Celebrating 7 Years of AlzAuthors
How did 7 years sneak up on us? This little project was meant to last 30 days and here we are, counting 7 years of sharing dementia stories from personal experience to
How did 7 years sneak up on us? This little project was meant to last 30 days and here we are, counting 7 years of sharing dementia stories from personal experience to
AlzAuthors is once again partnering with HFC to present a Summer Book Series for Alzheimer’s and dementia families and caregivers. This program is open to anyone interested in learning about these conditions.
By Susie Singer Carter Disease is an equal-opportunity beast. At some point in everyone’s life, someone they love is going to be stricken with something. And it can cripple not only the
By Andrea Couture My memoir, Embracing What Remains, came from a place of love and respect and, in retrospect, a way of coping. I first realized I wanted to write my memoir
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 Rosanne Corcoran What struck me when I became a primary caregiver were the overwhelming feelings of isolation and confusion with no map to a nonexistent system of care. I lived in
By Barbara Smith I am an occupational therapist, specializing in developmental disabilities. I had never planned to work in the area of geriatrics. But when my mother developed Alzheimer’s disease, I was
By Vina Mogg Not Alone At a caregiver’s conference in Orlando, I read a poem I had written during the opening assembly. Three things that happened there marked my writing journey. A
By Dr. David Davis and Joko Gilbert – As anyone who has walked in our shoes knows, there is a vast hole in the heart of a caregiver who, by a twist
By Catherine Hodder, Esq. I was a corporate and banking attorney when my father began experiencing mini-strokes and having difficulty with his memory. We didn’t know at the time he was embarking
