Joan Baker wanted to be a humanitarian, but one thing always got in the way. She didn’t know where to direct her altruism, which of the countless causes out there she was meant to embrace and support. Then her father, James P. Baker, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
“When he passed away, I knew I wanted to do something,” said the Brooklyn resident of her father, who died from complications of the disease in 2003 at the age of 80. “I was bound and determined.”
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