This Startup Is Using Music To Help Alzheimer’s and Dementia Patients
Until this past March, Patti LaFleur had spent the past several years as a carepartner for her mother Linda LaTurner. LaTurner, LaFleur says, was “sunshine in human form” and a constant source of joy for her, even through the harder days of managing her dementia diagnosis. The self-described optimist documented the realities of her mother’s illness to nearly 140,000 people on TikTok, detailing the emotional toll the illness has on families. By the latter half of her illness, LaTurner didn’t recognize LaFleur as her daughter and couldn’t refer to her...