By JUDITH ALLEN SHONE My wish for the Accepting the Gift of Caregiving series, “Is There Any Ice Cream?” and “Did You Hide the Cookies?” is that our stories will introduce insights and
By Nula Suchet The initial motive in writing The Longest Farewell was to keep James close to me, as he descended further and further into dementia. I wanted to recall our life
By Tio Stib Six years ago, I lost my sight, then discovered my wife was losing her mind to dementia. Our life took a sharp detour as I became her sole caregiver.
By Judith Shone Is There Any Ice Cream? “I believe it was overcoming the fears that gave me the strength and wisdom to recognize I would be ‘strong enough’ to be a
Love Remains by Florrie Munat, Washington, US “Are you going to write about this?” Chuck asked. I stopped sorting the pile of laundry that a nursing home aide had just left on
By Dr. David Davis and Joko Gilbert – As anyone who has walked in our shoes knows, there is a vast hole in the heart of a caregiver who, by a twist
By Don Wendorf I wrote CAREGIVER CAROLS: A Musical, Emotional Memoir to cope with my own emotional struggles as a caregiver for my late wife Susan with her strokes and vascular dementia
by Wren Wright It used to be that nine months or so after a traditional wedding, couples would announce they were pregnant. Not with Alan and me. Nine months after we were
By Gela-Marie Williams I remember the evening my youngest son came through to me in my bedroom holding a rather dog-eared manuscript of Green Vanilla Tea. I had worked on this family
By Barbra Cohn I spent a decade caring for my husband Morris, who died from younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease in August 2010. Afterward, I was compelled to write “Calmer Waters: The Caregiver’s Journey
