new review highlights worrying...

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Why Holding Onto Fear...

Holding onto fear, worry, over-analysis, and relying on ‘intellectualizing’ every problem can...
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Missing You Mom, The Grief Just Never Seems To Pass

As many of you know, I stepped into the dementia arena, because my mother lived with dementia symptoms for 30 years. For the first 10 years, she was misdiagnosed and told it was her hormones. She knew it was different from what her girlfriends were going through, but she had never been taken seriously by her doctor. Now, I’ll admit it was a long time ago as Mom passed in 2014, add 30 years on top of...

"You Don't Look...

TRUTH: Alzheimer’s risks are higher among women, African-Americans and Hispanics. It is common knowledge that Alzheimer’s robs people of their ability to remember, but other...

Where the Truth...

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James My father doesn’t know that my sister,...

Fighting Alzheimer's From...

In the Fall of 2010, my family and I received the worst news we had ever had—my 57-year-old mom had dementia.  It’s been...

Facing Alzheimer's With...

My mom has Alzheimer’s.  And it’s not easy. Patience is not a trait that runs in our family, and Alzheimer’s tries to take away...

Twirling to End...

On The Longest Day, I will be fundraising for the Alzheimer's Association doing something I love, baton twirling. I have worked hard to...

Remembering the Best...

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of...

The Journey Begins,...

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks AdamsWe had known for a little more than a month...

Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Ride...

My journey on the Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Ride would consist of three days of riding. Two days to complete the Madison-Chicago segment and an...

Alzheimer's Awareness Comes...

Television talk show host and journalist Meredith Vieira launched “The Meredith Vieira Show” earlier this month. On the second episode of her nationally syndicated daytime show,...