Urge Larsen to co-sponsor Alzheimer's legislation

Dear Editor:

There are more than 110,000 residents of our state living with Alzheimer’s disease and more than 348,000 family members and friends are acting as unpaid caregivers. Fellow Washingtonians who joined the 1,200 attendees at the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement Advocacy Forum in April in Washington, DC, said Congress was listening to their explanation of the burden that Alzheimer’s places on our state and nation.

This advocacy is important to me because I lost my husband to Lewy Body Disease which began with Alzheimer’s and I know the heavy burden that families carry. Legislators were aske...