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For Alzheimer’s and dementia patients, pingpong is a game — and therapy

At the Arthur Gilbert Table Tennis Center in L.A., founder Mikhail Zaretsky offers a program that, he says, leads to big changes in the alertness, balance and coordination of patients. When they play, ‘they have to be there!’ he says. On TV screens around the room, Chinese table tennis players are whirling and vaulting, but Betty Stein isn’t watching them.

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