Brooklyn Court’s Gender Awareness Committee holds Alzheimer’s Awareness event
November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, so the Kings County Supreme Court’s Gender Fairness Committee decided to honor the occasion by hosting a program titled “The Basics: Memory Loss, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease” for judges, attorneys and other court employees at 320 Jay St. last Thursday.
“When we sat down to try to decide on which program we should host it, was brought to our attention that November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month,” said Justice Miriam Cyrulnik. “For me, this is very personal, because my mom had Alzheimer’s before she passed. Women are very much affected by this disease — disproportionately so — both as patients and as caregivers. We thought it would be a wonderful opportunity to provide information.”
For the program, the Gender Fairness Committee invited Eve Vaval, a Brooklyn College graduate with a master’s degree in social work from Stony Brook University. Vaval serves as both an advocate for patients with Alzheimer’s and a caregiver in her role as Care and Support Program Manager at the Alzheimer’s Association.