Alzheimer's Archives

We’ve got two new community events for 2017 added to the calendar. We’re partnering with the Boulder Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association to bring you an informative session on dementia and an 8-week support group for those newly diagnosed with early-stage Alzheimer’s as well as their family members and friends. View our events page for updates throughout the year.

Know the Ten Signs of Dementia – January 17, 2017
Join us as we partner with the Boulder chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association to present Knowing the Ten Signs of Dementia.

Please contact Heather Kanapackis at 303.813.1669 or by emailing hkanapackis@alz.org to reserve a spot for this presentation.

Location: Grief Services conference room inside the new TRU PACE/Grief Services building located at 2593 Park Lane in Lafayette.

Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Support Group
Meets Monday afternoons from Feb. 6 thru March 27, 2017 at the TRU PACE/Grief Services building located at 2593 Park Lane in Lafayette.

* NOTE: There is a brief screening process to ensure that the group is a good fit for everyone. If you are interested in attending the group and would like to schedule a screening interview please contact Heather Kanapackis at 303-813-1669 or hkanapackis@alz.org.

Early-stage support groups are offered to individuals with early memory loss (who have been diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment, Early Stage Alzheimer’s or a related disorder) AND their family and friends.

The Early Stage Support Group is an 8-week series that meets on Monday afternoons from Feb. 6 through March 27 where the same individuals meet every week to discuss different topics such as disclosing a diagnosis, communication, changing relationships, future planning, and more! The support groups are a safe and supportive environment where peers can offer emotional support, connections, and advice.

This group operates in a dyad model where the same curriculum is followed but individuals with early stage dementia meet in one room and care partners meet in another room.

The Nomad Playhouse in north Boulder has a new play premiering this weekend: The Outgoing Tide.

The Outgoing Tide is a straight-talking, unpretentious, and unexpectedly humorous story of one man’s struggles to stay in control of the end of his life as he contends with Alzheimers.

Gunner (Steve Grad), a hard-bitten man who ran a trucking company, is planning his exit and rejecting years of humiliating deterioration in a home. His response, “Quality of life… Kiss my ass.”

Peg (Abigail Wright) has lived with Gunner for 50 years. She’s a good Catholic girl whose caretaking of her family is sorely tested. Still she says,”It’s what I do.” She wants son Jack
(Bunk Hess) to help her convince Gunner to move to a continuous care facility.

Jack, caught in the middle of his parents struggle, has his own problems. Midway through a divorce and dealing with a difficult teen-age son, he also has old grudges about a father who teased and bullied him as a child and a mother who used to scare him with her exaggerated caution: “I know a boy who sat too close to the television and his eyeballs melted.”

We get to know them and see the situation from all three points of view.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light, Dylan Thomas wrote as he contemplated old age and death. Gunner, a character in The Outgoing Tide, is somewhat less poetic, yelling at his wife when she brings up the idea that they move into a rest home together: You got a better chance of seeing Christ direct traffic with a cigar in his mouth. ~ NY Times

This drama brings sensitive observation and minor-key humor to painful situations that many of us will recognize from our own families ~ NY Times

The Outgoing Tide has affection and respect for its characters, and pulls you into its story. The characters are well-drawn, the dialogue is pungentHow Gunner determines to take control of his own fate, make peace with Jack, and win over Peg to his end-of- life plan makes up the gist of the story. ~ Backstage

The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham, directed by James Carver, will play at the Nomad Playhouse in Boulder, CO.

7:30 pm September 23rd , 24th , 30th , Oct 1st , with a 2:30pm matinee on Sept 25th.

New Community Events for 2017

The Nomad Playhouse Premieres Alzheimer’s Play

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