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Alzheimer's Foundation of America Announces 2009 College Scholarship Winner
Date:5/12/2009

student in Arcadia, CA, recently led a school-wide project that involved planting forget-me-nots and holding an educational assembly, and a teenager on Staten Island, NY, next month will host a dinner to honor local caregivers.

"Through AFA Teens, these teens have come to realize they are not alone. They have found their voice and are drawing upon the support of AFA to reach teens like themselves who otherwise may not come forward," said Eric J. Hall, AFA's president and chief executive officer.

Many teens are motivated to take part in AFA Teens after helping provide care for loved ones. According to a survey by the National Alliance for Caregiving and United Hospital Fund, more than one million children nationwide care for sick or disabled parents and grandparents; Alzheimer's disease and related dementias were the most prevalent illnesses.

Evident of the countless number of teens touched by Alzheimer's disease, more than 1,500 college-bound students applied for AFA's $5,000 college scholarship this year.

AFA established the annual scholarship so that teens could use the opportunity to reflect on how they have come to terms with the illness and in doing so have grown in their understanding of the disease itself and available resources.

The first runner-up in the 2009 competition is Jessica Curran, Peterborough, NH, and the second runner-up is Courtney Henley, Westbury, NY.

Henley helps care for her father, Michael, who has young onset Alzheimer's disease, a rarer form of dementia that affects people as young as in their 30s and 40s.

"The disease has so greatly impacted my life," she noted. "I thought that it would be not only fun but fulfilling to use my experiences to raise awareness and show people that something good can come out of situations such as these."

According to Hall, "The powerful essays written by these teens as we
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