Defeat Dementia

Join the fight against degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and non-AD dementias including frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and others.

The Defeat Dementia campaign seeks to help educate the public by generating broader national awareness of the diseases that lead to dementia. With your participation, our hope is that increased public awareness will lead to early detection among patients, caregivers and health professionals and more participation in research and clinical trials.
NOTE: Members may not dispense or offer to dispense medical advice.

Join the Fight to Find a Cure
Copy and paste the code below into your website, blog or e-mail to show you support finding a cure for dementia. Then help us spread the word by inviting family, friends and other bloggers to get their own badge or banner and join the fight today.

Connect With Others
Let your friends on Facebook know you've joined the fight to Defeat Dementia or follow us on Twitter. Everything you do adds up to more awareness, funds for vital research and support programs for people affected by dementia.
   

Get the Defeat Dementia Widget
Show your support by installing the Defeat Dementia blog sidebar widget on your blog. Just click where it says "get & share."

Learn About Dementia
Visit our YouTube channel to hear from caregivers, doctors, nurses and counselors about frontotemporal dementia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Alzheimer's disease and others.

Participate in Research
Find research studies and clinical trials that are looking for participants.

Donate
To make a secure donation to Defeat Dementia through the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, click on the icon below. All gifts are tax-deductible.

We gratefully acknowledge the following organizations that provide a majority of the funds that support research at the Memory and Aging Center:

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• National Institute on Aging (NIA)
• California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
• Larry L. Hillblom Foundation
• John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation
• Koret Family Foundation
• McBean Family Foundation

Defeat Dementia in the News

• UCSF Memory and Aging Center uses YouTube to help those affected by dementia in the San Francisco Examiner on May 27, 2009
• The UCSF Memory and Aging Center's efforts to educate the public via its YouTube channel and Facebook page are cited in a May 25 New York Times article on medical centers' use of social media. Bruce Miller, MD, the A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Neurology and director of the UCSF center, discusses the goals of generating participation in clinical trials and educating caregivers about the symptoms of the various forms of dementia in order to get patients into treatment quickly.
• Clearspring Takes Top Spot Among Widget Networks in MarketingVox on October 28, 2008
• UCSF Memory and Aging Center in Alzheimer's Reading Room on September 4, 2008
• Academic Medical Centers Embark on Public Outreach Through the Internet in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association on September 9, 2008
• UCSF creates popular YouTube channel by Kristen Sze of KGO-TV San Francisco/ABC7 News on August 4, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube Offer Unique Educational Channel on Dementia by Carrie Hill, PhD on the Alzheimer's Disease Blog on July 25, 2008
• Silicon Valley leaders debut YouTube medical channel by JD Lasica on Socialmedia.biz on June 20, 2008
• Bay Area med centers develop tests for dementia by Erin Allday of the San Francisco Chronicle on July 19, 2008 (print and online)
• UCSF links with patients, donors via YouTube by Roland Piquepaille on SmartMobs on July 13, 2008
• New Online Dementia Resources from UCSF by Anthony Risser of BrainBlog on July 8, 2008
• UCSF links with patients, donors via YouTube by Chris Rauber of the San Francisco Business Times on July 4, 2008 (online and in print on July 7, 2008)
• Medicine and care - how the Web can help by Dick Stroud on 50-Plus Marketing on July 3, 2008
• Search Giants Rule Video by Daisy Whitney on New Media Minute by TVWeek.com on July 2, 2008 (starts at 0:54 on the counter)
• More on my column about Mike Homer and the UCSF social media campaign by Chris O'Brien on his blog on June 25, 2008
• "O'Brien: Harnessing Social Media to Find a Cure" by Chris O'Brien in the San Jose Mercury News on June 25, 2008
• Medical School, YouTube Team to Fight Neurological Diseases by Brad King of Marketing Shift on June 20, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube create novel channel to drive medical research by Olusola Oyewola on Solomon's VoIP World on June 20, 2008
• UCSF Memory & Aging Center channel on YouTube & ‘Fight for Mike’ by Attila Csordás of Pimm-Partial Immortalization on June 19, 2008
• UCSF's dementia effort launches with YouTube by Jaimy Lee of PR Week on June 19, 2008 (print and online)
• YouTube Put to Good Use by Jennifer Huget of the Washington Post's "The Checkup" on June 18, 2008
• Neurodegenerative brain diseases on YouTube display — the formation of biocitizenship through the participatory web by Thomas of Biomedicine on Display on June 18, 2008
• Driving Medical Research Via YouTube on Medical News Today on June 18, 2008
• Learn About Memory & Aging on YouTube by Dan Colman of OpenCulture on June 18, 2008
• YouTube joins Silicon Valley's 'Fight for Mike' by Liz Tay on iTnews on June 18, 2008
• Driving Medical Research Via YouTube and Facebook by Barbara Duck on EMRUpdate.com on June 18, 2008
• Driving Medical Research Via YouTube and Facebook by Barbara Duck on The Medical Quack on June 18, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube create novel channel to drive medical research on MedicExchange.com on June 18, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube Educate the Public about Neurodegenerative Diseases by Converge on June 18, 2008
• Fight Brain Disease Online by Natali Del Conte on the CNET TV show "Loaded" (starts at 2:40 on the counter) on June 17, 2008
• YouTube and The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) launch brain health channel by Eric Eldon on VentureBeat on June 17, 2008
• Support Mike and Brain Research by John Battelle on Searchblog on June 17, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube Partner Up for Education on Dementia on medGadget on June 17, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube Partner Up for Education on Dementia on Healthedia on June 17, 2008
• UCSF Tackles Dementia with Video, Widget-Based Outreach in MarketingVox on June 17, 2008
• YouTube channel, Facebook group aim to fight dementia, other diseases by Fabio Gratton of IgniteBLOG on June 17, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube Launch a New Video Channel Aimed at Defeating Brain Disease by Max Gladwell of Max Gladwell: Social Media and Green Living on June 17, 2008
• A Personal Note: Pause & Read by Om Malik on GigaOm on June 16, 2008 (this story also ran on NewTeeVee's Vid-Biz)
• YouTube and Mike Homer by Kara Swisher in BoomTown/All Things Digital on June 16, 2008 (this story also ran on Yahoo! Finance)
• UCSF and YouTube Launch Channel Dedicated to Educating the Public About Neurodegenerative Diseases on Bloomberg.com on June 16, 2008
• "Fight for Mike" moves to YouTube by Owen Thomas in Valleywag on June 16, 2008
• "Defeat Dementia" campaign by Dennis Haarsager (the CEO of NPR) in Technology360 on June 16, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube Launch Channel Dedicated to Educating the Public About Neurodegenerative Diseases on Reuters on June 16, 2008 (this story also ran on Bio-Medicine, Therapeutics and PharmaLive.com)
• UCSF Launches 'Dementia' Channel on YouTube by Elizabeth Jensen of Ad Age on June 16, 2008
• YouTube helps UCSF in Launching Channel for Educating the Masses About Neurodegenerative Diseases by Arvind Arora on TMCnet on June 16, 2008
• University of California, San Francisco embraces web 2.0 for health information on News-Medical.Net on June 16, 2008 (this story also ran on Topix and The San Francisco Examiner)
• Awareness shout out by Cynthia Turner on Cynopsis Marketing News on June 16, 2008
• UCSF and YouTube create novel channel to drive medical research on GEN on June 16, 2008 (this story also ran on PhysOrg.com)
• UCSF and YouTube Launch Channel Dedicated to Educating the Public About Neurodegenerative Diseases on PRWeb on June 16, 2008 (this story also ran on Boston.com, eMediaWire, Yahoo! News, The Earth Times and HighBeam)
• Intelligent Life at YouTube: 80 Educational Video Collections by Dan Colman of OpenCulture on March 13, 2008

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