After being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2007, Terry Pratchett made considerable donations to Alzheimer research funding, lobbied the British government for increased dementia research, and participated in a documentary on the condition (Living With Alzheimer’s), before passing away earlier this month at 66.
Since then, Pratchett’s friends and family have encouraged well-wishers to support dementia research in his honor to incredible results, with BBC News reporting that the Research Institute For the Care of Older People (RICE) has received a “huge pledge” of donations since the author’s death (ÂŁ50,515 and counting).
Pratchett’s relationship with the Institute started in 2008, when he was treated by its director, Professor Roy Jones. Jones described his patient as a “unique character,” saying
[Pratchett’s] courage in doing this (speaking out about his illness and raising awareness) has been an enormous help to everyone affected as well as to researchers trying to find a more effective treatment.
Donations to RICE in honor of Sir Terry can be made here.
(via Blastr)
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