MARIA SHRIVER RECEIVES THE FIRST-EVER ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION'S WOMEN'S INITIATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD:

Maria Shriver received the first ever Alzheimer's Women's Initiative Leadership Award at the sold-out annual ‘Your Brain Matters' Luncheon in Santa Barbara, CA in November 2015. She spoke to the audience of 700 people about her mission to defeat Alzheimer's and her own experience with the disease.

'We are facing a national epidemic that has put women's brains at risk and I believe that it will be women's brains who will turn the tide,” she said. Read more from her speech here.