Every Walk to End Alzheimer’s organized by the Alzheimer’s Association begins in a cheerful garden filled with flowers of many colors representing participants’ connection to the disease.
In the Promise Garden Ceremony that kicks off the walk, participants are asked to hold their flowers high — orange flowers represent people who support the cause of a world without Alzheimer’s, blue flowers are for people who are living with a diagnosis of the disease, yellow flowers are for families and caregivers and purple flowers are for people who have lost loved ones.