Abler: Equality For the Disabled Blog

The photos used in all graphics for this post and our socialmedia platforms are the personal property of Avery Wickersham. Graphics were made using canva.com There’s no doubt that Colorado has a wide breadth of incredible tourist traps for every season of the year. There’s 300 average days of sunshine, plains out east, mountains out west, and a buzzing metro area in between—Colorado is nothing if not sundry! As a native of Colorado, I’ve had the great pleasure of visiting many of these places, venturing hours into the mountains or minutes into the city to find places to enjoy time with family and friends.  When I was eighteen months old, I was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, later renamed Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, until finally, I turned eighteen. Once I hit eighteen, it was just Rheumatoid Arthritis. Growing up with a disease like this makes a lot of the activities Colorado has to offer difficult, to say the least. I’m very grateful to still have use of my body, and

Resources used: alz.org   Author Note: I am in no a professional of any kind. I am strongly against self-diagnosis, and encourage my audience to please seek the professional advice of their own trusted medical professional and any other trusted professional depending on the topic at hand. The Abler Blog:  ONLY PROVIDES LIMITED GENERAL INFORMATION. AND  ALWAYS CITES WHERE THEY FIND THEIR RESOURCES AND OR INFORMATION. T here are approximately fifty-million people worldwide with Alzheimers or other dementias. What is Alzheimers? It is a degenerative brain disease. It is also the most common form of dementia. Rather being a specific disease, it is more of an overall term that describes a group of symptoms.  The 10 signs for early detection of the disease. Memory loss that disrupts the person’s daily life IE. Forgetting information just learned. Specific events vs forgetting a name or number, but later remembering it. Finding Challenges in planning/problem solving IE, the person