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“So much of it is the story and the symptoms being displayed, and the family members are the ones who can complete that story for the health-care provider,” says Dr. He and his siblings first suspected something was wrong when his own mother stopped watching the news and doing crosswords.Īlzheimer’s disease is hard to diagnose – it’s not a simple blood test. The family relocated often - she first became interested in the theatre when the family was.
Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military.
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