Podcast: Tom and Karen Brenner Untangle Reaching the Unreachable
By Marianne Sciucco Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode we meet Tom and Karen Brenner, a couple with a passion to help those with dementia and their families connect on
By Marianne Sciucco Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode we meet Tom and Karen Brenner, a couple with a passion to help those with dementia and their families connect on
By Marianne Sciucco Welcome back to the podcast! This episode is a duet with two of our authors who happen to be years long friends brought together by their work in dementia
By Carolyn Birrell “In 2012, I flew down to Georgia to kidnap my mother.” That’s how my book begins. Impactful, solid hook. I’m told it’s a powerful read, full of relatable stories
By Eilon Caspi, Ph.D. I started working in the aging field in 1994 as a nurse aide in a nursing home where my grandfather lived. I then worked as a social worker
By Marianne Sciucco AlzAuthors has partnered with Larry Smith and his Six-Word Memoir project to share our stories and raise awareness of Alzheimer’s and dementia. The idea is to tell your caregiver
AlzAuthors offers many stories from caregivers who have each lived a unique journey. For some, caregiving came easy, a duty lovingly fulfilled. For others, it involved a complicated choice to reconnect with
By Nicole Bell, North Carolina, USA I’ve always enjoyed writing. Even as a little girl, I overanalyzed the world around me. Conversations and events lingered and looped in my brain as if
By Laura Davis, California, USA My 2021 memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars, tells the story of my embattled relationship with my mother, our determination to love one another, and the dramatic and
By Marianne Sciucco, New York, USA September is World Alzheimer’s Month. One hard fact we have learned through working with authors from across the globe is that dementia care varies from country
By Linda Austin Konnichi wa, obaasan, o-genki desu ka? My Japanese mother suffered from Alzheimer’s. She spent her last three years in a care home and I went there nearly every day
