Cassandra Farren Crafts Moving Memoir, I’ve Lost My Mum
By Cassandra Farren Dementia is soul-destroying. Not only for the person who is diagnosed, but for anyone who loves and cares about them. I have been told many times that I have
By Cassandra Farren Dementia is soul-destroying. Not only for the person who is diagnosed, but for anyone who loves and cares about them. I have been told many times that I have
By Paula Sarver Mom has Alzheimer’s. It’s one thing to say it, but another to live it and understand it. In 2014, after placing Mom in a memory care facility, I found
Memories will fade, but my Alzheimer’s journey will live on in my words. By Marco Curt Davids My journey with Alzheimer’s started when I heard through the family grapevine that my father’s
By Senia Owensby Dementia was not even on our radar. When my sister and I found ourselves devoting extra time and energy into caring for Mama and Daddy, we simply assumed that
By Lorrie Beauchamp I leaped into caregiving for my parents with all the confidence and swagger of an entrepreneur, and was quickly brought to my knees by the reality of Alzheimer’s. What
By Julie Gorges I’m Your Daughter, Julie: Caring for a Parent with Dementia is the fourth book I’ve had published, but the one that I’m most proud of – dedicated to my
By Eleanor Cooney In the third grade, I was kicked out of show-and-tell for three weeks. I told a story that the teacher, Mrs. Fitz, had specifically asked me not to tell.
Stumped Town Dementia: Punching Dementia in the face one day at a time. By Lickety Glitz I started… … to worry that Mom’s behavior wasn’t old age quirky-ness, but possibly a much
By Daniel Kenner After many long months of exhaustive family struggles, cognitive and behavior changes and, a lengthy process of medical evaluations and tests, my dad, Buddy, received the devastating diagnosis of
By Miriam Green When my mom, Naomi, was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s I felt relieved. The doctors had finally acknowledged what our family had surmised for almost a year—Mom was losing her