On Thursday, October 30, 2014, the Alzheimer’s Association – North Central Texas Chapter will partner with the West Texas Rehabilitation Center to present a screening of the independent feature film Angel’s Perch. The program is scheduled from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Board Room at WTRC in Abilene.
Angel’s Perch examines the delicate relationship between past and present, memory and loss, as depicted by a family struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. It is the story of Jack, a successful young architect living in Pittsburgh, who must make the trip to his tiny hometown of Cass, West Virginia, to move his grandmother into an assisted-care facility after she is found wandering outside her home. But what was intended to be a two day, under-the-radar trip becomes more complicated when Jack is unable to move her into an assisted living facility nearby. Torn between the career opportunity of a lifetime, caring for his last living relative and running from his own painful memories, Jack is forced to choose between standing still or facing the pain of his past, so that he can finally move forward in his life.
The screening of Angel’s Perch will be followed by a discussion moderated by Howard Gruetzner, M.Ed, LPC. Mr. Gruetzner is Family Care and Education Specialist for the Waco Regional Office of the Alzheimer’s Association and author of the widely-read Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s Guide and Sourcebook.
For more information or to register, please contact Mindy Bannister at the Abilene Regional Office at 325-672-2907 or 800-272-3900.