Frustrated by lack of dementia care options, Twin Cities family decides to build their own | Star Tribune

“Almost from the moment Jerry Parks was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he began changing the status quo. He was 56 at the time, and about a decade younger than all but 5 percent of those with dementia. At the adult day center he attended, Parks insisted the staff stop reading the newspaper out loud to him and others when they were perfectly capable of reading it themselves. Parks became an activist. He met with lawmakers, spoke at national gatherings of the Alzheimer’s Association and pushed for better Social Security disability benefits for people with various forms of dementia.”
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