A Former Journalist Tells The Stories Of Those With Dementia Who Can’t

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Jay Newton-Small Stories of People with Alzheimers Dementia
Jay Newton-Small with her father, Graham (Gray) Newton-Small after he was diagnosed with dementia.

Former Time Magazine correspondent Jay Newton-Small used to cover politics and foreign policy. Now, she writes the life stories of people with dementia. Newton-Small tells Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner that her company, MemoryWell, grew out of her experience caring for her father. Her work recently took her to a senior home in Fort Collins where she lived for several days and wrote about some of the residents. You can read the biography here that Newton-Small wrote about her own father.