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Adapting to a loved one's new reality of living with dementia is a challenge many caregivers initially face when told of the condition.
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Mohana Ravindranath
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NEW YORK – About four years ago, Ms Madhavi Phadke, a philanthropy director in Westford, Massachusetts, noticed her mother, Ms Chanda Bhawalkar, was withdrawing.
Ms Bhawalkar had been an avid reader and a talented cook, who walked daily and texted regularly with her friends back home in Maharashtra, India.
