Because my parents or other direct family members hadn't been affected by Alzheimers, I have to admit that I knew very little about the disease. I always thought of Alzheimers simply as the progressive memory loss that some elderly people suffer from. I also had absolutey no notion of the real challenges that people who care for people with Alzheimers face. That is until very recently when my mother began playing a more active role as a caregiver for her elderly Aunt and I met Chris Wynn, the director of Forgetful not Forgotten, the film.

I first met Chris in my capacity as producer for Pure Cobalt, a web agency based in Montreal. Chris met us to discuss bulding a web site to support the release of his documentary. Through Chris I began to learn more about the disease and about his story. It quickly became clear that a Forgetful not Forgotten web site had the potential to be so much more than a promotion for his film. As Chris discovered and documented in his documentary, being a caregiver is a demanding, sometimes lonely, often frustrating task. Through the film we also see how important dialogue, exchange, openness, sharing and community are to making caregivers more effective, happier and healthier. It is in this spirit that we worked with Chris and his production partner Mitch Azaria to develop a vision for this site. And thanks to the generous support of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, we have been able to bring this vision to life.

Thank you for visiting forgetfulnotforgotten.com and participating in the development of this important online community. Over the next weeks and months, we will continue to add content and features to the site - so please let us know if there are other issues, topics, functionality that you think will improve the site and its value for caregivers.