Virginia Alzheimer's Alliance

Club Description

The Virginia Alzheimer’s Alliance is a student-led organization that focuses on increasing awareness and education about Alzheimer’s disease within the UVA community. Through training sessions, fundraising activities, and engagements with Alzheimer’s patients, we hope to help increase funding for Alzheimer’s research, as well as to provide friendly faces for local Alzheimer’s patients to spend time with. We want to emphasize the importance of connecting with Alzheimer’s patients on an individual level, so we will be spending as much time as possible interacting with local nursing homes and UVA Health to engage with patients. We hope to create an organization that outlives our time here at UVA, and we hope that through our work, UVA students and the Charlottesville community as a whole will be able to contribute to a worldwide effort to find a cure for Alzheimer’s.