Nutwork Web Design are very proud to have been chosen to build the new website for Alzheimer’s Australia Memory Walk WA Website. We have used WordPress as the content management system which gives them a very simple way to keep the site up to date.

Join us for the Alzheimer's Australia WA inaugural Memory Walk on Sunday 20 September 2009 to mark World Alzheimer's Day at Edinburgh Oval, Curtin University of Technology

Walk to honour the 22,000 Western Australians who are living with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia or in memory of a loved one.  Walk, jog or run as many times as you can around the oval (.5km) any time during the day from 9.30am until 4.30pm.

Each time you cross the finish line you will be handed a "flag" which you may place in the centre of the oval at the end of your laps of honour.

ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S AUSTRALIA WA

As Australia's oldest and largest dementia organisation, Alzheimer's Australia WA is at the forefront of dementia care services, with world-class research, risk reduction and education and training programs designed to meet the challenge of what has been described by Access Economics as a "national dementia epidemic"  read more

ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA

Dementia is the consequence of a number of diseases resulting in a progressive and disabling condition affecting the brain that can bring turmoil and anguish to those involved.

It affects 1 in 3 people over 65 years.

A person with dementia will live for an average of eight to ten years.

Dementia is the term used to describe the symptoms of a large group of illnesses which cause a progressive decline in a person's functioning. The most common forms of dementia are Alzheimer's disease and Vascular dementia.  Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, accounts for about 70% of all cases.  The second most common form is vascular dementia, which may be preventable.  read more