Ms Le Bey has been recognized as the #1 online influencer for Alzheimer's!
I will be a guest on Lori Le Bey's Alzheimer's Speaks Radio show on Monday, June 7th at 2 PM. I am so honored and excited to be on her show! Please tune in if you have a chance!
"PUZZLE MANIA" is a jigsaw puzzle competition to raise funds for PuzzlesToRemember and KidCaregivers
The jigsaw puzzle competition will have teams of up to 4 persons each. Teams will sit with the same 500-piece puzzle and compete to finish the puzzle first. The winning team will be honored with a trophy. Second and third place teams will be acknowledged and rewarded as well.
Teams could be solo, two people or four people.
The fee to participate will be $25 per person or $100 per team. Organizations and businesses are welcome to sponsor teams if they wish.
This event is fun and light hearted. It will be family-friendly, and children ages 10 are older will be welcomed as team members.
The Event will be held from 1:00 to 4:00 PM.
We are looking for 25 people to act as table hosts and recruit their own four-person teams from friends, neighbors or family members!
Ticket prices will be tax-deductible.
*If you would like to participate but do not have time to recruit your own team or seek one out, let us know and we will do our best to find a table for you.
Date is TBD. It will take place in June or September at Plainview Old Bethpage High School.
If you would like to host a PUZZLE MANIA event in your neighborhood, please email us. We can help you! It is lots of fun!
Email Hailey at kidcaregivers@gmail.com
Since the age of 10, (I am now 15) my volunteers and I have been working hard to close the gap in resources for marginalized persons living with Alzheimer's disease. Youth members who have to act as caregivers to family members with Alzheimer's disease fall into that group. I had 2 missions when starting Kid Caregivers: to provide support to caregiving youth, and to provide activities to help benefit the Alzheimer's community. I learned a lot about caregiving for family members. PUZZLE TIME helps both the young people (many of whom are caregivers themselves, and the elders who solve them). Here is a video where I am addressing an audience at the NATIONAL ALZHEIMER'S SUMMIT. (I appear at 31:00 in the video). However the entire video is worth watching.
My grandparents had a family friend who was gay. "Jack" was the sweetest man. He was from France, and was an artist and dancer. He painted a beautiful painting of a famous bridge in a park for my grandparents. He always had fun stories and had the best accent!
Unfortunately, when he began to forget things, it was very scary. Jack did not have children. His nieces and nephews were in France. He did not live near us. When he developed Alzheimer's, he was placed into a nursing home. He was very lonely. He lived far away from us, but we visited him occasionally.
We are now shipping Alzheimer's puzzles to SAGE communities, and will be recruiting student volunteers and Girl Scouts to participate in PUZZLE TIME. Our hope is to provide companionship and stimulating activities for the LGBT Alzheimer's communities.
SAGE stands for Advocacy & Services for LGBT Elders. To read more about the organization click here
I am extremely excited that Konnekt Global a youth driven nonprofit organization have delivered jigsaw puzzles to underserved diverse Alzheimer's facilities in the state of New Jersey. We are now working to set up several PUZZLE TIME programs in those facilities.
Vansh Zota has helped distribute the puzzles and will be organizing PUZZLE TIME in Northern New Jersey (Hudson/Bergen Counties). THANK YOU VERY MUCH Vansh and KONNEKT GLOBAL for helping us!
If you have a loved one in a facility in NJ and would like the PUZZLE TIME program please reach out to us at Kidcaregivers@gmail.com.
If you would like to volunteer please reach out to us.
I will be on the Roger That Podcast on May 20th. It is a weekly podcast focused on the caregiver.
Stay tuned for details about the show! Please tune in if you have a chance :-)
