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Candle Lighting Ceremony to Commemorate National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 22, 2014) -- The University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging will hold a National Commemorative Candle Lighting service at 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 9.

The service will be held in the Fellowship Hall at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 541 Jefferson Street in Lexington.   It is free and open to the public.

The National Commemorative Candle Lighting is an annual event sponsored by the Alzheimer's Foundation of America to remember and honor people who have been or will be affected by Alzheimer's disease or related illnesses. It is held each November in recognition of National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month.

"The ceremony is designed to bring together individuals from different backgrounds as we stand united lighting ‘candles of care’," said Sarah Smith, a research assistant at Sanders-Brown.  "Our hope is that by uniting as one we will be able to show all of those affected by this devastating disease that they are not in this fight alone." 

If you have someone you would like to honor during the recital of names in memory and recognition, please call Sarah Smith at 859-323-6316 or give the written name to a Sanders-Brown staff member at the beginning of the ceremony.