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months for his upcoming charity
run through parts of Dutchess
County and across the Walkway
over the Hudson.
“I would like to say ‘thank you’
to my mother-in-law Helen for all
she has given me,’’ he said.
Pope said he doesn’t expect
many to join him on the road, but
he hopes they will support his
cause and make donations to help
other families with loved ones
who have Alzheimer’s disease.
Helen Droese, his mother-in-
law, died in 2007, eight years af-
ter an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Not
long after she retired, she began
forgetting the names of everyday
objects, and the memory loss
only worsened.
According to the Alzheimer’s
Association, memory loss that
disrupts daily life is one of the
symptoms of the disease. It dif-
fers from typical age-related
changes that involve things like
forgetting names but remember-
ing them later.
She was cared for by her hus-
band, Bill, and their three chil-
dren during the years she was ill.
Pope, married for 29 years to
their daughter, Donna, said it was
an incredible strain on all family
members.
“It’s a 24-hour-a-day job,’’ he
said. “If a family doesn’t have the
resources, they’re really stuck.’’
With an aging population and
the senior years of the baby
boomer generation on the hori-
zon, many more families will be
dealing with the disease in the fu-
ture, Alzheimer’s Association
projections show.
Pope said all of his in-laws have
been wonderful to him, and he
wanted to do something in return.
He wants the marathon-length
run to raise awareness that there
are resources available through
the Hudson Valley/Rockland/
Westchester chapter of the
Alzheimer’s Association.
Those who want to donate on
Pope’s behalf can contact that
branch, or send a check directly
to the branch.
His goal is $100,000, and all
money will go directly to the
Alzheimer’s Association.
I waited with my son Brian at his
school bus stop that morning. I no-
ticed a hazy morning fog that
seemed to deepen and darken over
the 10 minutes we were there.
How odd, I thought. I’d never no-
ticed such a sight.
By the time Brian climbed on
the bus, the fog was thick and
dense. Yet, just as quickly as it
came, it began to lift and unveil the
most stunning clear and blue sky.
It was the most pleasant and beau-
tiful day of the year.
Sept. 11, 2001, the day that
brought us such wretched actions
and emotions, would remain beau-
tiful in such a twisted and cruel
way. Some would say it was to
laugh in our faces. For others, it
was a reminder that life can be
both cruel and beautiful, and that
there is forever hope in uniting to-
gether for a better tomorrow.
The national Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention identified
five major accomplishments we
have made in public health since
Sept. 11, 2001, and the anthrax at-
tacks.
a global perspective: Terror-
ism and pandemic threats don’t re-
spect geographic borders. A num-
ber of programs have been created
to rapidly detect and contain
emerging health threats, including
those from bioterrorism. Specifi-
cally, CDC has developed a Global
Disease Detection system which
focuses on building local capacity
to better support global efforts.
Enhancing preparedness, detec-
tion as well as response has been
key to the early identification of
threats and illnesses where they
emerge and before they have a
chance to spread globally.
improved communication and
information sharing: New sys-
tems have been developed and im-
proved, such as Epi-X, which
shares up-to-date information
about outbreaks around the coun-
try. The Health Alert Network lets
health officials have access and
share information quickly. (Al-
though the network was developed
prior to Sept. 11, 2001, it was nev-
er used until that day. The first of-
ficial notice from the HAN was
about the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon.)
Additionally, every state has im-
proved its relationships, created
more detailed preparedness plans
and conducted exercises with all
key emergency management offi-
cials, bringing together law en-
forcement, fire departments,
EMS, hospitals, nursing homes,
mental health facilities, home care
as well as our judges and elected
officials.
establishment and expansion
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HealthyLiving
How we’ve
prepared
better since
Sept. 11
support groups 5e | heAlth events CAlendAr 5e
by Kathleen norton
For the poughkeepsie Journal
Bill Pope chuckled a bit recent-
ly when he said not many people
would run a marathon in honor of
their mothers-in-law.
But turning serious, he ex-
plained his late mother-in-law was
special and that she’s the reason
for his Sept. 17, 26.2-mile
fundraising “Alzheimer’s Run for
Helen.’’
“I’m doing this to raise money
and awareness,’’ said Pope of La-
Grangeville, who has trained forsee caldWell, 3e
by Kathleen norton
For the poughkeepsie Journal
Karen Hauptman, Bill Pope,
Jessica Federico and Sabeen
Khan come from different gener-
ations and walks of life, but they
all have something powerful in
common.
The four are raising the Hud-
son Valley’s awareness about the
devastating effects of
Alzheimer’s disease, the desper-
ate need for a cure and the array
of resources available to those
with the fatal brain disorder and
to their families.
Karen Hauptman, 34, of Hyde
Park, said she sees so many fam-
ilies touched by the disease, yet it
doesn’t seem to get as much at-
tention or money for research as
other serious illnesses, possibly
because some may be hesitant to
talk about it.
A seven-year volunteer for the
Poughkeepsie-based Hudson Val-
ley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s
Association, she chairs the plan-
ning committee for the upcoming
annual fall fundraising walk on
Oct. 15 in Poughkeepsie.
“We need to bring attention to it
and an awareness about how
many people this disease truly af-
fects,’’ she said. Her grandmoth-
er, Mildred Butler, died in 2008 of
Alzheimer’s. At the beginning,
she was misdiagnosed and hospi-
talized for a psychiatric disorder.
More awareness and education
might also prevent a misdiagno-
sis from happening to others,
Loved ones of Alzheimer’s patients
raise awareness of growing disease
see PoPe, 2e
see alZheimer’s, 2e
dr. michael caldWell
to your heAlth
Families walk for cure
Bill Pope of LaGrangeville is run-
ning a marathon to raise aware-
ness of Alzheimer's disease and
money for the Alzheimer's
Association. Courtesy photo
Mother-in-law inspires runner
on the Web
» to join the run or donate, visit:
www.tinyurl.com/
helensfriends
» When you hit the “donate’’
button, you will be linked directly
to the Alzheimer's Association.
» Alzheimer’s Association:
www.alz.org/index.asp
» Bill pope’s blog:
www.billpope.com/blog
» resources and walk locations
» 10 signs of Alzheimer’s
» Alzheimer’s and the boomer
generation
more inside
Fred and Sue
Christiansen of
Clinton Corners
at the 2009
Alzheimer's walk.
Fred has
Alzheimer’s dis-
ease. He, his wife
and their family
walk every year
in Dutchess
County. Courtesy
photo

2. of federal resources: The
Laboratory Response Net-
work has expanded our
country’s capacity to per-
form tests to detect and con-
firm the presence of biolog-
ic threat agents such as an-
thrax or a new pandemic flu.
Prior to Sept. 11, 2001, the
CDC lab in Atlanta was the
only lab to perform such so-
phisticated tests. The Strate-
gic National Stockpile helps
ensure key medical supplies
and medicines are available
so every state can quickly
request, receive and distrib-
ute needed items as quickly
as possible.
Federal funding for
states and localities: Signif-
icant investments have been
made in state and local pre-
paredness and response in-
frastructures. Dutchess
County has received be-
tween $200,000 and $300,000
each year since 2002 to im-
prove our efforts locally.
We are very concerned
continued funding is threat-
ened by the current econom-
ic crisis; however, we have
made major institutional
changes that have become
part of our routine. We are a
much stronger, connected
and resilient organization
than we have ever been.
Much of this money helps
support our ongoing pre-
paredness activities, includ-
ing outbreak investigations,
risk communication and
trainings with all our partner
organizations in the commu-
nity.
emergence of public
health as an equal emer-
gency responder partner: I
was privileged to represent
the National Association of
County & City Health Offi-
cials to testify at a hearing in
the United States Senate on
Dec. 11, 2001. (Read my tes-
timony at: http://hsgac.sen-
ate.gov/121101caldwell.htm)
For the first time, public
health leaders sat next to our
more traditional emergency
response partners such as
fire, police and EMS.
We had entered a new age
and a new maturity recog-
nizing public health as a key
first-responder partner that
continues emerging today.
The Dutchess County chiefs
of police invited me to join
their organization as they
understood public health and
law enforcement need to be
in close coordinated commu-
nication.
I attend the chiefs’ meet-
ings throughout the year.
Our Dutchess County De-
partment of Emergency Re-
sponse has key employees
who work hand in hand with
our Department of Public
Health employees each and
every day. The National Re-
sponse Framework and the
National Incident Manage-
ment System are the “play-
books” that federal, state
and local responders use to
plan for and to respond to
emergencies. Public health
is now clearly established as
a key partner, strengthening
our communities’ ability to
respond to disasters.
our local approach: Since
most public health programs
contribute to preparedness,
the Dutchess County Health
Department incorporated
our existing programs into a
county-wide emergency re-
sponse plan. The plan in-
cludes various public health
issues and documents the
preparation and training of
our staff to respond.
We brought written policy
to life when we created the
Collaborative Outbreak Re-
sponse Team, or “CORe”
team in 2007, and we were
able to practice these plans
as part of our typical job du-
ties. In addition, the CORe
Team meets regularly to re-
ceive training on a variety of
issues, ranging from a food-
borne illness outbreak in a
local restaurant to a vaccine-
preventable disease out-
break in a children’s camp
setting.
We have successfully
cross-trained our profes-
sional and support staff to
work with public health chal-
lenges and to drill these for-
mal plans, utilizing the Na-
tional Incident Management
System principles.
After September 2001, we
soon realized an event could
easily exhaust our manpow-
er resources and we would
need trained civilian volun-
teers to support the delivery
of medical care and servic-
es. As a result, the Medical
Reserve Corps was founded
to enlist both medical and
non-medical volunteers to
help us respond to public
health emergencies.
In Dutchess County, we
are extremely fortunate to
have a vibrant group of peo-
ple from a broad spectrum
of professions and back-
grounds who make up the
Dutchess County Medical
Reserve Corps. With more
than 300 people registered in
our Medical Reserve Corps
and continuous training op-
portunities, we are striving
to ensure all the prepared-
ness and response plans will
be effectively delivered in
the event of any large-scale
incident.
During the 2009 H1N1 flu
pandemic, more than 100
Medical Reserve Corps vol-
unteers provided their time
and expertise to assist with
the inoculation of thousands
of residents. Volunteers
manned inoculation clinics,
fielded phone calls,
processed paperwork and
provided backup to medical
professionals.
We encourage all county
residents to consider joining
the Dutchess County Med-
ical Reserve Corps . You can
learn more and register di-
rectly by going to:
http://bit.ly/DutchessMRC
While we hope never to
experience anything like
Sept. 11, 2001, again, we will
continue as a county, a state
and as a nation to strive to
improve our strong public
health workforce in a coor-
dinated way with all of our
other emergency response
partners. We will protect our
community’s health, and we
are prepared to detect, re-
spond and recover from
whatever public health
threats we may encounter.
The Dutchess County De-
partment of Health stands
ready with you each and
every day. Learn more about
this and other issues at
dutchessny.gov and check
out the resources in the
breakout box.
Dr. Michael Caldwell is the
Dutchess County commissioner
of health. His column is pub-
lished the second Sunday of
each month. Send questions or
comments via email to health-
info@co.dutchess.ny.us. Public
Health Preparedness
Coordinator Barabara Zelie,
and Assistant Emergency
Response Coordinator Cathi
Tegtmeier contributed to this
article.
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1. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention Emergency
Prearedness and Response:
emergency.cdc.gov
2. U.S. Department of
Homeland Security: dhs.gov
3. U.S. Department of Health
and Human
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4. FEMA: ready.gov