Milan is joining other Washtenaw County communities in an effort to change the way people experience dementia.
Milan’s efforts kicked off with an action committee meeting Sept. 17 and continued Sept. 29 with Milan’s first community workshop on dementia.
“The best way to envision it is a place where people walk toward someone with dementia instead of away from them,” said Jim Mangi, a Saline resident who founded the nonprofit Dementia Friendly Services after spending 17 years helping his wife, Kathleen, navigate Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia…