January 4, 2010
Global BC News Hour - Linda Aylesworth reporting
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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.