Podcast: Tom and Karen Brenner Untangle Reaching the Unreachable
By Marianne Sciucco Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode we meet Tom and Karen Brenner, a couple with a passion to help those with dementia and their families connect on
By Marianne Sciucco Welcome back to the podcast! In this episode we meet Tom and Karen Brenner, a couple with a passion to help those with dementia and their families connect on
By Marianne Sciucco Welcome back to the podcast! This episode is a duet with two of our authors who happen to be years long friends brought together by their work in dementia
By Eilon Caspi, Ph.D. I started working in the aging field in 1994 as a nurse aide in a nursing home where my grandfather lived. I then worked as a social worker
By Marianne Sciucco AlzAuthors has partnered with Larry Smith and his Six-Word Memoir project to share our stories and raise awareness of Alzheimer’s and dementia. The idea is to tell your caregiver
By Gina Awad (Exeter, UK) Over a decade ago I began a health and social care degree with The Open University which inspired an immense interest in dementia, the complexities for the
By Laura Davis, California, USA My 2021 memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars, tells the story of my embattled relationship with my mother, our determination to love one another, and the dramatic and
By Sandy Stark-McGinnis In April 2020 my sophomore middle-grade novel The Space Between Lost and Found was published. It was the beginning of the
By Marianne Sciucco, New York, USA September is World Alzheimer’s Month. One hard fact we have learned through working with authors from across the globe is that dementia care varies from country
My mom moved out of the house when I was seven. That was a big deal in 1980—unheard of, actually. My dad raised my two brothers and me with little to no
By Susan Ostrowski If you search online, “Why do people read?” you’ll find answers like: “I read to know I’m not alone.” “Books unfold new worlds, worlds that can sing to me,
