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Proclamation - Alzheimer's Awareness Month January 2025

Published: January 1, 2025

PROCLAMATION

Alzheimer's Awareness Month

January 2025

WHEREAS There are an estimated 16,000 people living with dementia in Nova Scotia; and

WHEREAS It is projected that the number of people living with dementia in Nova Scotia will increase by 87% with nearly 30,000 people likely to be living with dementia by 2050; and

WHEREAS The Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia is committed to alleviating the personal and social consequences of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias and to promoting the search for the causes, and cures.

THEREFORE, be it resolved that I, Greg Henley, Mayor, Town of Oxford, do hereby declare January as Alzheimer's Awareness Month in the Town of Oxford.

Dated at Oxford, Nova Scotia

January 1, 2025