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Ambassadors share hope for Alzheimer’s

Corinne Lines and Shannon Athen, representatives of Ambassadors of Alzheimer’s Awareness, visited Great Bend and Ellinwood nursing homes last weekend to spread the word about how medication and ballroom dancing can help manage the debilitating disease that robs people of their memories over time....

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For most of the past century, Alzheimer’s patients and their families were advised the disease was something to be managed, not cured.  Without medication and cognitive therapy, the debilitating loss of memory eventually progresses until the body forgets to do automatic functions like swallowing, and those effected usually die of secondary diseases caused by a decrease in health.   But thanks to people like Hazel Mannik, new options and a new outlook is beginning to come ...

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