As her mother, Anne, endured Alzheimer's disease, Massachusetts mom and small business owner Julie Centrella commissioned a series of portraits of her mom in an effort to capture her spirit; photographer Joe Wallace took these photos as part of a series he's been doing on Alzheimer's patients to help de-stigmatize the disease.
The disease progresses at different rates for each person."My mom’s speech began to be affected, her sentences were jumbled, and it was getting really hard to even carry on a conversation," said Centrella.
Wallace has enormous sensitivity for those struggling with dementia. Through his moving portrait series,"The Day After Yesterday: Portraits of Dementia," and his website Portraitsofdementia.com, he aims to destigmatize the condition and present the multiple facets of a person who is journeying through it.
Wallace’s passion for the subject comes from experience: His own grandfather had Alzheimer’s and his grandmother had vascular dementia. Julie Centrella, second from right, with her husband, Pat, and their three children. Centrella named her business Aine's Boutique after her mother's original Irish name .
Centrella shared the pain of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis for patients' loved ones."My father passed away from cancer and as bad as that was, the Alzheimer’s is worse," she said. Centrella said dementia is"a lot of small losses along the way … In the end," she added,"there’s still the person in there somewhere, and you do get fleeting moments of that, and sometimes you’ll get a smile or a little glimmer of recognition."
"I named the business after my mom, who while growing up in Ireland went by the name Aine," she said."She changed it to Anne when she moved to America." "The [portraits] convey her love for us, even though she couldn’t really speak anymore when they were taken. It’s been a treasure to have them."
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