By Marianne Sciucco, New York, US Christy Byrne Yates moderates an Aging & Amazing book club discussion with co-host Marianne Sciucco on the value of fiction in dementia caregiving. Marianne, a founder
By Christy Byrne Yates, MS, LEP, California, US For our March installment of Books & Chit Chat, our monthly Book Club collaboration with Aging & Amazing, we talk with Ruth Stevens, a
By Christina Consolino, Ohio, US Summer 2015 began with a bout of shingles for my dad, who then fell multiple times. A short stint in rehab followed by PT and OT at
By D. Liebhart, United States House on Fire is a novel about an ICU nurse whose mother asks her to euthanize her father who is living with dementia. My father had vascular
By Ruth Stevens My mother, Muriel Port Stevens, suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last five years of her life. During that time, I often found myself trading war stories and sharing sympathetic
By Susan Cushman My latest novel John and Mary Margaret—released in June 2021—is actually my third book that deals with Alzheimer’s disease. My memoir, Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face
By Eleanor Lerman In Watkins Glen, Susan and Mark, a long-estranged sister and brother, are brought back together when Mark, who is in his seventies, develops Alzheimer’s and Susan, who is in
MY DAD MY DOG By Rebecca Warner When she moves her Alzheimer’s-afflicted dad into the home she shares with her husband and elderly dog, Rachel Morgan expects some complications, but she never
by Naomi Wark Though a work of fiction, Wildflowers in Winter was inspired by my husband’s grandmother. Edna Pearson represents any of the nearly six million people in America who are living
By Layne Deemer When my father was alive and caring for my mother, he used to say, “You don’t know what it’s like in this house.” I hated when he said that,
