In the summer of 2019, Dr. Charlie Farrell braved the cold waters of the San Francisco Bay, swimming from Alcatraz with his life partner Luise Easton in his capacity as a Dementia advocate.
"Dementia can really turn into a prison in a person’s own life," Dr. Charlie told us back in 2019.
But, life with dementia doesn't have to be a prison. Since his wife Carolyn's passing in 2015, Farrell has dedicated his life to a foundation in her honor: Making sure families touched by memory loss get the hope and help they need, for free.
"When they first get this diagnosis, unfortunately they tend to panic, and they start to accept the concept that once you develop dementia, this is the end of your life. There's no place to go," he said of families dealing with dementia.
At the Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation, those families will always have somewhere to go. Now, after years of trying to understand dementia, the disease inhabits Charlie's own body.
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