Today's Washinton Post describes just how far our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia has come in the last decade. In “Silver Bells: For 20 Alzheimer’s Patients, the Best Christmas Present Is Tied Up in the Past,” Post writer Tamara Jones tells of a senior facility in Washington D.C. and the wonderful holiday cheer a staff worker named Nadine Harris is providing for her residents.
Nadine Harris remembers something I, too, remember: a time when dementia patients were...
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