New! See below to learn more about our new team: Team DementiaMap.com! Something resembling a video game played by regular people like you and me is helping researchers increase the speed at which Alzheimer’s data is analyzed. It the past, you read about Stall Catchers in the Memory Cafe Newsletter (then from KalendarKards.) At that [...]

Volume 5 of Memory Joggers brings some fun additions to the growing library of free cognitive-building exercises. If you haven’t seen the four previous editions, visit the Memory Joggers Library to see them all, and download your free PDF. Here’s what you will find in Memory Joggers Volume 5: Birds of a feather flock… together [...]

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 [...]

We’re back at it with more Memory Joggers! It’s been a while, but there’s now 20 additional recall exercises in Volume 4. These are great – and very enjoyable – exercises to help boost recall. If you haven’t seen the previous editions, visit the Memory Joggers Library to see them all, and download your free PDF. Here’s [...]

Share Your Traveling Stories to Help Others Dementia Friendly Travel Memory Cafe participants know the importance of being active outside the home. Isolation isn’t any fun, nor is it healthy. Seeing, doing, and enjoying is why you attend Memory Cafes. No one needs to tell you that extending the concept of “outside the home” to the [...]

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 [...]

Another fun group of Memory Joggers is now available! 20 new teasers to help you exercise your loved one’s recall. Visit the Memory Joggers Library to download your free PDF. Here’s what you will find in Memory Joggers Volume 3: I heard it through the… grapevine There’s a method to my… madness Happy as a… [...]

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 [...]