Glen Cove Council Member looks to provide tools to educate the population on Alzheimer’s

Glen Cove is known as an “age-friendly community,” in part because of its senior center and its easy access to brain health education, Alaina Nathan, senior manager of programs at the Alzheimer’s Association’s Long Island Chapter, said.  Nathan is working with the city on a presentation about Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, which will be open to the public from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at city hall Nov. 19. While preparing for the presentation, Nathan called the city “ahead of its time” for its support to its aging population.  “I wish more communities would do what they're doing in many ways,” Nathan said.  She initially connected with Glen Cove through her mother’s church and learned that the city received the age-friendly community designation more than ten years ago. She said the city had to complete a rigorous process to obtain the designation and continues to make Glen Cove a place that supports all ages.  The city applied to become an age-friendly community