AlzAuthors Virtual Q&A Features Authors Living with Dementia
By Marianne Sciucco, New York, USA Caregivers and those concerned about dementia have a million questions for those who live with it: What’s it like to have the condition? Are you scared?
By Marianne Sciucco, New York, USA Caregivers and those concerned about dementia have a million questions for those who live with it: What’s it like to have the condition? Are you scared?
By Marilyn Reynolds In July of 2009, when my sixty-nine-year old husband, Michael Reynolds, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), neither I nor any of our family or friends had ever heard
MY DAD MY DOG By Rebecca Warner When she moves her Alzheimer’s-afflicted dad into the home she shares with her husband and elderly dog, Rachel Morgan expects some complications, but she never
By Renée Harmon I’ve never successfully surfed before, and on my one and only attempt, I dislocated my shoulder. It happened on a family vacation to Costa Rica, but it was not
By Kathy Lowrey Smith The blog Living with a Thief named Lewy Body Dementia came about as a way to share my hands-on experiences of living with and loving someone diagnosed with Lewy
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 Layne Deemer When my father was alive and caring for my mother, he used to say, “You don’t know what it’s like in this house.” I hated when he said that,
By Peter Berry and Deb Bunt Surprising things can happen on the back of random decisions. When my husband and I moved from London to rural Suffolk, we were hankering for a
By Pat MacEnulty Dementia was the official cause of death for my mother, but it had chipped away at her life for the previous six years. She was 86 years old when
by Kathy Flora When I sat down at the computer, I intended to write an entirely different book. But the story of caring for my mom as she encountered physical and then
