Image above credit BeBrainPowerful.org Dementia does not run in my family. Nonetheless, as a dementia care partner, I think about brain health a lot, and I know that taking care
I have not written in several weeks. I was busy learning humility, gratitude, patience . . . and what full-time, all-out caregiving really means. Tracey had total knee replacement surgery
Tradition is important for memory. Sometimes people who no longer know our names still know the words to childhood prayers and carols. They don’t recognize our faces but they can
They’ve been telling you for years that holidays with dementia need to be simpler, less hectic, and quieter, but I see you, my care partner friend, trying to make the
As I mentioned in a recent post, you can ask anybody about the initial diagnosis of dementia and you will hear that they were told, “get your affairs in order.”
In case you missed the news, there is an election coming up on November 3rd in the United States. In Ohio, early voting has begun both in-person and by mail.
You get that diagnosis—finally. Sometimes, the diagnosis alone takes years, and you are just relieved that the problem has a name. This is an actual disease, and neither one of
Dear Gloria’s Way Community, I am honored to have been asked to contribute and curate my own column for the Gloria’s Way caregiver blog. You and I are on a
