A Home Away From Home For People With Dementia, Alzheimer’s

PULLMAN — As her disease worsened, Kristin Prieur’s mother, who suffers from dementia, spent her days socializing at Circles of Caring, an adult day health program in Pullman. “She’d come home and get off the bus, and I would always ask her how her day was,” Prieur said. “Finally, one day she looked at me and she said, ‘Oh, I can’t remember.

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