The Virtual Quilt Patch

The names on the purple patches popping up on web pages, blogs, social networking sites, and in emails, and are in remembrance of people who have/had Alzheimer's disease. Our goal for World Alzheimer's Day (September 21) is to raise awareness of the 5.2 million Americans (26.6 million people worldwide) who have this disease.

We are the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, a grassroots, totally volunteer, Internet-driven effort to raise awareness and fund research through art.

Create a Patch with the name of a person you know who has/had Alzheimer's. It will link back to this page, and if you tell us where you put your patch, we'll link back to you! Let us know the person(s) for whom you have created a virtual quilt patch. Their name (and link) will become a list of names so that all can see how many people this disease is taking.

To make this project work, we need as many Virtual Quilt Patches to be created and linked as possible. Please send an email to your family, friends, co-workers, clients to the place where they can see your Virtual Quilt Patch and to this page so that they can participate.