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Assisted living home provides an alliance of peers

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dean Chadwick and Dot Brannum were partners. Both women, residents at an assisted living home in Marietta, served in a novel program, as volunteer buddies matched up with fellow residents who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.

It was loving, gentle work — playing games, stringing necklaces and baking desserts — with those whose memories had been plundered by the cruelest of thieves.

Chadwick, once a hospital volunteer, was in her element. But she knew it wouldn’t last.

She had Alzheimer’s, too.

Although Chadwick was in the earliest stages of the disease, it was just a matter of time before she would be on the other side of the buddy program at Emeritus at Spring Mountain, an assisted living home in Marietta.

Only a month into the program, that thief turned on Chadwick: In April, she wandered away from the senior center.

Soon after, Chadwick, 82, joined other residents with more advanced stage Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in the center’s memory care unit — a secure, but also locked, wing of the facility.

The caregiver was suddenly the care receiver.

Chadwick, however, didn’t make this transition alone. She has Dot: Her former partner is still at her side. They play games. They make soup. They remain friends.

Brannum, you see, raised her hand to be Chadwick’s helper.

And each is richer for it.

“It’s a two way thing,” Brannum said. “I was very, very lonely when I moved here. I am not so lonely anymore.”

Lonely no more

On a recent afternoon, Chadwick and Brannum sit side by side, playing bingo, joking about their bad luck in the game.

Chadwick plays the game with ease, but she leans over after every game and asks Brannum if the red plastic windows used to cover the numbers stay down. In a soft and pleasant voice, Brannum answers the question. “No, you push them up, and we start over with just the numbers showing,” Brannum said.

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