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| A groundbreaking documentary produced by Memory Bridge that reveals the largely unrecognized capacity of people with Alzheimer’s and related dementias to maintain emotionally meaningful relationships. Airing on public television stations beginning in fall 2007. |
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The Memory Bridge Initiative was featured on the front page of the Chicago Tribune on April 14, 2010.
To read the Tribune article, click here for the online version.
Michael Verde, founder and president of Memory Bridge, will bring to unforgettable life the deep spiritual and emotional connections between us that dementia can not extinguish. The presentation, The Face You Wore: Healing the dis-ease of Alzheimer’s, which Michael shares across the U.S., will be filmed live on May 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the Lake Forest College Chapel for world-wide distribution.
The “I Have a Dream” Foundation is partnering with Memory Bridge to launch Dreamers and Mockingbirds, a 12-week after school, service-learning and literacy-enrichment program based on the Memory Bridge Initiative. The Dreamers participating in Dreamers and Mockingbirds will read and explore To Kill a Mockingbird individually and as a class. Dreamers will also read parts of the novel to their Buddies (the elders with dementia participating in the program with the Dreamers), both in one-on-one and group contexts.
Michael Verde will be presenting There Is a Bridge at the 2010 Florida Hospice & Palliative Care conference on May 20 & 21 in Orlando Florida. Michael's presentation explores those facets of personal identity that Alzheimer's disease and related forms of dementia can not extinguish.
The June 2009 edition of Crossings, Memory Bridge's e-newsletter, has been published.
John Kotre, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, is the author of "White Gloves", a book which introduces the idea of autobiographical memory, which he describes as "the people, places, objects, events, and feelings that go into the story of your life."
Michael Verde was interviewed on Aging Matters, a radio program that deals with issues affecting seniors and their families.
Anne Basting, Director of the UWM Center on Age & Community, has written a book entitled Forget Memory: Creating Better Lives for People with Dementia that emphasizes the importance of activites that focus on the present when caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.
