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The Bristal houses a special neighborhood called Reflections, a comprehensive memory-care program that focuses on older adults who are facing early to mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease and related cognitive disorders.

Bristal honored for excellence, Alzheimer’s care

An East Meadow assisted-living center was honored among the top senior communities in the country for service excellence and Alzheimer’s care last month. Caring.com named the Bristal at East … more

By Julie Mansmann | 12/10/15

The REACH program — Return Every Adult and Child Home — is a registry that uses a database of information and bracelets to track people with cognitive disorders who go missing.

Using information to find the missing

The Return Every Adult and Child Home (REACH) registry is a database maintained by the Nassau County Police Department’s Asset Forfeiture and Intelligence unit at the police academy in Massapequa Park that tracks children and adults with cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s, dementia, autism, Down syndrome, mental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries that renders them unable to communicate when they go missing. more

By Vanessa Parker | 10/21/15

Playing dodge ball to benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation

For the second straight year, Jake Silverman, a Kennedy High School rising senior, recently organized an event to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. more

8/20/14

Long Island Republicans have lined up in support of County Legislator Michael Venditto, a Massapequa Republican, as their party’s candidate to succeed former Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. in the New York State Senate. Joining Venditto at a kick-off campaign rally on March 15 at the American Legion Hall Post 1066 in Massapequa were Dean Skelos, co-majority leader of the State Senate; Carl Marcellino, a North Shore state senator; Ed Mangano, Nassau County's executive; George Maragos, Nassau's comptroller; Norma Gonsalves, presiding officer of the County Legislature; Kate Murray, supervisor of the Town of Hempstead; and Fuschillo.

Legislator Venditto seeking Fuschillo's Senate seat

Nassau County Republicans lined up earlier this month in support of County Legislator Michael Venditto, a Massapequa Republican, as their party’s candidate to succeed former Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. in the New York State Senate. more

By Brian Racow | 3/14/14

Farewell to two accomplished public servants

In an era when too many politicians seem to be focused primarily on staying in office, U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy has announced that she will be stepping down, and State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr. has already done so. more

1/16/14

State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., center, announced on Tuesday that he would step down as of 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31 to become chief executive officer of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.

Senator Fuschillo stepping down

In a New Year’s Eve surprise, State Sen. Charles Fuschillo Jr., a popular Republican from Merrick, announced that he would step down at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31 to become chief executive officer of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. more

By Scott Brinton | 12/31/13

Anson Wang, a 17-year-old senior at East Meadow High School, was recently named an Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist for his research on Alzheimer’s disease.

EMHS senior named Intel semifinalist

At around 4 p.m. on Jan 9, Anson Wang, a senior at East Meadow High School, received the email he had been waiting for. It was from the Society for Science & the Public, notifying Wang that he had been named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, a nationwide competition that aims to discover the country’s best and brightest young scientists, who present original research to nationally recognized scientists. more

By David Weingrad | 1/16/13

What's your make-it-or-break-it election issue?

Undecided women voters, especially on Long Island, came into sharp focus during the Hofstra presidential debate. more

10/24/12

Kennedy High School senior Darwin Shen had his thesis on Alzheimer’s disease accepted recently by the Long Island Science and Humanities Symposium at SUNY Stony Brook.

Senior joins fight against Alzheimer’s

Kennedy High School senior Darwin Shen spent last summer staring into a microscope at the New York University School of Medicine, counting hundreds of neurons encased in 20 slides of mouse brain tissue. His objective: Figure out whether immunogens injected into the mice before they died were able to stop the neural loss caused by Alzheimer’s disease. more

By Scott Brinton | 4/27/11

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