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This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Image courtesy of Brian Van Buren. Image:…
In the 1980s, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student of English, developing her expertise in language and literature, her father Jerry, now deceased,…
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