D. Liebhart Explores Impossible Promises in Dementia Novel
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 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 Lori Aden and Sheila Parsley, Texas, USA Our mother got lost driving home from the nail salon back in 2014. At the time, she lived in California, and we lived in
By Jennifer Randazzo, Pennsylvania, USA When my dad was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia 18 years ago, we were initially told that he had two terrible diseases — Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. He
By Kacy Chambers, Tennessee, USA When I was a child my paternal grandmother, Godmother, and great aunt had dementia/Alzheimer’s. The adults never had a conversation with us (the children in the family)
By Marianne Sciucco, New York Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN is the author of Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring, poems written when she became a nurse poet in the 1990’s.
By Julissa Cruz Two years ago (on one of my family vacations) I realized that my 10-year-old niece suffered a lot from her grandmother’s cognitive disorders. Especially her short-term memory. In my
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 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.
By Christiana Egi, Toronto, Canada I am a Registered Nurse, and the motivation to write this story began in my first year as a student nurse. Our first mental health rotation was
