Millennial Caregiver Writes About Mom With Early Onset Alzheimer’s
By Lauren Dykovitz When I was just 25 years old, my whole world was turned upside down. My mom, who was 62 at the time, was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
By Lauren Dykovitz When I was just 25 years old, my whole world was turned upside down. My mom, who was 62 at the time, was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease.
Anticipatory Grief: Powerful Feelings for Alzheimer’s Caregivers By Harriet Hodgson After my father died, my mother moved to Florida to be near her older sister. Two years later her sister died, and
By S. R. Karfelt Writing about memory loss wasn’t something I’d planned to do. I’m a fiction writer. But when my mother-in-law could no longer live on her own she moved in
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 Gerda Saunders A few days before my sixty-first birthday, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, which is the leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. My mother also had dementia.
By Niki Kapsambelis On a drizzly April day in 2009, I walked into a hotel suite in downtown Pittsburgh to meet members of a North Dakota family stricken with a rare genetic
By Candy Abbott I’ve Never Loved Him More A Husband’s Alzheimer’s, A Wife’s Devotion “Mom,” my daughter Kim said, “You know you’re going to have to write a book about how you’re
By Suzka Collins Ah… the wonders I found living with my mother in Dementialand. It all started almost minutes after she was diagnosed with progressive dementia. The cause was meningitis encephalitis. There
By Emily Page Writing about dementia came about fairly slowly and organically. I’m an artist, so when my dad was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia at the age of 65, my natural inclination
By Ann Hedreen Without quite knowing it at the time, I began working on Her Beautiful Brain in 2004, when my husband and I made an award-winning documentary film about my mother
