"After being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2007, Terry Pratchett made considerable donations to Alzheimer research funding, lobbied the British government for increased dementia research, and participated in a documentary on the condition (Living With Alzheimer’s), before passing away earlier this month at 66. Since then, Pratchett’s friends and family have encouraged well-wishers to support dementia research in his honor to incredible results, with BBC News reporting that the Research Institute For the Care of Older People (RICE) has received a “huge pledge” of donations since the author’s death (£50,515 and counting)." - Jessie