‘Memory Cafe’ creates community for people with dementia

WALTHAM – The sunlit room buzzed with excitement when Gary Glazner and John McFadden, strumming a ukulele, bounced on stage in song. Participants applauded and sang in unison as each person in the room was introduced. "That was a marathon" by the time it ended, said Glazner, the founding director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project in New York City's Brooklyn borough.

WALTHAM – The sunlit room buzzed with excitement when Gary Glazner and John McFadden, strumming a ukulele, bounced on stage in song. Participants applauded and sang in unison as each person in the room was introduced. "That was a marathon" by the time it ended, said Glazner, the founding director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project in New York City's Brooklyn borough.…