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A January 22, 2015 Sunrise Senior Living Blog post highlighted USAgainstAlzheimer's screening of the Glen Campbell documentary "I'll Be Me" at the Motion Picture Association of America. According to the post, "USAgainstAlzheimer’s, an organization dedicated to ending Alzheimer’s by 2020, benefited from Sunrise’s sponsorship support. Rita Altman, senior vice president of Memory Care & Program Services for Sunrise spoke in front of a packed theater before the movie started. “We are grateful to Glen Campbell and his family for their willingness to share their story with the world and provide a close look at the personal impacts of this disease, while at the same time, demonstrating there can still be joy, meaning and purpose in life following a diagnosis. That is something Sunrise is committed to bringing our residents every day at our communities,” she said."

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A January 22, 2015 Boston Globe article reported that Senator Elizabeth Warren will introduce a bill that would fund basic medical research by targeting pharmaceutical companies that enter into a settlement with the government over alleged wrongdoing. According to the article, "Warren said budget cuts to both agencies have choked off support for research that could lead to breakthrough treatments against cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Ebola, autism and other conditions that effect millions in the United States and around the globe…Warren said if the policy had been in effect during the past five years, NIH would have had about $6 billion more annually to fund thousands of new grants to scientists and universities and research centers. She said that would have been the equivalent of nearly a 20 percent increase in NIH funding. Warren acknowledges her proposal faces a tough slog in a deeply divided Congress, where she is in the minority party." Also reported on by The Wall Street Journal. 

A January 19, 2015 New York Times article reported that millennials will outnumber baby boomers this year. According to the article, "75 is the approximate number, in millions, of millennials that the United States will have this year. The total of millennials — those born from 1981 to 1997 — will reach 75.3 million, overtaking baby boomers (1946 to 1964) as the United States’ largest living generation."