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Alzheimer’s Poetry Project

workshop participants of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project

Fact checked by Derick Wilder   Chicago poet Gary Glazner founded the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project in 2003 to give people with dementia a way to express themselves. Since then, the organization has worked with more than 62,500 participants. “The workshops won’t change the progression of the disease, but they give participants moments of joy and happiness […]