Zak Williams is helping launch a new mental health program, Inseparable, in response to COVID-19
, a type of brain disease that affected his thinking, memory and movement control. It’s the second-most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.
In his own way, Zak has already found a way to reflect on his father's life and legacy by becoming an advocate for mental health after the star's death in August 2014. Inseparable, for which Zak is on the Advisory Board, "is an organization supporting policy" for mental health programs, he says. "The coronavirus pandemic has brought light to a parallel pandemic that's happening," says Zak. "We are experiencing from it as a direct result of the pandemic... a shared trauma that's becoming quite acute as a result of everything that people have been through both in terms of the devastating economic effects, the isolation and a lot of circumstances from communities.
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