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‘Your people are suffering’: Families ask lawmakers for help caring for West Virginians with dementia

When Debbie Elkins’ husband Chuck began to show symptoms of impairment, even as a nurse, she couldn’t find words to describe the changes — let alone “dementia” or “neurodegenerative disorder.” It took more than five years and multiple visits to medical specialists to get an accurate diagnosis: frontotemporal degeneration dementia. To care for him, Elkins, […]

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