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For People With Dementia, Fostering Intimacy Can Be Good Medicine

Dementia patients may lose many of their cognitive abilities, but they don’t lose the fundamental human desire for physical intimacy.

And as Kathy Ritchie (@kathymritchie) from Here & Now contributor KJZZ in Phoenix discovered, fostering intimacy can be good medicine.

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