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Dementia support group gets a gift
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Purple House Gallery owner Malia Bolt stands with her award after winning the Larson-Juhl Design Star Competition in 2017. After winning the award, Bolt donated a portion of the profits from sales of a line of mouldings she helped design to the Northeast Georgia Physicians Group for their Dementia Support Group. (Photo courtesy Malia Bolt)
A mirror reflects what’s in front of it, but never shows what’s inside. A caregiver for the family of someone who has dementia often struggles with the diagnosis and the disease, too. While they aren’t plagued with the side effects — visible to those they interact with — themselves, they deal with them in different ways.