Former Delegate Karen Darner reached out to Conner & Smith this past week after seeing Kaleidoscope at Creative Cauldron in 2016. Karen is involved with Alzheimer's advocacy and ALZ.org and invited us to a small meeting with VA State Representative Don Beyer on Friday, January 24.
We discussed the show, Kaleidoscope, which presents music therapy as an asset to one who is losing the capability to remember their life's journey.
After hearing the touching stories of the group about bills for Early on-set, Representative Beyer agreed to move these motions forward.
Also discussed were the possibilities to hold a regional forum/conference on ALZ that would have Kaleidoscope as an anchor of that conference. We hope that this remains a possibility moving forward, and hope that Kaleidoscope's footprint helps to keep advocacy and education about the disease moving forward in the future.
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