Alzheimer\u2019s and other types of dementia are taking a growing toll on San Diego. More than 62,000 residents have the deadly disease.<\/span><\/p>\n Under the umbrella of the county-led Alzheimer\u2019s Project, I continue to work closely with top researchers, local public universities, Alzheimer\u2019s San Diego and others to address the impact of Alzheimer\u2019s and to accelerate the search for a cure.<\/span><\/p>\n Ready for battle<\/span><\/b>: Our region recently marked the 10th<\/span> anniversary of the devastating 2007 firestorms. Those of us who lived through the disaster will never forget the loss of life and property.<\/span><\/p>\n We\u2019ve come a long way since then in improving wildfire protection in our most fire-prone areas. The county has substantially beefed up air and ground firefighting resources, and it established the County Fire Authority to coordinate wildfire protection across 1.5 million rural acres.<\/span><\/p>\n But a recent county survey found a drop-off in the number of residents who say they are adequately prepared for a disaster. If you haven\u2019t already, I urge you to go to readysandiego.org.<\/span><\/p>\n Fighting fakes and frauds: <\/span><\/b>The turnout was great at my recent Don\u2019t Get Hooked forum in La Mesa.<\/span><\/p>\n The region\u2019s top experts in financial fraud against seniors joined me in educating folks about what they can do to fight off scammers, who will use any ruse possible to rip off older residents.<\/span><\/p>\n A big thank you to Skyline Church for providing the venue. Details on how to fend off crooks that target seniors can be found on the San Diego County District Attorney website.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 Dianne Jacob is San Diego County Supervisor for District 2. For more District 2 news, go to diannejacob.com<\/a> or follow her on Facebook and Twitter. For assistance with a county issue, call her office at 619-531-5522 or email dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By\u00a0Dianne\u00a0Jacob Helping families: It was great to take part in the recent Walk4ALZ fundraiser at Balboa Park. It was inspiring to see so many people come together to help families dealing with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":221873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"News from your County Supervisor \u2013 Nov. 24, 2017","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"News](\"https:\/\/lamesacourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dianne_Jacob_Photo.jpg\")
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