The Quality of Life Grant seeks to reduce the financial burden of families dealing with ALS. The program will provide financial assistance for expenses such as respite care, communication devices, home modifications, medical care, and more. The Quality of Life Grant is funded through The Community of Angels Fund, which aims to help maintain the highest quality of life for individuals living with ALS, despite their diagnosis.
The Quality of Life Grant seeks to reduce the financial burden of families dealing with ALS. The program will provide financial assistance for expenses such as respite care, communication devices, home modifications, medical care, and more. The Quality of Life Grant is funded through The Community of Angels Fund, which aims to help maintain the highest quality of life for individuals living with ALS, despite their diagnosis.
The Quality of Life Grant seeks to reduce the financial burden of families dealing with ALS. The program will provide financial assistance for expenses such as respite care, communication devices, home modifications, medical care, and more. The Quality of Life Grant is funded through The Community of Angels Fund, which aims to help maintain the highest quality of life for individuals living with ALS, despite their diagnosis.
The Quality of Life Grant seeks to reduce the financial burden of families dealing with ALS. The program will provide financial assistance for expenses such as respite care, communication devices, home modifications, medical care, and more. The Quality of Life Grant is funded through The Community of Angels Fund, which aims to help maintain the highest quality of life for individuals living with ALS, despite their diagnosis.
Bad things happen to good people every day. That’s just the nature of life. But it doesn’t mean we stop living and loving. My ALS story officially started on a warm fall afternoon in September 2001. I had been having difficulties with speaking and swallowing for several months. After more than two months of seeing about a dozen different medical professionals, and having more tests than one can imagine, I sat in the small examination room of a local neurologist.
We talked with Dr. Miriam Linsenmeier, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, to learn more about her research, as well as her interests outside the lab.
Dr. Laura Ranum, director of the University of Florida’s Center for NeuroGenetics and the Kitzman Family Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, is currently conducting a phase 2 trial for C9orf72-linked familial ALS with support from the Association’s Clinical Trial Awards Program.
Dozens of friends, family members and supporters of former Auburn Auburn City Councilor Peter Ruzicka drove past his home on Sunday morning to offer encouragement in his fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Well-wishers gathered at Emerson Park and drove past Ruzicka's current home on East Lake Road in Owasco.