What my mother’s Alzheimer’s taught me about laughter | Dani Klein Modisett | TEDxCapeMay

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Despite working as a comic for over twenty years and teaching stand-up at UCLA for ten, when my mother became depressed, facing an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, I could not make her laugh. Desperate to recapture this light in her eyes, I had an idea that would not only change her end-of-life experience but