Author Dave Iverson cares for his mother with Alzheimer’s in Winter Stars
By Dave Iverson, California & Maine, USA In the fall of 2007, when I was about to turn age 59, I did something I’d never imagined. I moved in with my 95-year-old
By Dave Iverson, California & Maine, USA In the fall of 2007, when I was about to turn age 59, I did something I’d never imagined. I moved in with my 95-year-old
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 Sandy Stark-McGinnis In April 2020 my sophomore middle-grade novel The Space Between Lost and Found was published. It was the beginning of the
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
My mom moved out of the house when I was seven. That was a big deal in 1980—unheard of, actually. My dad raised my two brothers and me with little to no
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
By Steph Jagger, Washington, USA I don’t like to be consumed by things. I think that’s the reason why I wrote Everything Left to Remember— why I chose to document, not only
By Y. Y. Chan, Hong Kong Grandma, It’s Me! is a fictional children’s book about dementia. The story is based on my experience with the closest grandmother I had ever had –
Up in the Sky So Blue By Lisa Graff When I was a young girl, sitting on a swing, I imagined I could vanish into another world if I swung high enough.
How did 7 years sneak up on us? This little project was meant to last 30 days and here we are, counting 7 years of sharing dementia stories from personal experience to