{"id":412,"date":"2021-06-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/?p=412"},"modified":"2021-06-16T22:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T22:51:13","slug":"the-longest-day-june-20th-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/the-longest-day-june-20th-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Day \u2013 June 20th, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“The Longest Day Tribute to My Mom and Dad”
By Tanya Benjamin, Resident and Family Services
tanya.benjamin@ciminocare.com<\/a><\/p>

Shine a Light on Alzheimer’s<\/p>

In celebration of the lives of my Mother, Father and many others, it is an honor to support this worthy cause on the same day as the Summer Solstice.<\/p>

My Father was diagnosed with dementia in 2008, then confirmed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease several years later. In 2017, he started to have episodes of focal onset seizures, which was confirmation of his entering the 7th stage of dementia. He passed away several months later which, considering his suffering, was a Blessing.<\/p>

My Mother was also diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease. She is still with us today and suffers from the softer or more mild mannered changes of the disease. To this day, she is still the sweetest human I have ever met.<\/p>

On June 20, please join us and people across the world in fighting the darkness of Alzheimer\u2019s through posts or a fundraising activity of your choice.<\/p>

God Bless All,
Tanya Maria Benjamin<\/p>

How You Can Help<\/span>
Join the cause to raise awareness and funds to provide care, support and research for those affected by Alzheimer\u2019s by participating in The Longest Day. Celebrated every Summer Solstice during Alzheimer\u2019s & Brain Awareness Month in June, The Longest Day campaign invites you to post a selfie on social media using the hashtags #ENDALZ and #TheLongestDay. Join or start a fundraising activity, register and find more information from The Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/a>.<\/p>

Together, we can Shine a Light on the fight against Alzheimer’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tanya Benjamin, Resident & family Services for Portola Gardens, shares her story for The Longest Day campaign. Started by the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, The Longest Day encourages those with loved ones affected by Alzheimer\u2019s to join the cause & get creative to raise awareness and fund to find Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ciminocare.com\/portola-gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}