January 4, 2010
Global BC News Hour - Linda Aylesworth reporting
Report on Rising Tide:
- Gerry Matier
- Jim Mann
- Jean Blake
- Robert Hastings
Gerry Matier, caregiver and this year’s
Investors Group Walk for Memories honouree in Vancouver, speaks about some of the unique challenges of being a care partner.
Excerpts from the January 4 press conference in Vancouver include:
- Jim Mann, who sits on both the National and B.C. Alzheimer Society boards, speaking from his perspective as a person living with the disease
- Jean Blake, CEO of the Alzheimer Society of B.C.
- Robert Hastings, Volunteer Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alzheimer Society of B.C.