{"id":223456,"date":"2026-06-19T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223456\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:47:10","slug":"northampton-county-seniors-raise-awareness-for-alzheimers-disease-with-family-walk-event-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223456\/","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County seniors raise awareness for Alzheimer&#8217;s disease with family walk event | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Northampton County seniors are raising awareness of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Birches of Lehigh Valley in Bethlehem Township took a walk around the grounds on Friday with their families and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>A presentation on Alzheimer&#8217;s and dementia was also given.<\/p>\n<p>The event honored the strength of those living with Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>One woman says she&#8217;s lost relatives to the disease, but remains hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very close to my heart. I want to see an end to this, a cure. There is no cure right now, but they&#8217;ve been making great strides,&#8221; said Pam Haas, a volunteer for the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s walk was a mini-version of a bigger walk planned for September.<\/p>\n<p>That one will be a fundraiser at the SteelStacks in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Northampton County seniors are raising awareness of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. Residents of the Birches of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-223456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}