Juniper Village at Brookline Walks to End Alzheimer's

On Saturday, October 11^th, 46 teams comprised of 601 walkers laced up their sneakers and took to the track to end Alzheimer’s disease!  This year’s State College Walk to End Alzheimer’s—involving the most participants in the walk’s history—was held at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, home of the State College Spikes minor league baseball team. Letters from area caregivers, as well as a local man in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, were shared during the opening ceremony. Penn State men’s basketball coach, Pat Chambers, who lost his father to the Alzheimer’s, offered a motivational speech to the crowd of supporters, urging all to fight the disease that according to the Alzheimer’s Association, will triple to around 13.8 million cases by the year 2050.

Team Juniper Village at Brookline was a corporate sponsor of the walk and raised the second-highest team amount, bringing in just over $5,474. The event raised a total of $66,229.47, which directly benefits the Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association. “It’s overwhelming to see such an outpouring of support from both our Juniper Village and State College area communities,” said Liz Plozner-Chalfa, executive director of Juniper Village Wellspring Memory Care at Brookline. “This disease is a devastating one, but efforts such as this key fundraiser give us all hope for the future.”