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Your Community Staff Greetings everyone!

We’ve got a great March lined up for you! This month we’ll be June Ritota celebrating St. Patrick’s day with a big Party at 2:45 on the 17th. We will eat skins and drink non-alcoholic Executive Director cocktails and sing along with Ralph Ratti as he presents his Irish music show. So get ready to dance, and have a great Barbara West time! Families and friends are invited, so be sure to join us. We will doing a really fun arts & craft for St. Patrick’s Day as Director of Administration & HR well. Barbara West We start the month with our Scenic Ride to the park or the beach, then pet therapy with Marlene & Kelsey on Director of Nursing Wednesday’s, and pet therapy with Monica & Ziggy every other Sunday along with entertainment! We will have a Kelly Needle cooking class with Kelly on Thursday’s. Then, we are going to go outside and take a morning walk on Monday’s. The Rabbi Amenities Coordinator will be here every Friday for Shabbat Service. Don’t forget about our Scenic Rides on Fridays, too!! Also, we will be Ralph Holmes going to a delicious lunch at Chili’s on March 27. We are going to try something new this month, a Spelling Bee for Director of Food & Beverage Prizes, and so much more! It’s going to be a great month here at the Cyrus Building!!! Hector Perez Also, I thought I would share with all of you an article on the new Alzheimer's treatment on the horizon. Please check it out! Director of Maintenance

Please don’t hesitate to contact Kelly Needle, Activities Coordinator The Meaning of St. Patrick’s Day

Greetings everyone! We’re having a big St. Patrick’s Day Party this month so we thought it would be fun to take a look at the origins of St. Patrick’s Day to see why we celebrate the holiday! St. Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick the foremost patron saint of .

Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Lutheran Church. The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of , and celebrates the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals, and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks. Christians who belong to liturgical denominations also attend church services and historically the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol were lifted for the day, which has encouraged and propagated the holiday's tradition of alcohol consumption.

Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the ,,the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Brazil, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, especially amongst Irish diaspora. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival.Modern celebrations have been greatly influenced by those of the Irish diaspora, particularly those that developed in North America. However, there has been criticism of Saint Patrick's Day celebrations for having become too commercialized and for fostering negative stereotypes of the .

The most common St Patrick's Day symbol is the shamrock. The shamrock is the leaf of the clover plant and a symbol of the Holy Trinity. Many people choose to wear the color green and the flag of the Republic of Ireland is often seen in St Patrick’s Day parades around the world. Irish brands of drinks are popular at St Patrick’s Day events. Religious symbols include snakes and serpents, as well as the Celtic cross. Some say that Saint Patrick added the Sun, a powerful Irish symbol, onto the Christian cross to create what is now called a Celtic cross. Other Irish-related symbols seen on St Patrick’s Day include the harp, which was used in Ireland for centuries, as well as a mythological creature known as the leprechaun and a pot of gold that the leprechaun keeps hidden.

Americans often wear green on March 17 in honor of St. Patrick's Day, but have you ever wondered why? The St. Patrick's Day tradition started back in the 17th century when people would wear green ribbons and shamrocks on March 17 to honor Ireland's patron saint. The St. Patrick’s Day tradition was popularized by Irish immigrants in the United States, who believed that wearing green made them invisible to leprechauns, the classic fairy creatures who pinch anyone they could see. Pinching people who didn't wear green reminded them that leprechauns could sneak up on them at any time, which is how the wear green or be pinched tradition began.

Have you ever wondered what the traditional Irish dishes are? Well, traditional Irish dishes include (made with lamb, mutton, or beef), shepherd's , and cabbage (with potatoes), (potato ), (, bacon, and potato), (, kale or cabbage, New Alzheimer's Treatment on the Horizon

Scientists have discovered that a previously tested drug, “aducanumab”, that had thought to have been a failure is actually effective. The test group that failed was given too low a dosage. When they finished another trail with a much higher dosage, the affects were astonishing. The astonishing reversal on aducan umab, an antibody therapy that targets a protein called amyloid beta that builds up in the brain, comes after new data from the discontinued studies showed that at high doses the drug reduced cognitive decline in patients with early Alzheimer’s. The director of scientific engagement at the Alzheimer’s Association said it could be a game-changer for the field. It could be one of the first disease-modifying therapies approved for Alzheimer’s disease. An estimated 5.7 million Americans 65 and over have Alzheimer’s and they expect that number to mushroom to nearly 14 million by 2050 in the absence of new treatments. A handful of drugs approved by the FDA can alleviate some symptoms, but in the past 16 years no new drugs have approved. That may now change. The drug-maker Biogen, said that patients receiving aducanumab experienced “significant benefits on measures of cognition and function such as memory, orientation and language.” They also saw benefits in activities of daily living, including conducting personal finances, performing household chores and traveling independently outside the home. Biogen said it plans to pursue regulatory approval for aducanumab in the US and continue discussion on it with regulatory agencies internationally. The announcement sent the companies price soaring Tuesday morning. The company had stopped the trials in March after an independent monitoring board said the drug offered little hope of success, sending waves of disappointment through the scientific community after earlier trials had looked promising. The filed was really pinning it’s hopes that that the new drug would be positive, would show results said the Director of the Mayo Clinic’ Alzheimer’s Center. It did call to question whether attacking amyloid at all was a viable strategy. But analysis that included data gathered in the months after the monitoring board’s analysis appeared to show that one of the trials had in fact met it’s primary goal, though the other had not. The FDA said on Monday that Biogen could file for approval for the drug: the company expects to do so in early 2020. Biogen said it aims to offer it to patients who were previously enrolled in those studies. If approved, aducanumab would become the first therapy to reduce the clinical decline of Alzheimer’s disease. It would also bolster the theory that treatments that remove or reduce amyloid beta, which creates plaques associated with the disease, are an effective approach. Other therapies now in the clinical trial pipeline include those that address inflammation, the immune system, blood vessels and synaptic cell health. Experts say an effective treatment for the disease is likely to involve a combination of several therapies. We need to continue the different approaches because we think that a treatment is potentially going to be complex said the Director of the Alzheimer’s Assoc. While they called the news a bright light after so many failures in the field, they cautioned that it is not clear the FDA will approve the drug, particularly in light of the fact that one of the trials failed and traditionally two successful trials have been required for approval. In the failed trial, fewer people had received the high dose of the drug for a sufficient period of time, and people in a subset of that trial who had received higher doses had seen improvement. The challenge of course is to convince the FDA that therefore these are believable results. As the news boosted the stocks of Biogen and other companies with amyloid-targeting therapies, a Baird analyst warned in a note to clients that given the failure of such therapies in the past the company faces an uphill climb in making the case to regulators that the positive results were nothing more that random chance.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

Our March Birthdays Simon Esquenazi 15th Susan Greenblatt 31st

Happy Birthday Simon & Susan

ACTIVITIES & OUTINGS UPCOMING Chair Yoga - Daily at 10:00 am HOLIDAYS & Mind Games - Daily at 11:00 am EVENTS Sing A Long, Baking, Trivia, Word Please join us on March 17 at Games, Coloring, Entertainment, 2:45pm for our St. Patrick’s Day Bingo, You Be The Judge, Pet Therapy, party. Let’s celebrate great food, Beach Ball Toss, Spelling Bee, and live music with Ralph Rati, and more!! much more!

Outings We are also going to have a fun Irish theme dinner on March 17. Weekly Outings on the bus every Tuesday, and Friday