November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month
November 3, 2025: Alzheimer’s Update: hear the latest on diagnosis and care for people with Alzheimer’s disease presented by Dr. David Geldmacher. MD. Vestavia Library in the Woods, 1221 Montgomery Highway, 6 – 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public.
About our presenter: A UAB Professor of Neurology, widely respected in the field of memory disorders and Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Geldmacher is the Warren Family Endowed Chair in Neurology and Director of the Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology in the Department of Neurology at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. He leads UAB’s Brain Aging and Memory Clinic program, which focuses on the interdisciplinary care of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.
November 8, 2025. Walking to Remember, ACA’s Parking Lot
Celebrating Happy Days! Join us for ACA’s annual Walking to Remember event, 300 Office Park Drive. Registration begins at 9 am and the Walk gets underway at 10 am. Bring families and friends to help raise money for ACA’s service programs. Walkers donating a minimum of $50 receive a short-sleeved t-shirt. Walkers raising a minimum of $75 receive a long-sleeved shirt. Walkers donating a minimum of $100 receive a shirt of their choice and a special gift (while supplies last). Music, food, fun and a vintage car show. https://alzca.org/walking/
Alzheimer’s Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Sunday, November 9. Visit alzca.org/prayer for a copy of the prayer.
November 20, 2025. The Challenges and Gifts of Caregiving for a Loved One Living With Dementia, presented by Renée Brown Harmon, MD, and Beverly E. Thorn, Ph.D. Vestavia Library in the Woods, 1221 Montgomery Highway, 1 – 3 pm. Free and open to the public.
About the presentation: Providing care for a loved one living with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia comes with many emotional, physical, and practical challenges. There are also unexpected gifts along the way. Our presenters will share their personal experiences in caring for their respective husbands, both the challenges and the gifts, and offer hard-won wisdom they have gained on their journeys.
About our presenters:
Renée Brown Harmon, MD
Beverly E. Thorn, PhD
Renée Brown Harmon, MD
After retiring from a thirty-year career as a family medicine physician, Harmon published Surfing the Waves of Alzheimer’s: Principles of Caregiving That Kept Me Upright in 2020, a teaching memoir about her late husband’s time with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Life Hikes: Walking Through Loss to What Comes After, published in November 2025, is an essay collection that explores grief, courage, and the healing power of nature.
Beverly E. Thorn, PhD
In Before I Lose My Own Mind, Thorn – a psychologist, neuroscientist, and end-of-life doula – provides an honest vision of caregiving for her husband that is tender, openhearted, and genuinely useful. Filled with resources and insights on later life planning, advance care directives, clinical trials, support groups, death with dignity, grief, recovery, and more, this book is a road map for all caregivers, whether they’re family or friends, spouses or adult children, professionals or novices.
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