Welcome, Rebecca Thesman, Author of Sometimes They Forget
By RJ Thesman How a Long-Distance Caregiver Learns to Cope When the memory thief first visited our family, we didn’t think much about it. Mom was, after all, fully capable of caring
By RJ Thesman How a Long-Distance Caregiver Learns to Cope When the memory thief first visited our family, we didn’t think much about it. Mom was, after all, fully capable of caring
By Elaine Pereira, MA OTR/L CDC DP My mother’s was a story that needed to be told. She was a kind, brilliant and talented woman all of my life until dementia took hold
By Rachael Wonderlin I started my blog, Dementia By Day, three years ago. I had no idea, then, that it would become such a huge part of my life. At the time,
By Molly LeGrand I’ve worked in Long Term Care as an Activities Assistant for ten years. This role has offered a unique perspective on Alzheimer’s as I typically will meet the person
By Sharleen Scott Her name was Judy, and I married her son. She was a Depression-era child who grew up in the Pacific Northwest forests, traveling with her grandfather’s logging company. She
By Barbra Cohn I spent a decade caring for my husband Morris, who died from younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease in August 2010. Afterward, I was compelled to write “Calmer Waters: The Caregiver’s Journey
By Marcee Corn Unclaimed Baggage is our personal story about Martha, our mother, and her journey through life and ultimately through Alzheimer’s disease. Our account is told in snippets of anecdotes from
By Karen Malena Love in the senior years: A true inspiration to me. My parents are married over sixty years as of this writing. Sixty years of ups and downs, good health
By Shannon O’Donnell In the late 1990s, I joined a writers’ group. The rules were simple: “Bring three pages, double-spaced, to read. Ask for the critique you want.” I wanted to write,
By Gurney Williams If dementia is a thief, guilt is an accomplice. My wife Linda’s disease stole years of our marriage until she was wholly dependent on a team of professionals in
