New Program Gives Hope To Victims And Families Battling Dementia

CBS San Francisco

August 12, 2022

There is a measure of new hope for victims and families battling the devastating effects Alzheimer's and related dementias.

New research and programs are helping to slow the advancing symptoms and may possibly push off any early on-set. One such new program is at the San Francisco YMCA.

"I met her at United Airlines, I was working as a ticket agent and this is while we were going to school," remembers 86-year-old Richard Nicewonger. "And she came up with a ticket to go to Hawaii. She was an employee also at United. And later we started meeting on the Greyhound bus going to work. That was good days, good days like today."

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