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My Life Rearranged: Musings of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver By Susan G. Miller “Sooner or later, caregiving will touch us all. No one is exempt. A family member, loved one, or friend becomes ill and we step into help, consciously or unconsciously, assuming the role of caregiver.” Imagine coming home from the store and laying your [...]
In Search of Rainbows: A Daughter’s Story of Loss, Hope, and Redemption By Susan Landeis There are no Perfect Families At some point in our lives, many of us will find ourselves caring for a loved one. Now that the elderly are living longer, and more people are living with chronic illness, the number of [...]
The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home By Judy Cornish I’m always struck by how many books about dementia and Alzheimer’s are written by medical professionals. This in spite of the fact that most dementia care is provided by people like you and me — people doing their best to walk the [...]
The Lost Kitchen: Reflections and Recipes from an Alzheimer’s Caregiver By Miriam Green Reflections from Israel I live in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the Negev Desert, a small city of about 220,000. My immediate community consists mostly of other English speakers. I am always proud to say that we practice Abraham’s Hospitality here, inviting into [...]
H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey: Help, Organization, Preparation, and Education for the Road Ahead By Carol B. Amos, CDS My Caregiving Experience H.O.P.E. for the Alzheimer’s Journey: Help, Organization, Preparation, and Education for the Road Ahead is a guide for Alzheimer’s caregivers. When my mother, Elizabeth Boyd began experiencing memory loss in 2003, I began [...]
Hilda’s Story: New Bedford, Massachusetts (Before Today: Reminiscing & Connecting) By Siobhan McDonald “When I was a little girl I had two ducks named Alex and Cleo” A dozen tentatively hopeful faces looked at me as I began my story. It was at a Memory Care facility in Massachusetts. I had just packed up from [...]
Role Reversal: How to Take Care of Yourself and Your Aging Parents By Iris Waichler, MSW, LCSW Why I felt the Need to Write About My Experiences as a Caregiver My chosen career was medical social work/patient advocacy. I have done both for 40 years. My experience was primarily in hospitals, working with people who had [...]
Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia By Vicki Tapia Caregiving 101 Other than professionals, how many of us set out in life to become caregivers? Whether caregiver to our partner or a parent(s), I doubt many of us strive toward that as a life goal. My parents had lived a long and [...]
Imagine You The Best Caregiver By Virginia Garberding RN I am a registered nurse, for what I like to refer to as “a significant number of years.” When I began my nursing career, my mentors were the retiring nurses from the Vietnam War. This I am sure impacted not only all of our care but [...]
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