{"id":109,"date":"2025-09-13T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?p=109"},"modified":"2025-10-18T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:30:59","slug":"why-we-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/2025\/09\/13\/why-we-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why We Walk:\u00a0<\/strong> On behalf of the more than 6 million Americans living with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, thank you for rallying around a cause that affects 1 in 3 seniors in the communities where you work and live.\u00a0 As a Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s National Team, NARFE will form teams and raise funds for Walks across the country, earning national recognition benefits in <strong>return.<\/strong>\u00a0 The funds raised will advance the care, support, and research efforts of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association.\u00a0 Your team donations will play an essential role in improving the lives of people living with Alzheimer\u2019s, their families, and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>Again, thank you for making an impact in the fight.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/about-us\/program-chairs\/alzheimers\/\"><strong>The end of Alzheimer\u2019s starts with YOU!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE members help power new strides in Alzheimer&#8217;s Treatment and Research.  Following years of sustained growth in philanthropic support and federal funding for dementia research, the national goal of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer&#8217;s disease by 2026 is within reach.  Thanks to the efforts of our NARFE Community, let&#8217;s walk in 2025 as we accomplish our goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2025\/09\/alzheimers-walk.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}