Creating an Awareness: National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month

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Creating an Awareness: National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month

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November is National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month. This article tells the history, the progress made in the past twenty years as we have become more aware of this disease, and events that are planned by Alzheimer's Association chapters all across the country.

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