Accelerating Equity in Access to Alzheimer’s Education, Resources, and Support

BvB funds provide the staff and resources to achieve a 25% increase in engagement and access to dementia education, resources, and support in the Black/African American, Asian American Pacific Islander, and Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer or Questioning communities.
Dementia-Friendly Continuum of Care

BvB Dallas funds and supports Juliette Fowler’s initiatives that assist people with various levels of cognitive health. Programs such as “ I’m Still Here” as well as Dementia Friendly Dallas help create better awareness and care for caregivers and people with dementia here in Dallas.
Developing and Promoting Agency Wide Dementia Expertise

Funding from BVB Dallas will support ongoing programing of The Senior Source provided to enhance the well-being of older adults affected by Alzheimer’s related dementia as well as those who care for them, specifically through the agency’s Caregiver Support and Guardianship Programs.
Fellowship Funding

BvB Dallas will continue to partner with UT Southwestern Medical Center by funding the Clinical Neuropsychology Alzheimer’s Disease Fellowship, which provides the opportunity to rapidly develop expertise in differential diagnosis and treatment of dementia.
Diagnosis & Treatment Research

BvB will also support UT Southwestern in their research to diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease by optimizing and validating techniques to deliver human tau antibodies across the blood brain barrier in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s Infographics

10 Million women are either living with Alzheimer's or caring for someone who has it.
Almost 2/3 of Americans living with Alzheimer's are women.
Women in their 60s are more than TWICE AS LIKELY to develop Alzheimer's disease over the rest of their lives as they are to develop breast cancers.
MORE THAN 60% of Alzheimer's & dementia caregivers are women.
Women take on more caregiving tasks than their male counterparts - and care for people with more cognitive, functional, and/or behavioral problems.
Nearly 19% of women Alzheimer's caregivers had to quit work either to become a caregiver or because their caregiving duties became too burdensome.
2022 BvB Dallas & Alzheimer's Association

Accelerating Equity in Access to Alzheimer’s Education, Resources, and Support

Dementia-Friendly Continuum of Care

Developing and Promoting Agency Wide Dementia Expertise

Fellowship Funding

Diagnosis & Treatment Research

10 Million women are either living with Alzheimer's or caring for someone who has it.

Almost 2/3 of Americans living with Alzheimer's are women.

Women in their 60s are more than TWICE AS LIKELY to develop Alzheimer's disease over the rest of their lives as they are to develop breast cancers.

MORE THAN 60% of Alzheimer's & dementia caregivers are women.

Women take on more caregiving tasks than their male counterparts - and care for people with more cognitive, functional, and/or behavioral problems.

Nearly 19% of women Alzheimer's caregivers had to quit work either to become a caregiver or because their caregiving duties became too burdensome.

2022 BvB Dallas & Alzheimer's Association