Why MemCo exists
This began with three generations of loss.
Growing up in Korea, both my grandmothers disappeared into Alzheimer's. One escaped into a night market in the middle of the night. The other stopped recognizing her own daughter. Their stories died with them.
Years later, I discovered my grandmother had helped families escape North Korea during the war — arrested by the communist regime, she fled south with five children and built a business from nothing. My other grandmother was the first woman to own a printing shop in Seoul in the 1960s. I never knew any of this. My parents were exhausted caretakers. The stories never reached us.
My father has Alzheimer's — likely hereditary, as both his mother and my mother's mother had it before him. My mother and I are his caretakers. He's lonely. He just wants someone to talk to.
Both my grandmothers had it. Now my father. This disease runs in families — and as I care for him, I know I may be watching my own future unfold. That fear is something millions of caretakers carry quietly, and rarely say out loud. It's why MemCo is personal.
— The MemCo founder