Discover Poems by Caroline Johnson in The Caregiver
By Caroline Johnson I began to write poetry related to caregiving when I started to observe the decline of my parents in the 1990s. My mother could never remember her lines
By Caroline Johnson I began to write poetry related to caregiving when I started to observe the decline of my parents in the 1990s. My mother could never remember her lines
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 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
Nancy’s Inside View on the Blue.River.Apple. Sliding Scale By Nancy Nelson One day traveling along the streetways of Las Vegas, NV, confident and sure of where I was going . . .
Dementia-Friendly Worship: A Multifaith Handbook for Chaplains, Clergy and Faith Communities by Lynda Everman and Don Wendorf We didn’t edit this book 25 years ago when we became caregivers for our parents
Why Stories Matter By JoAnn Franklin Do you know how a refrigerator works? If you answered yes, which most of us would, explain it to me please — in detail. Did you start
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
By Dorothy Horne, Texas, US My husband, Byron, was diagnosed in 2011 with early onset Alzheimer’s at age 62. He died on May 29, 2018. It still seems like yesterday. By God’s
By Cassandra Farren Dementia is soul-destroying. Not only for the person who is diagnosed, but for anyone who loves and cares about them. I have been told many times that I have
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
