Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

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Communities becoming ‘dementia friendly’

Shirley Strysick sometimes forgets she's met someone two hours prior or that she's no longer a nurse.

So the 90-year-old is living in a nursing home in Watertown, about 50 miles west of Milwaukee. And lucky for her it's in a city trying to make life easier for those with dementia.

Watertown and the state of Minnesota are helping lead the push nationally for communities to become "dementia friendly." The Watertown effort includes a "Memory Cafe," a monthly . . .

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