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Category: Alzheimer’s

Courage… Finding the Way with Alzheimer’s

November 14, 2013

Bailey Wacholz was 14 when her dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Even though she and her mom Pam noticed changes, the diagnosis was not immediate. As the family wrestled with the new challenges in their world they reached out to the Alzheimer’s Association. Like others who contact the Association, Pam and Bailey felt they found…
Alzheimer’s

September 13, 2013

On a cloudless August day, Richard W., 65, navigates his pontoon on the waters of Jennings Bay, Lake Minnetonka. Pulling a laminated map from beneath the pilot’s chair, he points out Dutch Lake, where he, and wife Carol, raised their two girls. Dick was definitively diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2009, but the couple, and…