Jim Halstrom News Today

Ann Halstrom, director of Providence St. Mary Home Health, was already concerned for her brother-in-law, Jim Halstrom. He had been a lobbyist for Washington’s state government his entire career. And although he was 78, he had worked up until nine months earlier, when rapid-onset dementia began robbing him of the ability to do so. Ann Halstrom, a longtime nurse who now works to help elderly and people with disabilities stay in their own homes in the Walla Walla area, knew what such a diagno...