During the week of September 15 - 22, 2018, a cruise specially designed for caregivers and their loved ones living with early-stage dem...

By Niki Kapsambelis On a drizzly April day in 2009, I walked into a hotel suite in downtown Pittsburgh to meet members of a North...

by Susan Kiser Scarff Within a year of my husband receiving his dementia diagnosis, I had a classic case of caregiver burnout. I cou...

By Suzka Collins Ah… the wonders I found living with my mother in Dementialand. It all started almost minutes after she was diagnos...

By Ann Hedreen Without quite knowing it at the time, I began working on Her Beautiful Brain in 2004, when my husband and I made an ...

By Peggy Bushy When Lewy Body Dementia entered my home, the world as I knew it began to shift, and I found myself in a constant st...

AlzAuthors was founded in 2016 by myself and three other daughters of dementia who met over the internet because of our books. We forme...

By RJ Thesman  When the memory thief first visited our family, we didn’t think much about it. Mom was, after all, fully...

By Cynthia Hamilton It took a life-altering crisis to make me realize that despite having known my mom for 50+ years, I didn’t k...

By Elaine Pereira, MA OTR/L CDC DP My mother’s was a story that needed to be told. She was a kind, brilliant and talented woman all of ...

By Rachael Wonderlin I started my blog, Dementia By Day , three years ago. I had no idea, then, that it would become such a huge ...

By Gela-Marie Williams I remember the evening my youngest son came to me in my bedroom holding a rather dog-eared manuscript of G...

By Susan Suchan When I look at the faces of my grandchildren and see the joy and blessing that they and my family and friends bring t...

  By Kathleen H. Wheeler Why choose Alzheimer’s as the focus of my new family saga novel Brought To Our Senses? It’s a fair ...

By Krysten Lindsay Hager After my dad passed in the summer of 2015, I was sitting on my couch watching TV when I got a...

by Ann Campanella In my early 30s, I learned that life can change direction when you least expect it. My husband Joel and I h...

By Molly LeGrand I’ve worked in Long Term Care as an Activities Assistant for ten years. This role has offered a unique perspe...

by Wayne Evans I’ve never had a family member diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, nor have I been a caregiver. I didn’t even know much ab...

By Paula Spencer Scott I knew little about dementia back when my grandmother began using a kitchen pot for a commode. Or when my d...

by Sharleen Scott Her name was Judy, and I married her son.  She was a Depression-era child who grew up in the Pacific Northwest f...