OFFICIAL TRAILER
Remembering: "If you're trying to understand what it feels like to live with Alzheimer's...then you need to see this movie!"
Lisa Genova, PhD, Neuroscientist, (NYTimes best-selling author) - "Still Alice" & "Remember"
"HYHAG Gives the disease a face, a soul, a family, and a message we should all hear!"
Don McDaniel
"Despite the fears there is hope and Greg represents that hope."
Kate Granigan, CEO ALCA (Aging Life Care Advocates)
"A brilliant journalist, Greg O'Brien has bravely chosen to live his life out of the shadows and in the spotlight."
George Vradenburg, Co-Founder, Us Against Alzheimer's
"We live in a culture where taking care of somebody is penalized."
Dr. Molly Perdue & Melanie Braverman, AFSC Co-Founders
"a more eloquent, witty and honest spokesperson this horrible disease with never see!"
Rudy Tanzi, PhD, Prof. Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Cure Alzheimer's Fund
"It isn't heartbreaking...but heartwarming!"
Federico Furzan
"Alzheimer's messed with the wrong man."
David Shenk, Author and podcaster host of "The Forgetting"
"Greg has done a great job with Alzheimer's focusing on significance"
Rev. Doug Scalise, Pastor, Brewster Baptist Church
MEET GREG O'BRIEN
A career journalist, Greg O’Brien’s latest book, an international award winner, “On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s” is the first book written by an investigative reporter embedded inside the mind of Alzheimer’s, chronicling the progression of his own disease. Lisa Genova, author of the best-selling Alzheimer’s novel, Still Alice, whose screen version won an Academy Award, wrote the foreword. “If you’re trying to understand what it feels like to live with Alzheimer’s…then you need to read this book,” she observed.
Alzheimer’s is a death in slow motion, like having a sliver of your brain shaved off every day. For more than ten years, writer Greg O’Brien has taken detailed notes as an embedded reporter inside the mind of Alzheimer’s, chronicling the progression of this demon of a disease.
MEET THE EXPERTS ON THE JOURNEY WITH GREG!
Greg O'Brien
Journalist
Melanie Braverman
Co-Founder AFSC
Rev. Doug Scalise
Brewster Baptist Church
Lisa Genova
PhD, Neuroscientist
Dr. Robert Satcher
Surgeon General
Dr. Molly Perdue
Co-Founder AFSC
Dr. Rudy Tanzi
PhD, Neuroscientist
Kate Granigan
CEO ALCA
George Vradenburg
CEO UsA2
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
Eli Lilly
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We pursue pharmaceutical innovation, provide high-quality products and strive to deliver superior business results.
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We maintain an environment built on mutual respect, openness and individual integrity. This includes our concern for all people who touch or are touched by our company: customers, employees, shareholders, partners, suppliers and communities.
​Since our founding in 1978 as one of the world’s first global biotechnology companies by Charles Weissmann, Heinz Schaller, Kenneth Murray and Nobel Prize winners Walter Gilbert and Phillip Sharp, Biogen has led innovative scientific research with the goal over the last decade to defeat devastating neurological diseases.
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Millions of people around the world are affected by multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Many people also suffer from less common diseases such as spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).
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We believe that no other disease area holds as much need or as much promise for medical breakthroughs as neuroscience.
We give first thoughts to patients and their families. We strive to increase the benefits that healthcare provides them and we conduct our business to meet their diversified healthcare needs worldwide. As a human health care (“hhc”) company, we develop and provide products and services that contribute to the well-being of patients and customers under any healthcare system.
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In order to realize our corporate philosophy, we develop business activities that contribute to sustainable economic growth and the resolution of social issues, as well as make decisions and act appropriately and in a timely manner, in compliance with all relevant laws and ethical standards.
AND TO ALL OUR PARTNERS ON AND OFF THE SCREEN
The Alzheimer’s pandemic is one of the most significant health and social economic crises of this generation. It is a national and global emergency that has a devastating health, social and economic toll on millions of people living with this disease, their families and caregivers.
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UsAgainstAlzheimer’s exists to conquer Alzheimer’s disease. Since our founding in 2010, we have taken on the toughest problems in the fight to end Alzheimer’s. Our work is driven by the urgency to find effective treatments and the prevention steps needed to reach the time where no one is lost to Alzheimer’s
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In the past decade, progress has been made, with more hope on the horizon now than ever before.
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But every day of delay is another day lost to the millions of people affected by this devastating disease. If nothing changes, by 2050, 14 million Americans will be living with Alzheimer’s at an annual cost of more than $1 trillion. The time to act is now.
Music Mends Minds is a nonprofit that creates musical support groups for individuals with Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and other neurological disorders.
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To foster worldwide communities among afflicted individuals and their families, friends, volunteers, and caregivers, all of whom can thrive on socialization and music-making.
K2 Medical Research, a privately-owned clinical research facility in the greater Orlando area. We specialize in conducting multiphasic clinical trials that promote the development of innovative and effective medical treatments while maintaining the safety and privacy of our participants.
Here at K2, we are committed to fighting the diseases that plague our loved ones and ourselves. By harnessing the power of advanced clinical research and connecting our patients with the treatments of tomorrow, we can improve the health of our local communities, and by extent, the population of our world.
AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION
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Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, with 6.2 million people in the United States living with Alzheimer’s disease today. If the current trend continues, 12.7 million Americans 65 and older will have Alzheimer’s by 2050.
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Alzheimer’s often starts 5, 10, or even 20 years before symptoms appear, meaning early detection and a focus on brain health are key. That is why BrainGuide has developed a memory questionnaire and collected resources to help you better understand Alzheimer’s and what best next steps you can take.
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BrainGuide is a first-of-its-kind platform created by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s with in-kind and financial support from Biogen.
Whether you are concerned about your own brain health, that of a loved one, or if you are an Alzheimer’s caregiver, BrainGuide is here to provide you with the tools you need to move forward confidently.
Lilly's Clinical Trial
TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 3 Trial
The TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 3 Trial is a research study to see if an investigation medicine can help to prevent or slow down symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Study participants will recieve either the investigational;' medicine or placebo.
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A research study also know as a clinical trial, helps researchers and doctors to find out if a investigational medicine is both safe and effective.
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A placebo look s the same as the investigational drug but does not contain any actual medication.
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To learn more, head over to the Eli Lilly's TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 3 site for more info
