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My Mom is Dying

I’ll never forget the first time my mom looked at me and didn’t know who I was. The mall was ridiculously crowded that day, the way it usually is…

Alzheimer’s is a cruel disease. It takes folks to lunch and then robs them blind—of the memory of what they just ate. It takes them to…

*Due to regulations, names and some details were changed to protect the privacy of this patient.* It was a rainy Tuesday evening on a particularly…

I read an article today that brought tears to my eyes. It was about a woman and what she would say to her kids if she was diagnosed with…

In my age old book of childhood truths, angels were typically those “good doers” who would fly around and hang out somewhere in heaven. They were…

My mother-in-law Shirley was a gifted country cook. Thanksgiving at my in-law’s house was celebrated with a huge stuffed turkey, perfect gravy,…

The Alzheimer’s disease epidemic is here. More than 5 million people in the United States already have Alzheimer’s, the nation’s…

Alzheimer’s and other forms dementia caregivers devote a significant amount of time and energy to the person with Alzheimer’s disease.…