Poetry Written After Caregiving: The Beach Poems by Ann Campanella
Expressing the Inexpressible through Poetry By Ann Campanella When I was in my early thirties, my mother began showing signs of Alzheimer’s. She was 41 when I was born, so I suppose
Expressing the Inexpressible through Poetry By Ann Campanella When I was in my early thirties, my mother began showing signs of Alzheimer’s. She was 41 when I was born, so I suppose
A Gift in a Strange Package By Lori La Bey, founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks I have to admit caring for my Mother with dementia was not on my bucket list. In fact,
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
By Peggy Bushy When Lewy Body Dementia entered my home, the world as I knew it began to shift, and I found myself in a constant state of confusion. My sweet mother,
By Celia Koudele The Little Book for Alzheimer’s Caregivers This book was my legacy for the next generation, putting in writing as much as I could about my experience helping caregivers of
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 Cynthia Hamilton It took a life-altering crisis to make me realize that despite having known my mom for 50+ years, I didn’t know who she was as a person in her
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
