Black Angelenos Care for Alzheimer’s Patients — and Each Other (capitalandmain.com)
People Images/Getty Images To read more of George B. Sanchez-Tello's article, please click here. Peggy Melancon, known as Mother Peggy, got on the wrong bus in South L.A. She didn’t recognize her hairdresser. She kept losing her keys. These were the signs of her illness that daughters Jeanie Harris and Sharon Melancon recognized only after Mother Peggy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease. Mother Peggy would need someone with her all the time, and Harris, Melancon and...