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Article: New program to help those with memory loss
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- December 15, 2008
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More encouraging news for this community has come from Barbara
Fister, director of My Friend's Place, an adult day center in
Bangor.
Fister reports My Friend's Place has been selected as one of 14
organizations throughout the country "to establish an innovative
Early Memory Loss Program."
The grant for the program came from the Brookdale Foundation
Group of New York City and will receive additional support from
First United Methodist Church along with "other public, private and
voluntary agencies in Bangor," Fister wrote.
The program "joins a network of programs in more than 200
communities in 34 states" that began with the Brookdale Foundation
grants.
This new local program will provide "an ...