Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
The room, decorated with an under-the-sea theme, had a balloon arch decked out with streamers meant to look like jellyfish and a cloud of clear balloons mimicking ocean bubbles.
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Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease in his late 50s.
Everyone here has a degree of memory loss or is a caregiver for someone with memory loss.
Attendees colored on worksheets with an underwater theme. They drank coffee and returned to the breakfast bar for seconds on pastries
A quick round of trivia gets everyone's minds working.
"We start out with just little trivia,