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Paul Pepper: Lois Long, Persons with Dementia Advocate/Volunteer, "Patience"

Everyone's experience with persons with dementia is different, but the best thing you can do - no matter the situation - is be patient, that's according to advocate/volunteer LOIS LONG. She says because it's usually short-term memory that's affected, to listen to the person "even though you've heard the story a hundred times." Lois reads another of her original poems at [6:40]. September 9, 2021

Travis McMillen is the senior media producer at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. For KBIA, Travis oversees production of "The Daily Blend w/ AC."
Paul Pepper was a fixture on the mid-Missouri airwaves from 1969 until his retirement in 2023. He started hosting Radio Friends with Paul Pepper for KBIA-FM in 2009 after a remarkable 40-year on-air career at KOMU-TV.
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