Standing inside Charlie's Place feels familiar — the same comfortable calm that might fill the living room or parlor of a grandparent, fit with trappings straight out of Baby Boomers' heyday.

Plaid-upholstered armchairs in muted greens and red line the walls. A small fountain trickles in a rock-lined garden out the window. Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis sheet music sits open on an old player-piano.

Charlie's Place is one of the most successful programs at Alzheimer's Services of the Capital Area, with its main location on North Boulevard in Baton Rouge. It provides a space for those suffering from dementia to socialize away from their family for six hours a day, a few days each week.

Looking closer at the space, you might notice a few eccentricities: the realistic-looking cat sitting on the

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