Services provided by the University of Georgia’s Cognitive Aging Research and Education Center (CARE) and the Athens Community Council on Aging (ACCA) are preparing to expand, seeking to address the
By NATALIA RODRÍGUEZ MEDINA/DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
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Karol Suárez, 41, knows how hard it can be for some people to get the mental-health care they need. Sometimes it even requires family members to lie to their loved ones.
In 2019, Suárez was at a mental health conference to talk about her work as a community health worker or health promoter for the Chicago-based Latino Alzheimer s and Memory Disorders Alliance (LAMDA), which supports Latinos with cognitive diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.
She was washing her hands in the bathroom when a woman approached her and said this was the only place they could talk freely.