Although saddening and difficult for friends and loved ones, Razorback legend Frank Broyles said caretakers of dementia patients should try to make treatment “the best of times.”

During an open house at The Caring Place of Hot Springs, 101 Quapaw Ave., a daycare and respite facility for people who have Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, Broyles shared his family’s battle with the disease.

In 2004, his wife, Barbara Broyles, died at the age of 79 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1999. Broyles, 84, the former University of Arkansas at Fayetteville a...

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