Individuals who suffer with some form of dementia typically lose the ability to communicate as they once did. If you could no longer use words as a means of reaching out to others, what other means would you use?

For some art is the only way that they can express themselves.

-LaVar Steel

After more than 40 years as an art professor and prolific artist, LaVar Steel created his final masterpiece. Using his second language of art, LaVar created a beautiful first-hand account of his experiences with Alzheimer’s disease.