Southington's Bill Lynch and his wife Patricia have always loved bowling.

"She was better than me," Bill said. "The focus was so great, she could stand there, look at those pins and the ball would go straight down the middle."

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Patricia can't bowl much anymore. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's six years ago.

"Her memory is basically gone," Bill said. "Ask her for a fork and she might give you a spoon."

As Patricia's care partner and husband of nearly 56 years, Bill takes things one moment at a time, but it's difficult to see his wife struggle.

"Noticing slipping of the person that I married," Lynch said. "You to start to feel that, that you're losing that person, but you deal with it. You try to do the best you

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