Caring for Mother: Alzheimer’s Disease

By Paula Sarver Mom has Alzheimer’s. It’s one thing to say it, but another to live it and

By Eleanor Cooney In the third grade, I was kicked out of show-and-tell for three weeks. I told

By Barbara Smith I am an occupational therapist, specializing in developmental disabilities. I had never planned to work

By Susan Cushman “The upside of Alzheimer’s; new mother.” (Smith’s Six-Word Memoirs) My mother, Effie Johnson, was second

by Vanessa Williams-Harvey It took years of silence for me to come to terms and let it all

by Jessica Bryan I am a writer. That’s difficult to say when I’m so busy being a caregiver for

By Susan Soesbe How do you write an honest story about a real-life tragedy without being so tedious

By Lisa Hirsch My mom has had Alzheimer’s disease for 14 long years. Out of her suffering from

By Vicki Kaufmann, MA, MPSt “Cobwebs in my mind!” was how my mother depicted the disease that ravaged

By Linda Jenkins After five years in the making, writing this memoir has been one of the most

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