Sign up as a Team Captain in Alzheimer's Memory Walk

Do you know - the United States will see an estimation of 44% increase in Alzheimer’s disease by 2025? Currently, there are not many treatments that can stop the disease, and there are limited kinds of drugs that help to prevent the worsening of symptoms. Alzheimer’s disease worsens with age. Individuals need total dedicated care when conditions worsen and at this time, they need a lot of support and care from family members and caregivers.

The Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk is the nation's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer care, support and research. This annual event is held in hundreds of communities across the country, and 2007 Memory Walk is now calling for volunteers of all ages to become champions in the fight against Alzheimer's.

Teams are the heart of Memory Walk, in which people work together to support a worthy cause, and every team needs a Team Captain. As Team captains, your main responsibility is to motivate walkers, build a rapport among team participants and in the process, help to raise funds through donations. As a Team Captain, you could recruit family, friends, and/or colleagues to start a team, involve everyone in the team to walk for a purpose, a common goal; and at the same time, create a platform for family-bonding and friends-bonding. This is also a good opportunity as a Team Captain to demonstrate your leadership skills as a "project leader" - from the setting of team goals, to the executing in achieving these goals. This is an event that is a perfect team-building activity for building esprit de corp in companies and business too.

What are you waiting for? Start a team today!