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The number of memory care units in the US has grown 62% in the last decade. But Loomis Lakeside at Reeds Landing in Springfield, Massachusetts, ...
At 80 years old, Betty Kellenberger has become the oldest woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail, more than 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine. ...
When Jennifer Lai’s mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she scrambled to find a residential care facility where the Cantonese-speaking 88-year-old could live. Her mom had ...
Eighty years after a shared experience of war and freedom, history brings together two improbable friends. Andrew Roth, once a prisoner in the infamous Auschwitz ...
Memory Cafes are gatherings for people with cognitive impairment and their caregivers; they are becoming increasingly popular in the U.S. The gatherings are relatively cheap ...
While a Harvard geriatrics fellow, Thomas Perls was assigned a group of patients at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Jamaica Plain, including two people more than ...
There are nearly 900 freshwater ponds across Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and if you visit one on any given day, you may spot a crew of ...
A growing movement seeks to make communities more physically accessible for the more than 55 million people worldwide living with dementia. Now, cities like Singapore ...
Annette Roberge certainly felt like a celebrity as she crossed the stage to get her diploma at 90 years old. "I'm still on cloud nine," ...
The communist-era farmhouse at the Hungarian Open Air Museum is a time capsule of 1950s domesticity that offers elderly people living with dementia a return ...
This is the story of how Phil Daoust took up gymnastics after 61. "The older I get, the more I want to play rather than ...
Greetings cards from across Canada and as far away as Australia filled the mailbox of Donovan Nixon, 102, a decorated Second World War veteran who ...
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