Donations have memory-care patients singing, dancing, telling stories
(WorldNews Health)

Earlier this year, Joe Ryan heard his sister sing karaoke for the first time. His sister is in the early stages of dementia and lives in a seniors community near Lake Minnetonka. `She was as happy as she´s been in a few years,` Ryan said. When Ryan´s mother was struggling with dementia a few decades ago, she didn´t have the daily access to stimulating events that his sister has. And Ryan felt like there were no solutions back then. `We wanted the best-of-class for mom in terms of a community that she could be a part of ... but we had a difficult time finding that level of care,` Ryan said. `I felt like I wasn´t able to help.` It´s too late for Ryan to help his mother, who died several years...