{"id":1188,"date":"2011-03-01T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisavanderpump.com\/?page_id=1188"},"modified":"2022-07-27T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T01:53:13","slug":"charity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepmemoryalive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kma.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1261\" title=\"keep-memory-alive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kma.png 940w, https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/kma-300x87.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Founded in the late \u201890s by Nevada businessman Larry Ruvo in honor of his father who succumbed to Alzheimer\u2019s, Keep Memory Alive (KMA) has been quietly raising awareness and over $60 million in funds in its quest for enhanced treatments and ultimately the prevention of memory disorders of all kinds, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer\u2019s, Huntington\u2019s, and Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider these alarming facts about Alzheimer\u2019s disease alone:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2009, an estimated 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<br>In 2009, every 70 seconds someone in the United States develops Alzheimer\u2019s disease. By mid-century, someone will develop Alzheimer\u2019s every 33 seconds.<br>By 2050, as many as 16 million Americans could have Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Caring for those individuals may cost upwards of $500 billion annually and will likely bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid.<br>The average cost for the illness from diagnosis to death is $174,000 per patient, making Alzheimer\u2019s the third most expensive disease in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.keepmemoryalive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KeepMemoryAlive.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in the late \u201890s by Nevada businessman Larry Ruvo in honor of his father who succumbed to Alzheimer\u2019s, Keep Memory Alive (KMA) has been quietly raising awareness and over $60 million in funds in its quest for enhanced treatments and ultimately the prevention of memory disorders of all kinds, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1188\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurus.net\/lisavanderpump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}