Deans' stroke musings: Tell presidential candidates to make Alzheimer's a national priority

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Tell presidential candidates to make Alzheimer's a national priority

Where is the similar request from our stroke associations? Are they even talking to the presidential candidates? Failing on a grand scale once again.
More than 6.5 million people in the U. S. have survived a stroke, increasing by 600,000 every year.
http://www.alz.org/dm/FY16/Advocacy/AdvocacyPet.html

We have one year to convince presidential candidates to make Alzheimerâ€™s disease a priority.

Sign this petition to our candidates.

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Dear Friend,

We are one year away from an election that has the potential to change the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Please sign this petition and urge presidential candidates to address the Alzheimer's epidemic.

We need to make dramatic progress in the coming years to achieve the Alzheimer's Association vision of a world without Alzheimer's disease, and to do so the next president must make Alzheimer's care, support and research a priority.

Alzheimer's is a fatal disease with no survivors. More than 5 million Americans currently live with the disease, and that number is expected to rise to 7.1 million by 2025. As America's most expensive disease, nearly one out of every five Medicare dollars is spent on Alzheimer's and other dementias.

I urge the next president to:

Formally address the Alzheimer's disease crisis.

Encourage his or her party to make Alzheimer's a critical issue in their platform.

Build upon the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease and grow or initiate state Alzheimer's plans.

The next president must take a stand in the fight against Alzheimer's. Sign the petition today.

Sincerely,

John Funderburk
Director of Advocacy

The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer's disease^®.