caring for someone with a disease so debilitating it robs its victims of any knowledge of a life once happily lived. The stories Bonilla wrote and Williams photographed are as much love stories as they are stories of hardship and struggle. Newsday will run these stories each Sunday through Nov 1 and will be following up the series with a look toward the future and what efforts are being made to address the "tsunami" of Alzheimer's that is about to hit in the coming decades.

About the website: The website has all of the family narratives, more than a dozen articles on various topics related to Alzheimer's, photos, videos, additional caregiver quotes and stories and a searchable database of local resources as well as listings of national websites and other resources. The website is a work-in-progress. We will be adding more articles, videos and other features, including a message board and events calendar, in the coming weeks. If you would like to be added to our email list for notifications of when new content is added to the site, please send an email to alzheimers@newsday.com

Thanks,
Denise M. Bonilla