Dementia

By Irene Frances Olson My name is Irene Frances Olson and I survived being an Alzheimer’s family caregiver

By Don Wendorf I wrote CAREGIVER CAROLS: A Musical, Emotional Memoir to cope with my own emotional struggles

Listening to the needs of caregivers as a facilitator of Alzheimer’s support groups for many years, I became

Ann, tears in my eyes reading this…what a lovely time we had…

By Lynda Everman “To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do

Expressing the Inexpressible through Poetry By Ann Campanella When I was in my early thirties, my mother began

By Peter Maeck The experience of writing a poem, play, or story, or creating a photograph, is like

Silent Storm: What We Remember, What We Forget, What We Discover A Novelist Meditates on Writing about Alzheimer’s

By Philip D. Sloane, MD I was six years into my medical training – a second year resident

By Niki Kapsambelis On a drizzly April day in 2009, I walked into a hotel suite in downtown

By Candy Abbott I’ve Never Loved Him More A Husband’s Alzheimer’s, A Wife’s Devotion “Mom,” my daughter Kim

By Christina Britton Conroy When I was twenty-seven, my sixty-year-old mother died of cancer. I was left to

A Gift in a Strange Package By Lori La Bey, founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks I have to admit

The Last Christmas Present By Margo Rose The first client with advanced Alzheimer’s who I worked with as

By H.A. Robinson When I sat down to write The Pebble Jar around this time last year, I