By Kacy Chambers, Tennessee, USA When I was a child my paternal grandmother, Godmother, and great aunt had dementia/Alzheimer’s. The adults never had a conversation with us (the children in the family)
By Marianne Sciucco, New York Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN is the author of Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring, poems written when she became a nurse poet in the 1990’s.
“It’s been well-established that writing and honest sharing are deeply healing practices that relieve anxiety, increase resilience, and promote self-compassion. Sharing caregiving stories with those facing similar challenges diminishes isolation by providing
By Julissa Cruz Two years ago (on one of my family vacations) I realized that my 10-year-old niece suffered a lot from her grandmother’s cognitive disorders. Especially her short-term memory. In my
Up in the Sky So Blue By Lisa Graff When I was a young girl, sitting on a swing, I imagined I could vanish into another world if I swung high enough.
By Christiana Egi, Toronto, Canada I am a Registered Nurse, and the motivation to write this story began in my first year as a student nurse. Our first mental health rotation was
By Ruth Stevens My mother, Muriel Port Stevens, suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last five years of her life. During that time, I often found myself trading war stories and sharing sympathetic
By Christy Byrne Yates, M.S. I can’t recall when I became aware that I was being squeezed as part of the Sandwich Generation, or that both my parents had some form of
By Carmen Tribbett First off, I was born in Austin, Minnesota, a very long time ago. I am, in fact, almost eighty-nine. Writing is my fifth career. Writing the “Monster Dog” book
Lil’ Boy By: Barry K. Gibbs Jr. This book started as a poem about my relationship with my Grandma. I decided to develop it into a book after she passed. I wrote Lil’
