The river of life flows with memories of treasured moments. Help elder loved ones and those with memory loss to remember their past with the images in this short video.[...]
There are times we can learn unexpected lessons from the animal kingdom. An orange tabby cat with FIV and lymphoma taught me 5 Lessons of Caregiving.[...]
Article excerpts - Surviving Caregiver Burnout with Awe, Caregiving Gratitude, Cognitive Bias, A Daughter's Song in Her Mom's Memory, and Saying the Right Thing During A Crisis.[...]
Home-Grown Louisville Cougar with Dementia This five-foot tall powerhouse navigates the scary symptoms of frontotemporal lobe dementia (and possibly Lewy body dementia) with grace.[...]
Diverse Faces of Dementia – Kris McElroy At age 33, Special Olympian, Kris McElroy has already overcome more of life’s obstacles than many of us can imagine. Born with [...]
Married almost 40 years after a poorly worded pick-up line, Ira and Sandy Asherman now live with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type. That was Sandy’s evaluation during a [...]
Guest article by Florrie Munat A 2015 report by AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving found that 43.5 million Americans provided unpaid care for a relative or friend during[...]
Mom (or Dad) is Moving in With Us I would never place Mom in a nursing home! Mom and Dad raised me. The least I can do is help Dad, now that he’s alone. This is a topic no on[...]
Artist, Filmmaker, Wife, Mother, Fulbright Scholar, and Daughter of Holocaust survivors, Minna Packer was getting disoriented and anxious when the doctors (and she) thought she was[...]
Sue Matthews Petrovski’s Shelved is a practical down-to-earth “Memoir of Aging in America.” For those brave enough to take a peek into the future, Petrovski offers an objective vie[...]
The Caregiver’s Voice had the pleasure of interviewing UK-based Norman (“Norrms”) Mc Namara for this month’s VOICES with Dementia column. Diagnosed nearly 1[...]
