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By Improper Staff Aug. 5, 2016
Max Wallack
Sure, Max Wallack has all the credentials of a whiz kid. He graduated summa cum laude from Boston University at 18, and the 20-year-old will begin his second year at Harvard Medical School this fall. But his efforts outside the classroom are even more impressive. While helping to care for his great-grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, the Natick native saw how using puzzles could calm dementia patients and provide other mental benefits. So he founded PuzzlesToRemember, which has supplied more than 63,000 puzzles to more than 3,800 nursing facilities around the world. “I found that most available puzzles had too many small pieces to be beneficial,” he says. “That is why I contacted Springbok to produce puzzles with 36 very large-sized, colorful pieces, with memory-provoking themes.” Wallack has also co-authored a book explaining Alzheimer’s disease to children, and he’s volunteered thousands of hours in research in the field. “I learned very early on how devastating this disease is to both patients and their families.” Now, he’s making it his life’s work to eliminate as much of that devastation as possible.
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