MOUNT PLEASANT — Robin Latimer, 70, leaned over to line up her putt, then fired off a joke at those standing behind the hole.

“They’re all very brave back there,” she said, cracking up the crowd around her. Nonetheless, she sank it and set off a round of applause and a high-five from a man nearby.

The portable putting green on the floor of Alice’s Clubhouse was actually a kind of therapy, part of the way the memory care day facility stimulates and enervates those like Latimer who are battling dementia by reclaiming their health and their lives.

Some of it, for Latimer, is just being around others.

“I need fellowship,” she said. “I’m a social person.”

A landmark study recently showed that exercise and mental stimulation actually improved cognition in those age 65 and older who were at

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