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Date: May 12, 2014 Item: 10.a ACT . °� Roseville ALZHEIMER'S FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kitty Gogins (651) 481-0500 kgo gins @mindspring. com Roseville Community Receives Grant to Advance Dementia-Friendly Work Roseville, Minn. (April 9, 2014) — The Roseville community has been awarded an $8,000 grant through ACT on Alzheimer's to help make Roseville a more welcoming community for people with dementia. A group of Roseville community members, organizations, municipal staff and ISD 623 school district personnel has been warking for the past eight months to help the growing number of residents with dementia. This group, called the Roseville Alzheimer's and Dementia Community Action Team, applied for the ACT on Alzheimer's grant as one important vehicle to achieve their goal. Roseville is one of 12 new action communities to receive grants to help prepare Minnesota for the growing number of people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The Alzheimer's Association estimates there are 88,000 Minnesotans age 65 and older with the disease and thousands more with other dementias. Roseville's grant is funded through Blue Plus, a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Medica Foundation, and Greater Twin Cities United Way. ACT on Alzheimer's is a volunteer-driven, statewide collaboration of more than 60 organizations preparing Minnesota for the personal, social and financial impacts of Alzheimer's. Warking with communities striving to become dementia-friendly is one of ACT's key strategies. "The new communities build on the exciting wark being done by the seven pilot action communities," said Olivia Mastry, executive lead for ACT on Alzheimer's. "The goal is to provide community support for those with dementia and their caregivers, allowing people to live in their communities for as long as possible. That helps everyone— families and taxpayers who pay for institutional care, employers who have workers trying to balance all the demands of caregiving, and the individuals themselves." Some areas of focus in the new communities will include inter-generational outreach, engaging new immigrants to Minnesota and warking with faith communities.