Article: New program to help those with memory loss

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 ...

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