Donna Wonders - Why Not a National Database?

By +Donna Giovannetti
+Alzheimer's Reading Room

I wish someone would/could create a website that was a national database of sorts of Alzheiemer's patients.

I'm just sitting around thinking about Alzheimer's  -- as usual.

What do you think? Is there a need for a National Database? Would you use it?

Please share your opinions and comments below in the comments section.

Walter, Donna's Dad

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Walter

• 68
• career air force
• avid scratch golfer
• athlete
• smoker (43 years)
• drank soda from aluminum cans for 40+ years
• relatively healthy eater with a major sweet tooth
• antisocial
• didn't go to church
• retired at 1988 – volunteered at my mother’s office but basically never employed again
• diagnosed in 2009 when he went missing in Baltimore (see Donna's incedible hair raising story - My Dad -- Missing and Found )
• moved to assisted living in March 2013
• moved to a nursing home in July 2013
• still walks constantly without stumbling. Still eats regularly and with gusto.
• is often sweet, happy and funny but also occasionally angry, combative and unruly.
• still loves music
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Donna Giovannetti is Director of Marketing and Broker Relations at Diversified Lenders Inc. in Lubbock, Texas.

Her father, Walter, suffers from Alzheimer's disease.


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