Patience, Kindness, and Humor: Lessons from Caregiving with Vicki Tapia (Book Club Replay)
By Marianne Sciucco, New York, US Vicki Tapia is a founder of AlzAuthors and the author of Somebody
By Marianne Sciucco, New York, US Vicki Tapia is a founder of AlzAuthors and the author of Somebody
By George Ackerman, PhD, JD, MBA, MS, Florida, US My mother, Sharon Riff Ackerman, suffered with Parkinson’s and
By Margaret Stawowy, California, USA In August 2019, I returned to the Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival in
By Susan Wilson Krechel, M.D. When my own health failed and I was forced to send my dear
MY DAD MY DOG By Rebecca Warner When she moves her Alzheimer’s-afflicted dad into the home she shares
By Caroline Johnson I began to write poetry related to caregiving when I started to observe the
This memoir also allowed for the interweaving of family history, a fleshing out of characters, and a means of affirming through narration the individual’s continuing worth, untainted by the loss of physical and cognitive abilities.
By Vicki Tapia In 2004, both my parents were diagnosed with dementia, Dad with Parkinson’s-related dementia and Mom
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