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Meet Paul M. Hornback, author of “God Still Remembers Me”

May 30, 2017Blog#aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Amazon, #author, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #DementiaCommunity, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #writersVicki Tapia

By Paul M. Hornback

GOD STILL REMEMBERS ME

I’ve been living with early onset Alzheimer’s disease for over seven years. Soon after my diagnosis, God kindled within me a deep desire to do something positive for people who were struggling with this disease. I wanted to help them maintain their faith as they face the challenges of living with early to mid-stage dementia. Continue reading →

Meet Celia Koudele, author of “The Little Book for Alzheimer’s Caregivers”

May 16, 2017Blog#aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Amazon, #author, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #DementiaCommunity, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #writersVicki Tapia

By Celia Koudele

The Little Book for Alzheimer’s Caregivers

This book was my legacy for the next generation, putting in writing as much as I could about my experience helping caregivers of dementia patients.

My mother, grandmother and aunt all died from a type of Dementia, mostly Alzheimer’s. Continue reading →

Meet Pippa Kelly, author of “Invisible Ink”

April 12, 2017Blog#AlzAuthors, #Amazon, #author, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #guilt, #Kindle, #loss, #writersVicki Tapia

By Pippa Kelly

Before signing off the final proofs of my debut novel I read the manuscript for the first time in over a year and realised that it was not just laced, but saturated, with guilt.

Invisible Ink tells the story of Max Rivers, a young London lawyer who seems to have it all: a beautiful girlfriend, a burgeoning career, an enviable address – but he harbours a secret. Continue reading →

Meet Rachael Wonderlin, author of “When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community”

April 4, 2017Blog#aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Amazon, #author, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #DementiaCommunity, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #writersVicki Tapia

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 part of my life. At the time, I was working for Brookdale Senior Living in North Carolina. I had just finished my Master’s degree in Gerontology at UNC Greensboro, and I was thrilled about my first full-time job in dementia care. Continue reading →

Meet Arthur Levine, author of WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING

August 18, 2016Blog#ABAM, #aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Alzheimer's, #Amazon, #author, #blogger, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #life, #Memories, #writersVicki Tapia

Last night I lit a Yahrzeit candle for my father, who’s been gone for two years. And I decided, at the last second, that rather than sing a traditional prayer, I’d just sing a few lines from one of his favorite Broadway tunes. It made me smile in a moment that was otherwise sad.

Like many, my father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s was a long and gradual one, but that did not make it easier for him, and it didn’t make it easier for all of the people who loved him. We had to say goodbye over and over as parts of who he had been vanished like color from a beloved garment, never to be restored. Continue reading →

Meet Karen Malena, author of Love Woven In Time

August 16, 2016Blog#ABAM, #aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Alzheimer's, #Amazon, #author, #blogger, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #life, #Memories, #writersVicki Tapia

Love in the senior years: A true inspiration to me. My parents are married over sixty years as of this writing. Sixty years of ups and downs, good health and bad, happiness and sadness. But one thing remains: a steadfast love. It is this love that inspired me to write; theirs, and another couple: my husband’s elderly aunt and uncle. Continue reading →

Meet Carol Howell, author of Let’s Talk Dementia

August 11, 2016Blog#ABAM, #aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Alzheimer's, #Amazon, #author, #blogger, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #life, #Memories, #writersVicki Tapia

My mother, Vera, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in October of 2006. That was the day my world changed – forever. I will never forget (or is that statement actually true?) the day I received the phone call. “Mrs. Howell, I am calling to tell you your mother has dementia.” The doctor lacked bedside manner, and he assured me he could call in medications that would make Momma better. Continue reading →

Meet Marsha L. Burris, author of Miracles All Around Me

August 9, 2016Blog#ABAM, #aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Alzheimer's, #Amazon, #author, #blogger, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #life, #Memories, #writersVicki Tapia

My parents raised four children in a small community located near Charlotte, NC where they were active in social and church affairs. Jim coached Little League and Rusty directed the polling place in our precinct. My siblings and I grew up, went to school, and made life-long friends there. But then, gradually, negotiating the complexities of social interactions became more difficult for Mom and Dad and they withdrew from the activities they once enjoyed. Continue reading →

Meet Tanya Ward Goodman, author of Leaving Tinkertown

August 4, 2016Blog#ABAM, #aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Alzheimer's, #Amazon, #author, #blogger, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #life, #Memories, #writersVicki Tapia

I grew up in in the mountains of New Mexico in a roadside attraction built by my father.

With the exception of, “I love you,” I have probably spoken this one sentence more than any other. I defined myself as the daughter of Ross Ward, the man who created Tinkertown Museum.

I did not mean to write a book. After my father died from complications of early onset Alzheimer’s disease, I sat down with my journals to try to understand what had happened to me and to my family in a five-year period that began just before I turned thirty. Continue reading →

Meet Karen Kaplan, author of Encountering the Edge: What People Told Me Before They Died

August 2, 2016Blog#ABAM, #aging, #ALZ, #Alz Books, #AlzAuthors, #Alzheimer's, #Amazon, #author, #blogger, #book, #caregiver, #caregiving, #dementia, #eldercare, #ENDALZ, #guilt, #Kindle, #life, #Memories, #writersVicki Tapia

Encountering the Edge by Karen B. Kaplan

It can get lonely carrying on with this job that most people think I must be a “little strange” to be doing. “You’re a hospice chaplain? Isn’t that morbid to be doing that?” Someone felt my going so far as to write a book about it was downright peculiar and distasteful. But with my front-row seat at Act Three Scene Three of people’s lives, I keep getting intimate glimpses of what hospice patients are pondering, remembering, laughing Continue reading →