By Mary Edwards-Olson I wrote  When the Sun Shines Through because of my personal journey. I was a caregiver for my mother and ...

By Anne F. Balcom Mom was diagnosed with dementia in 2006. From the moment my parents told my sister and me the news I began losin...

By Lisa Wingate The Gap In every story I write, there are bits of real life, nibblets of sheer invention and sprinkles of serend...

It's Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, and AlzAuthors is celebrating its THIRD ANNIVERSARY! To celebrate this achievement, and ...

by Miki Klocke My Mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when she was 56 years old and still working two jobs. I was 33 and became her...

by Jean Lee Both of my parents were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s on the same day. They were in their mid-eighties. I was the homet...

Writing a book about Alzheimer's was not something I planned to do when I sat down to write my first novel. It was a lifelong dream...

The Accidental Author  By Linda Brendle My goal in life was not to become a writer. I enjoyed writing when I was younger, and...

By Meg Foster 7 Spiritual Steps – A Journal to Ease the Way According to Alzheimer’s International, globally, there a...

By Linda Jenkins After five years in the making, writing this memoir has been one of the most intense endeavors I’ve ever taken...

By Bobby Carducci “What’s going to happen to Rodger?’ was the first thing most people asked upon hearing of my mother-in-law’s...

LIFE, REPURPOSED By Amie McGraham The year I turned fifty, I transitioned from a successful thirty-year sales and marketin...

By Lauren Dykovitz When I was just 25 years old, my whole world was turned upside down. My mom, who was 62 at the time, was diagn...

  By Ann Campanella  Brian Kursonis, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s, and I met for the first time back in April. He showed up at ...

 By Harriet Hodgson After my father died, my mother moved to Florida to be near her older sister. Two years later her sister died, and M...

By S. R. Karfelt Writing about memory loss wasn’t something I’d planned to do. I’m a fiction writer. But when my mother-in-l...

By Crissi Langwell The story of Come Here, Cupcake focuses on an aspiring baker, Morgan Truly, and the magical ability she’s discov...

November is National Caregiver Appreciation Month, a time to recognize the long hours, sacrifice, and love all caregivers bring to the t...

Expressing the Inexpressible through Poetry By Ann Campanella When I was in my early thirties, my mother began showing signs...

By Gerda Saunders A few days before my sixty-first birthday, I was diagnosed with cerebral microvascular disease, which is the leadin...