Pauli Pedersen, Washington, USA Mental health problems today seem to be everywhere. In our aging generations, families are meeting mental issues that used to be kept in the closet. Currently, aching hearts,
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 Margaret Stawowy, California, USA In August 2019, I returned to the Tuolumne Meadows Poetry Festival in Yosemite National Park. Once a regular attendee, I had put the Festival and many
By Patrick J McTaggart, Scotland Our Dementia Journey is a collection of heartfelt and emotional poems about my family’s journey with dementia, including messages of hope and advice for those on the
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 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 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
Stumped Town Dementia: Punching Dementia in the face one day at a time. By Lickety Glitz I started… … to worry that Mom’s behavior wasn’t old age quirky-ness, but possibly a much
Sometimes The Caregiving Journey Chooses You By Terri Anderson There are several ways where people find themselves as a caregiver. Some by choice, some not. I didn’t choose the caregiving life. It
By Vicki Kaufmann, MA, MPSt “Cobwebs in my mind!” was how my mother depicted the disease that ravaged her brain. Mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia in May 2000, after
