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[...]
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[...]
Lifelong Florida resident, Ginny says, “As the years go by, some things don’t pop into my brain like they used to.” I was inspired to interview Ginny* after learning from Becky*, a[...]
New Zealand-based husband and father of four inherits his father’s younger-onset Alzheimer’s. ENTERPRISING While participants at the Dementia New Zealand – Hawke’s Bay [Adult[...]
Touching Each Other’s and Caregivers’ Lives As we close out the third year of featuring one voice every month in the VOICES with Dementia column, we are humbled by som[...]
There’s a saying among people who work with people with dementia: Meet one person with dementia and you’ve met one person with dementia. We can’t generalize among the diverse ways [...]
Fifty-eight-year-old Phyllis Fehr of Hamilton, Ontario was enjoying an eighty-degree sunny day at her home about an hour’s drive west of Niagara Falls, while I shivered in the low [...]
Life-long Iowa-based John Sandblom, co-founded Dementia Alliance International (DAI) to support, educate, and advocate for people living with dementia worldwide. What many people d[...]
Canadian-born Mary Beth Wighton, has been living with frontotemporal lobe dementia since 2012 when she was diagnosed at age 45. Two years later, she co-founded the Ontario Dementia[...]
Lyn Purser was born 46 years ago with intellectual disabilities. Born four months premature, she was placed on antibiotics shortly after birth. Five months later, she and her older[...]
Each person I’ve interviewed for this Voices with Dementia column surprises me. Before Brian LeBlanc, who also lives with dementia, referred me to Nancy Nelson, he wrote, “We’re al[...]
James McKillop, husband and father of four, was awarded the MBE by the Queen of England and received an honorary doctorate degree.* Before being bestowed with these two honors, he [...]
