Visiting Angels Team Brings in Over $100,000 to Combat Alzheimer’s
Press release from the Alzheimer’s Association:
The Visiting Angels Eureka team, captained by Visiting Angels Executive Director Jeanne O’Neale, finished in 6th place nationwide for most money raised for a Visiting Angels team. The team also won the award for having the largest Visiting Angels team. The team will now be awarded $10,000 from the Visiting Angels CEO which will increase the Humboldt County Walk to End Alzheimer’s to $107,651. Individually, O’Neale finished 6th and team member Lynn McKenna 7th for most money raised by a Visiting Angels participant.
O’Neale said that their reason for participating is to help put an end to this disease. “Alzheimer’s is a disease that people live with 24 hours a day so the fundraising needs to happen 24 hours a day.” She invites everyone in the community to join her team as they kick off the Walk season in January 2021. McKenna said, “the reason that the Walk has been so successful this year is directly related to the generosity of the businesses in the community and the thousands of individuals that have sponsored all of our teams.”
For the past six years, Visiting Angels and their network of support have generated over a million dollars in donations to help in the fight to End Alzheimer’s disease.
If you would like to donate, you can text 2ENDALZ to 51555 or go to the Humboldt County Walk website at: http://act.alz.org/humboldt2020 The event will continue to accept donations until the end of December.
Plans are already underway for the sixth annual Humboldt County Walk to End Alzheimer’s event will take place back on October 9, 2021. Teams can start signing up in January.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than 3,000 people in Humboldt and Del Norte counties suffer from the fatal disease, a number projected to rise to more than 5,000 in the next decade. More than 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the sixth-leading cause of death in the U.S. and the only disease among the top 10 causes that cannot be cured, prevented or even slowed. Additionally, more than 15 million family and friends provide care to people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias in the U.S. In CA alone, there are more than 630,000 people living with the disease and 1,600,000 caregivers.
Families that are battling this disease can contact the Alzheimer’s Association, the Humboldt Senior Resource Center Alzheimer’s Resource Center, Redwood Caregiver Resource Center, Area 1 Agency on Aging, and Adult Day Health Care of Mad River.
The Alzheimer’s Association provides a free nationwide 24/7 Helpline (800.272.3900) that receives more than 310,000 calls annually and is staffed by specialists and master’s-level clinicians who provide support, offer information and suggest referrals. According to Kim Coelho, Alzheimer’s Association Community Engagement Manager, many of these calls come in around 2 am, when family members feel the most alone and discouraged. “They are so relived to find out that others are going through similar situations and that there is help available.”
If you would like more information, contact Coelho at 407-8826 or email: [email protected]
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Money is like a resource. The monetary health of a community is determined by how green it is or how much money is migrating thru the community. When $100,000 dollars is removed the green is less. Along with the Relay for Life a lot of green resources disappear. We all become a little more poorer. It’s like a lumber business. The money made from the sale of products is brought into the company from the outside which it uses to pay workers to produce more products. Green money keeps coming into the community. When the lumber business shuts down no more money comes into the monetary system. Charity events only send money out of the County. Almost none is spent here. There is nothing coming in.
Too bad they discriminate in hiring. I am an IHSS registered caregiver but a MALE so they never employed me. They also refuse to interview males for office work. Look at the photo. All females.
The picture above is not a picture of our office staff. It is a selection of office staff, caregivers, non-employee Walk to End Alzheimer’s team members, team member’s children, and our beloved mascot, Teddy.
Visiting Angels is an equal opportunity employer. We not only welcome, but we encourage variety, and we hire employees accordingly. There are many factors that may contribute to an applicant not being offered a job, but gender is NOT one of them.
I am the General Manager for Visiting Angels and I am sorry that you feel you were not treated fairly in the interview process. If you would call me I would welcome a conversation with you to discuss your situation in detail. I can be reached at our main office at (707) 442-8001. I look forward to hearing from you.