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ylvia Perlman lived with her daughter Zina Kramer for the last six years of her life.
"My mother was a Holocaust survivor; said Kramer of Bloomfield Township. "She moved
in with us when she could no longer live by herself. At first, we went out for lunch, attended
events and visited family. I later enrolled her in the [Dorothy and Peter] Brown Adult Day Care
Program two mornings a week:'
Kramer hadn't realized she had been isolating her mother at home. At the Brown Center in West
Bloomfield, a Jewish Senior Life facility for adults with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders,
Perlman interacted with others and went to her first baseball game. During the next few years, she
was attending the Brown Center five days a week.
At first, I viewed her memory as if it was rational, and that
didn't make sense Kramer said. "I eventually learned to get
through an episode without making a judgment about her
memory. I also discovered I didn't have to do everything myself.
1942 - 2012
The Detroit Jewish community has many resources and is excep-
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tional for taking care of its own."
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