By Susan Elkin, South London, UK So, the person you love most in the world – and with whom you’ve lived for nearly half a century – is diagnosed with a hideous,
By Julie Annette Bennett The Phoenix Man gives a complete picture from start to finish of a caregiver-in-training as my husband Scott lives through three debilitating diseases; a dying heart and eventual
And I’ll Never Love Him Less by Candy Abbott I already knew there would be a book two as soon as I’ve Never Loved Him More came out. The minute readers finished
By Susan Wilson Krechel, M.D. When my own health failed and I was forced to send my dear husband into the dementia care system, I was lost. Suddenly, days filled with the
By Cynthia Fantasia In The Lingering Light: Courage & Hope for the Alzheimer’s Caregiver 2014 held such promise. I was retiring from my very exciting career as Pastor of Women at a
By Fran Tilton Shelton The 13th century poet, Rumi, acknowledged in a poem about love “though the pen wanted badly to write when it came to Love, its nib split apart…In the
By JoAnn Wingfield Alzheimer’s disease! To most people, the diagnosis is a death sentence, the worst kind, because it proclaims a long, slow, and agonizing death. Facing the challenges ahead, a well
Living with Alzheimer’s: A love story by Robin Thomson When my wife, Shoko, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease, in January 2012, we had no clue what lay ahead. As the disease began
By Helene Berger I write this article during the growing, devastating, worldwide tsunami of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is difficult to speak of Joy and Hope when our lives are so radically
By Susan G. Miller Being a writer was not something I had ever planned on and took me quite by surprise. My husband was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of
