Guest Author Beth Cavenaugh details the Hospice questions we don’t even know we need to ask and how to advocate for ourselves and loved ones.
Books & Publications
“Tales & Travel Adventures” Interactive Literacy Activities for People Living with Dementia Mary Beth Riedner, B.A., MLS East Valley Memory Cafe (volunteer) Sun Lakes, Arizona, USA When the pandemic hit in March, 2020, all in-person Memory Cafe programming came to a halt. Some Memory Cafes quickly pivoted and started offering virtual versions almost immediately. I had [...]
How I Recovered from Dementia By William Emmett Walsh MD The dementias, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lewy Body dementias, are simple to explain and understand. Poisons, also called toxins, contaminate all our foods. The body shields our brains from these toxins, but aging degrades this shield, and we suffer from dementia. Diet change can lead to [...]
The Comfort in their Journey® Book Series By Trish Laub A Most Meaningful Life, my dad and Alzheimer’s “I have a story to share. I am a daughter who took the walk through Alzheimer’s with my dad, a journey that did not come with a roadmap.” Those two sentences start my book, A Most Meaningful [...]
A Roadmap for Living Well with Dementia By Jonathan Graff-Radford, M.D., and Angela Lunde The Mayo Clinic If you’re living with dementia or caring for someone who is, you’ve likely heard a lot about the losses and the deficits that dementia can cause. You’ve probably already gotten a lot of good information on changes in [...]
Dementia-Mama-Drama: A Daily Dose of Dementia with Mama Drama By Vincent Zappacosta A collection of our “Daily Doses” of dementia. “Dementia-Mama-Drama” chronicles our thirteen year journey as caregivers for Mama. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always heartfelt with short chapters sprinkled with photos. Mama wanted her story told and that’s how “Dementia-Mama-Drama” started. In the [...]
Mirrors of the Camino Parallel accounts of traveling the Camino de Santiago, as voiced by pilgrims from both the Middle Ages and the 21st century. By Randy Bateman Aging is a Marathon – Not a Sprint Teens and 20s Growing old is unimaginable when we are in school, striving to understand who we are and [...]
Love Doesn’t Care If You Forget Lessons of Love from Alzheimer’s and Dementia By Brianne Grebil Learned, but not Taught The most valuable things that I’ve learned about life, I learned from my mother. But I learned them long after she was able to teach. My mother was diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer’s five years [...]
Things Unsaid By Diana Y. Paul Heads Up! Get ready for a long relationship between you and your aging parents. Parents are expected to take care of their children, but most parents never intend to become a burden on them. Yet illness or infirmity may make it impossible to continue to care for themselves. Often [...]
