Writers As Well As Contributors
Bob DeMarco, Founder,
Bob DeMarco is the Founder as well as Editor of the as well as an Alzheimer's caregiver.
His woman parent Dorothy lived with Alzheimer's disease. Bob is a recognized Alzheimer's Influencer, speaker, as well as writer. The has to a greater extent than than 5,000 articles inward its knowledge base
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Rudy Tanzi, Neuroscientist, Harvard, Mass General
Received the 2015 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award as well as was named to the 2015 listing of TIME100 Most Influential People inward the World.
Dr. Rudolph Tanzi is the Vice-Chair of Neurology, Director of the Genetics as well as Aging Research Unit, as well as Co-Director of the McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as serves every bit the Joseph P. as well as Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Tanzi has published over 400 papers as well as has received several awards, including the Metropolitan Life Foundation Award as well as Potamkin Prize. Rudy as well as Deepak Chopra wrote, Super Brain, Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness, as well as Spiritual Well-Being.
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Rita A. Jablonski
Rita A. Jablonski PhD, CRNP, FAAN, is a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing.
She also practices at the Memory Disorders Clinic. Her enquiry involves ways to forestall as well as bring down care-resistant behaviour inward persons with dementia.She also acts every bit a coach for caregivers. Learn More at DementiaCentric Solutions.
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Tom as well as Karen Brenner, Montessori Gerontologists
Tom as well as Karen Brenner develop theatre unit of measurement members, professional person caregivers as well as medical staff inward the utilisation of cutting border interventions for persons who create got dementia as well as Alzheimer’s. The Brenners utilisation the Montessori Method every bit the foundation for their evidence based retentiveness back upward program. This programme uses the 5 senses, musculus memory, as well as spiritual appointment to maintain connections for persons with retentiveness loss. Tom as well as Karen are the authors of You Say Goodbye as well as We Say Hello: The Montessori Method for Positive Dementia Care.
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Marie Marley
Marie Marley, PhD, was a caregiver for Dr. Edward Theodoru, her delightfully colorful, wickedly eccentric Romanaian soul mate, for vii years. After he passed away inward 2007, she wrote an award-winning majority nigh their relationship, Come Back Early Today: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Story of Love, Alzheimer’s as well as Joy. In the course of instruction of narrating their 30-year love story, Marie illustrates the solutions she industrial plant life to 14 dissimilar issues that typically arise when loving as well as caring for someone with dementia.
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Carole B. Larkin, Geriatric Care Management
Carole Larkin MA, CMC, CAEd, DCP, QDCS, EICS is an skillful inward Alzheimer’s as well as related Dementias care. She also is a Certified Geriatric Care Manager who specializes inward helping families with Alzheimer’s as well as related dementias issues. Carole tin consults with families via telephone nationwide on problems related to the dementia. Her company, ThirdAge Services LLC, is located inward Dallas, TX.
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Max Wallack, Science, Games
Max Wallack is a pupil at Boston University as well as a Research Intern inward the Molecular Psychiatry as well as Aging Laboratory inward the Department of Pharmacology as well as Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine. His groovy grandmother, Gertrude, suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Max is the founder of PUZZLES TO REMEMBER. PTR is a projection that provides puzzles to nursing homes as well as veterans institutions that tending for Alzheimer's as well as dementia patients. Max is also coauthor of the book, "Why Did Grandma Put Her Underwear inward the Refrigerator? An Explanation of Alzheimer's Disease For Children"
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Stephen G. Post
Best-selling author of The Hidden Gifts of Helping (2011), Stephen Post is Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care as well as Bioethics at Stony Brook University. His majority
The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease: Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying was selected every bit a “Medical Classic of the Century” yesteryear the British Medical Journal (2009). He received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Board of the Alzheimer’s Association “In recognition of personal as well as professional person outreach to the Alzheimer’s Association Chapters on ethics issues of import to people with Alzheimer’s as well as their families” (1998).
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Rita Altman
Rita Altman, R.N., M.S.N., C.V.M., is the Vice President, Memory Care as well as Programming for Sunrise Senior Living where she uses the latest evidence-based enquiry to pattern as well as oversee the implementation of Sunrise's retentiveness tending as well as assisted living programs.
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David Shenk
David Shenk is the author of half-dozen books, including The Genius inward All of Us, The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of an Epidemic, Data Smog, as well as The Immortal Game. He has contributed to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Gourmet, Harper's, Spy, The New Yorker, NPR, as well as PBS, as well as is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. The Forgetting won First Prize inward the British Medical Association's Popular Medical Book Awards. Shenk has advised the President's Council on Bioethics, directed 5 brusque animated "pocket films" nigh Alzheimer's, as well as is a Senior Advisor to the Cure Alzheimer's Fund.
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Rachael Wonderlin
Rachael Wonderlin has a Master’s of Science inward Gerontology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She works every bit a Memory Care Program Coordinator as well as Manager at Clare Bridge of Burlington inward Burlington, NC. Rachael also writes on her ain spider web log at Dementia By Day.
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Mara Botonis
Mara Botonis is an author as well as Alzheimer's Advocate. She was honored inward 2015 with the Jefferson Award, the “Nobel Prize” of Community as well as Public Service. She is the author of When Caring Takes Courage, as well as frequent contributor of articles on Alzheimer's as well as dementia care.
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Dr. Brent Forester
Dr. Brent Forester is the Medical Director at the Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Unit at McLean Hospital inward Belmont, MA. Dr. Forester attended Dartmouth College as well as afterwards went onto Dartmouth Medical School. His fellowship inward geriatric psychiatry was done at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
Dr. Forester's clinical interests include: Geriatric Psychiatry: Late Life Depression, Alzheimer's Disease as well as related disorders, Geriatric Bipolar Disorder.
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Pamela R. Kelley
Pamela R. Kelley Pamela R. Kelley is the full-time caregiver for her mother. Before her caregiving role took primacy, Ms. Kelley directed an American Bar Association-approved paralegal didactics programme at the University of Alaska Anchorage from inside UAA's Justice Center. As she transitioned to full-time caregiving, she prepared a resources manual as well as presented lectures on long-distance caregiving to her UAA colleagues. She lives, works as well as writes inward Anchorage, Alaska.
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P.K. Beville
P.K. Beville is a specialist inward geriatric tending as well as author of the Virtual Dementia Tour™ (VDT) series. She also created the Family Edition to assist sensitize families to the plight of their loved 1 with cognitive impairment. The goal is to assist families develop realistic approaches to care. The VDT is a production of Second Wind Dreams® with proceeds going to assist modify negative perception of aging.
P.K. is available for behaviour assist at www.geri-help.com
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Richard S. Isaacson
Richard S. Isaacson, MD serves every bit Vice-Chair of Education as well as Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is the author of the several books including: The Alzheimer's Diet: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Step-by-Step Nutritional Approach for Memory Loss Prevention, as well as Treatment as well as Alzheimer's Treatment Alzheimer's Prevention: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Patient Family Guide (in English/Spanish).
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Rose Lamatt
Rose Lamatt is an author as well as a citizen journalist. Rose firstly learned nigh Alzheimer's piece caring for her dear friend Carol for xiv years. Rose is experienced inward adult twenty-four hr menses care, assisted living, as well as Alzheimer's support. Her wealth of experience led her to write Just a Word--Friends Encounter Alzheimer's. Rose is a writer/contributer to the .
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Wantland J. (Jay) Smith
Wantland J. (Jay) Smith was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s illness inward belatedly 2005, based on neuropsychological tests as well as FDG/PET. Since diagnosis, he became an early phase Alzheimer’s advocate, creating the firstly early phase retentiveness loss forum of the California Southland Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association inward Oct 2007, as well as led their minute early retentiveness loss forum inward March 2009. He has participated inward 3 early phase back upward groups, including the 1 he instigated as well as currently co-facilitates Leeza’s Place. He oftentimes shares his even every bit a panelist as well as through press interviews.
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Carol Blackwell
Carol Blackwell lives inward Northern Virginia with her married adult man Bob. Bob was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s inward 2006. Carol is a role fourth dimension leadership coach as well as instructor. Both Carol as well as Bob are active advocates inward the create produce against Alzheimer's disease. Bob as well as Carol are oftentimes featured on the USA Today website.
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Mary Gazetas
Mary Gazetas is an artist, writer, volunteer who lives inward Richmond B.C. Canada. Four years agone she knew nada nigh Alzheimer’s. In fact she didn’t fifty-fifty know how to spell that word. At firstly she as well as her married adult man were overwhelmed yesteryear hence much information available. Looking dorsum it was a wearisome learning curve. Once diagnosed (February 2008) the progression of her husband’s Alzheimer’s was fairly wearisome until he went into a steep as well as abrupt decline. Since then, Mary has continued to larn to a greater extent than - particularly inward the context of how to render the best tending inward a residence environment.
John T. McFadden
John T. McFadden is an ordained government minister of the United Church of Christ who served inward parish ministry building for 34 years. He writes as well as speaks extensively nigh aging, spirituality as well as dementia, as well as serves every bit chaplain to the retentiveness tending unit of measurement of the Appleton Health Care Center. He has most late authored a brief pamphlet nigh dementia for utilisation inward religious congregations titled Aging, Dementia as well as the Faith Community: Continuing the Journey of Friendship. He serves on the steering commission of the Fox Valley Memory Project.
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Mark Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Smith
Dr. Mark A. Smith received his B.Sc. with Honors inward Molecular Biology as well as Biochemistry from Hatfield College, Durham University, England (1986). He went on to earn a Ph.D. inward Biochemistry from Nottingham University, England, inward 1990. Dr. Smith spent the side yesteryear side 2 years every bit a Research Fellow at Sandoz Forschungsinstitut inward Vienna, Republic of Austria earlier joining Case Western Reserve University.
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Jason Karlawish
Jason Karlawish is a Professor of Medicine as well as Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania inward Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as the associate managing director of the Penn Memory Center. He studied medicine at Northwestern University as well as trained inward internal medicine as well as geriatric medicine at Johns Hopkins University as well as the University of Chicago. He is the author of the late published majority “Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont.”
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M.L. Swift
M.L. Swift is an aspiring author of Young Adult fiction as well as an Alzheimer’s caregiver. His blog, Treading Water inward the Goldfish Bowl, shares reflections of his life piece caring for his mother, Mary Helen. M.L. resides inward Crawfordville, FL.
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Elaine C. Pereira
Elaine C. Pereira is a retired schoolhouse occupational therapist who worked with special needs children. She earned her bachelor’s grade inward occupational therapy from Wayne State University as well as afterwards completed her master’s degree. Pereira as well as her married adult man alive inward Michigan. Elaine is the author of - I Will Never Forget: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Daughter's Story of Her Mother's Arduous as well as Humorous Journey Through Dementia
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Mary Kay Baum
Mary Kay Baum is living good with cognitive changes. Her electrical flow calling is to promote prevention as well as early intervention of Alzheimer’s as well as related conditions. Mary Kay was a schoolhouse board member, county board supervisor, attorney, courtroom administrator, as well as managing director of Madison Urban Ministry. You tin larn to a greater extent than nigh Mary at The Hope of Alzheimer’s: An Advocate’s Journey.
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Angil Tarach-Ritchey
Angil Tarach-Ritchey (RN GCM) is a National Expert inward Senior Care, with over xxx years inward senior tending as well as advocacy. She is a registered nurse as well as geriatric tending manager, author, speaker, as well as consultant. Angil is the author of Quick Guide to Understanding Medicare, Medicaid as well as other payer sources.
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Monica Heltemes
Monica Heltemes is a practicing occupational therapist as well as possessor of MindStart™. MindStart designs hobby-style items, such every bit games as well as puzzles, specifically for persons with retentiveness loss. They maintain persons with dementia active, piece giving back upward to caregivers, as well as are quick as well as tardily to use. Visit MindStart (Activities for Persons with Memory Loss) to larn more.
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Claudia Marshall-Apers
Claudia Marshall-Apers is the full-time caregiver to her mom, Pauline, who is inward the moderate to severe stages of Alzheimer's/dementia. Claudia is a transplant from New York where she was born as well as raised as well as similar a shot lives inward the beautiful landscape of Rio Rancho New United Mexican States with her married adult man as well as eighteen as well as 21-year-old sons, when they are home, along with their domestic dog Cinnamon. Claudia holds a Master's inward Art Education as well as is currently working on a serial of artwork nigh Alzheimer's/dementia.
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Nicholas Simmons-Stern
Nicholas Simmons-Stern is an undergraduate at Yale University, where he studies the cognitive neuroscience of music. He has worked for 4 years every bit a enquiry assistant at the Center For Translational Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2009, he as well as the enquiry squad at the CTCN began their exploration of the memory-enhancing properties of music inward Alzheimer’s illness (see Simmons-Stern, Budson, as well as Ally, 2010).
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Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott has been inward healthcare since 1984, working with a diverseness of people with disabilities. She has delivered numerous speaking as well as educational presentations nigh Alzheimer’s illness as well as how to tending for those suffering with dementia. Jennifer is currently Director at Area Agency on Aging of the Capital Area (Austin, Texas), as well as Founder at JAS Senior Care Consultants
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Cass Alexander
Cass Alexander is the media advisor with Alzheimers New Zealand. She has been inward the role only over a yr as well as works from New Zealand’s upper-case missive of the alphabet city, Wellington. Prior to this, inward around other non for turn a profit role, Cass worked for the American Field Service (AFS), organising publicity as well as writing publications. She has also worked inward diverse roles inward London as well as Ireland.
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Carol Wright (CJ)
CJ Wright is the sole caregiver for her woman parent who is inward a belatedly phase of Alzheimer's disease. CJ shares her insight, advice as well as experience at When does the glad start: Caring for Alzheimer's. She currently resides inward Silicon Valley, California.
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Donna McCullough
Donna McCullough, PhD received her Doctorate grade inward Clinical Psychology inward 1994 from Washington University inward St. Louis, Missouri. She has a individual practise inward Laguna Hills, CA. Donna has a special involvement inward spirituality as well as psychology, as well as she incorporates mindfulness as well as meditation into her go with clients. Donna is co-founder of Affirmative Therapy Products.
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Celia Pomerantz
Celia Pomerantz is a creative sales as well as marketing strategist, as well as inspirational speaker on Alzheimer's Caregiving. Celia is the author of Alzheimer's: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mother Daughter Journey a photojournalistic memoir nigh Celia's experience every bit the primary caregiver for her woman parent who had Alzheimer's disease.
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Mike Donohue
Mike Donohue is a Husband, Father, Grandfather as well as goodness friend to around wonderful people. He likes to read, to write as well as to effort as well as figure it all out. His life has had its ups as well as downs. It has given him insight into where he has been, why he was there, as well as where it is leading to. The most profound events inward my life were recovery from Alcoholism inward 1974 as well as diagnosis of Alzheimer's illness inward 2006. The firstly was my Watershed, the minute my Epiphany. Mike writes at My Alzheimer's Afterthoughts!
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Olga Brunner
Olga Brunner, M.Sc., Healthcare Administration as well as Gerontology. Dedicated to her client's concerns, Ms. Brunner's background has over 20 years service inward wellness tending management as well as vii years of professional person geriatric tending direction experience. She specializes inward dementia tending services as well as exhibits exemplary tending as well as dedication to her senior clients. You tin larn to a greater extent than nigh Olga as well as her services at A Good Daughter Knows.
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Sheryl Lynn
Sheryl Lynn is the author of the upcoming majority "The Light Is Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Thank You," which chronicles the spiritual journeying through dementia she has taken with her mother, Eleanor. She is the host of "Glow With The Flow Radio Show," currently on hiatus.
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Vicki de Klerk-Rubin
Vicki de Klerk-Rubin is on the Board of the Validation Training Institute as well as a certified Validation Master. She holds a BFA grade from Boston University, an MBA from Fordham University as well as is a Dutch-trained RN. Since 1989, Mrs. de Klerk has given Validation workshops, lectures as well as grooming courses throughout Europe, Nippon as well as the U.S. For to a greater extent than information nigh Validation, delight run into our website, Validation Training Institute.
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Ellen Belk
Ellen Belk is President of Keep In Mind™ as well as creator of Memory Magz™. Since 2001, Belk has specialized inward developing programming for the retentiveness impaired. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 mature instrumentalist concert band, an intergenerational Senior Prom as well as a Fine Art appreciation programme are alongside her professional person highlights. Memory Magz™ are ‘magazine style’ painting publications with total page vibrant images purposefully designed for people with cognitive spend upward and/or developmental disabilities. As a world speaker, Belk engages the audience with her inter-active vogue as well as witty even telling. www.keepinmindinc.com
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Barbara Pursley
Barbara Pursley was born inward Galveston, Texas as well as is the author of EMBRACING THE MOMENT. Barabara attended Santa Monica College, studied photography, as well as worked every bit a commercial lensman earlier returning to Texas to tending for her mother. Barbara also taught magazine writing to women inward Texas rehabilitation facilities. She pose her God inspired magazine entries as well as photographs into majority shape inward 2009.
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Laura Bramly
Laura Bramly is a writer, editor as well as graphic designer. She late created Life Scenes, a majority that helps people with moderate to advanced dementia to read again. Laura blogs nigh dementia-related topics at Mindset Memory Centre. She lives inward Canada with her married adult man as well as 2 children.
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Dorothy DeMarco
Dorothy DeMarco is a contributing author as well as oftentimes portrayed grapheme on the . Dotty resides inward Delray Beach, FL.
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Cheryl Appel Rosenfeld
Cheryl Appel Rosenfeld is editor-in-chief for CenterWatch, a global source of clinical trials information as well as publications. Previously, Cheryl was Assistant Business Editor/Special Sections Editor at The Boston Globe as well as Assistant Business Editor at the Boston Herald. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University as well as an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was the primary caregiver for her mother, an Alzheimer’s sufferer, for half-dozen years.
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Sydney S. Farrier
Sydney S. Farrier is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over xl years of experience working with adults as well as children. Sydney has held positions of Director of Social Work as well as Executive Director inward nursing facilities and an Alzheimer’s Assisted Living facility inward the Dallas area, worked for the Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, developing as well as implementing the “Trailblazer” programme which provides didactics as well as back upward to those with early phase as well as immature on-set Alzheimer’s illness as well as related dementia. She is currently at partner inward DFW Aging Solutions, LLC, a companionship that provides continuing didactics for professionals inward the land of wellness tending as well as Alzheimer’s care.
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Dr. Joshua Daniel Uy
Dr. Joshua Daniel Uy, MD, specializes inward geriatric medicine, is a theatre unit of measurement physician, as well as clinician educator. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Penn Medicine, role of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Uy is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. He is a fellow member of the Christian Medical as well as Dental Association, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Geriatric Society, as well as American Medical Directors Association. You tin read to a greater extent than yesteryear Dr Uy at THE GERIATRICIAN..
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Cindy Keith
Cindy Keith, RN, BS, CDP has extensive experience working with Alzheimer's as well as dementia patients. As a nationally known speaker, Cindy regularly travels throughout the U.S.A. of America giving day-long seminars on the importance of facility staff grooming inward all aspects of dementia care. Cindy is the author of Love, Laughter, & Mayhem - Caregiver Survival Manual For Living With Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Person With Dementia. She an last reached through M.I.N.D. inward Memory Care
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Donna Giovannetti
Donna Giovannetti is Director of Marketing as well as Broker Relations at Diversified Lenders Inc. inward Lubbock, Texas. Her manly someone parent suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
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Margaret Toman
Margaret Toman is an Alzheimer's caregiver, as well as cares for her 97 yr old mother, Lou Longest, who is inward an advanced phase of Alzheimer's disease. They alive together inward Garner, North Carolina.
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Diane Keefe
Diane Keefe earned her MA inward Gerontology from Webster University inward St. Louis as well as formed A+ Aging Advantage inward 2006. Ms. Keefe belongs to the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers as well as participates inward the local Midwest Chapter. She is President of the Mid-east Area Agency on Aging Foundation as well as secretarial assistant of Breakthrough Coalition, a consortium of over 200 agencies working with the elderly. Ms. Keefe speaks for the Alzheimer’s Association Speaker’s Bureau.
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Sharon Gregoire
Sharon Gregoire, Minneapolis, is an occupational therapist as well as president of Therapy Solutions. She has written a brusque workbook, I Still Enjoy a Good Laugh!, that provides an chance for the someone with Alzheimer's Disease to tape as well as percentage hopes, wishes as well as wisdom piece starting fourth dimension to uncovering self-advocacy skills.
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Viki Kind
Viki Kind MA, is the author of The Caregiver's Path to Compassionate Decision Making - Making Choices for Those Who Can't. You tin larn to a greater extent than nigh Viki at TheCaregiversPath.com
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Karen Matthews
Karen Matthews as well as her husband, Randy, alive inward Leawood, Kansas as well as are total fourth dimension caregivers for Karen’s 89 yr old mother, Louise. Karen is a residential existent estate agent with Reece & Nichols inward the Kansas City metropolitan area. Karen has an MBA.
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Marty D
Marty D is a stay-at-home fille caring for her aging parents. Her woman parent suffers from late-stages Alzheimer’s as well as her manly someone parent from Parkinson’s. Marty is learning that patience as well as grace are essential toward those suffering from a illness every bit good every bit toward those weighed downward yesteryear their care. She is the author of The Amazing Aging Mind blog.
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Linda Fisher
Linda Fisher published 2 books from her early onslaught spider web log -- Essays from an Online Journal as well as The Friendship Connection. She was the projection leader for Alzheimer’s Anthology of Unconditional Love. Linda is working on a nonfiction therapeutic writing majority as well as a fiction anthology. Linda blogs at Early Onset Alzheimer's.
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Judy Dearing
Judy Dearing writes nigh Alzheimer's, her woman parent Chrissy, as well as life every bit an Alzheimer's caregiver at Chrissy's Moments.
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Lee as well as Pat Sneller
Lee Sneller has a BS inward Industrial Engineering from Stanford as well as an MBA from California State at Los Angeles. He was an executive with a diverseness of manufacturing companies over his 35 yr career. He also was a professor of industrial applied scientific discipline at several universities earlier as well as after his retirement inward 2000. Lee was diagnosed with MCI inward 2005 as well as with Alzheimer’s inward 2009. Pat has a BS inward business organisation from California State at Fresno, is Lee’s sole caregiver, as well as works role fourth dimension from their home. Pat also serves on the 2010-2011 National Early Stage Advisory Group for the Alzheimer’s Association. Additionally both are Alzheimer’s Ambassadors, advocates who advance legislation critical to those affected yesteryear Alzheimer’s. They also are faithful readers of this spider web log as well as friends of Carole Larkin.
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Carol Trickett
Carol Trickett is the married adult woman as well as caregiver of her married adult man Bob. Together they alive inward Thorndale, Ontario, Canada. Carol is also the possessor of Trickett Glass as well as works from her abode studio where she offers custom designed window panels, giftware, repairs, as well as classes. You may persuasion her stained drinking glass go at www.trickettglass.ca.
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Lynn F Walker
Lynn F. Walker is an creative someone with a wacky sense of humor. Her mom lives with her as well as she sees each twenty-four hr menses every bit a novel challenge as well as around other laugh. Lynn blogs at YOU'RE MY DAUGHTER?
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Peggy Blevins
Peggy Blevins is a missionary who works with severely linguistic communication deprived children as well as trains teachers of the deaf inward hispanic countries.
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Faye LaPorte
Faye LaPorte is a dementia specialist at BrightStar Care of Grosse Pointe / Macomb provider of private-duty abode tending to assist maintain seniors independent as well as inward their ain homes. She is certified inward the Alzheimer’s Association essentiALZ™.
You tin larn to a greater extent than nigh how Faye approaches caregiving yesteryear visiting the BrightStar website.
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Danielle Tessa Scott
Danielle Tessa Scott is eighteen years old, as well as a freshman at Saint Michaels College. She majors inward Biology as well as intends to pursue a career inward a land related to physical therapy. Daniell'a granddaddy Harold Wellington Smith Jr., PopPop, is 82 years old and currently lives inward Alfredo Gonzalez Texas State Veterans Home, McAllen, Texas. She grew-up and currently lives ina inward the theatre that he designed as well as built with his ain 2 hands.
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Lin Cochran
Lin Cochran is veteran paper writer, mag columnist, characteristic writer, as well as author. Her married adult man was diagnosed with Alzheimer's inward 2011. Lin is currently working on her 4th book, Suicide Angels, the Metaphysics of Suicide, Where are they now? Lin also writes on her ain blog, The Alzheimer's Multiverse.
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Bill Schoux
Bill Schouxis 71 as well as a retired Foreign Service Officer with the US government's unusual assistance agency, USAID. He joined USAID during the Vietnam war, served in that location for 4 years, as well as was as well as then posted inward Washington, DC, After retiring from the governent inward 1992, he as well as his married adult woman Elise were consultants inward republic as well as governance with assignments inward Central as well as Eastern Europe, Africa, as well as Asia. Bill withal speaks Castilian as well as retains plenty Vietnamese to monastic enjoin inward a favorite restaurant. He was diagnosed with MCI inward belatedly 2003 as well as dementia of the Alzheimer's type inward 2009. His wife, Elise, is his caregiver as well as partner inward all things, including the create produce against Dr. Alzheimer. Although life is dissimilar as well as has its challenges, they remain focused on goodness things as well as each other.
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C J Pittsburgh
"CJ" as well as her married adult man Ed are caregivers for his 88-year old mother, Kay. After her husband's death, Kay was alone, didn't drive, had few friends as well as relatives around, as well as barely knew how to modify a lite bulb! CJ as well as Ed create got lived along with Kay for over 2 decades.
Their role has changed gradually over those years! They are the ones!
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Jackie Bowlin
Jackie Bowlin is caretaker to her woman parent who suffers from Alzheimers disease. In her spare fourth dimension she enjoys writing poesy as well as beingness with her grandchildren. Jackie resides inward Bullhead City, AZ where she enjoys the wearisome measuring of a modest town as well as the serenity beauty of the surrounding desert.
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Linda Halstead-Acharya
Linda Halstead-Acharya, a erstwhile reporter for the Billings Gazette inward Billings, Montana, is similar a shot a freelance author working on a majority nigh her experience with Alzheimer's disease. Before losing her woman parent to advanced Alzheimer's illness inward Dec 2011, she provided back upward for her father, her mother's prime number caregiver.
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Charlotte Parker
Charlotte Parker is the co-author of Return to Joy: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Family’s Initiation into the Mysteries of Dementia. This majority is a tale of 2 sisters as well as how they came together to human face upward the globe of dementia with their mother.
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Susan Larsen Daigle
Susan Larsen Daigle, PhD, has xxx years experience inward Public Health. She perceives healthcare every bit a way to brand a positive difference, restore equity as well as ensure the futurity is amend than the past. Susan cared for her sis as well as erstwhile spouse. She understands the feelings of despair as well as loneliness that caregivers tin feel, the danger of losing ones self inward the process. Learn to a greater extent than at Co-Hearts inward Care Giving.
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Debbie SchultzDeborah Schultz late spent 2 months carrying for her manly someone parent with advanced Alzheimer's after her parents were striking yesteryear a drunkard driver. She helps modest businesses utilisation the Internet to marketplace their companies online. She writes nigh Alzheimer's on her website Alzheimer's 24-7
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Nancy Iannone
Nancy Iannone is a Licensed Baccalaureate Social Worker, graduating with her BSW from Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. She is a Certified Geriatric Care Manager based on the stringent requirements of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (NAPGCM). Nancy is a fellow member of the National Association of Social Workers, NASW Arizona as well as the Arizona Hospice as well as Palliative Care Organization. CarePath Senior Solutions.
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Cindy Ward
Cindy Ward is a long term tending insurance specialist.
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Andrea Brown
Andrea Brown. I am working on a dissertation for my PhD on caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease. The study is to observe from these theatre unit of measurement caregivers what resources help, barriers to using them, as well as what their experiences are as well as create got been. I volition percentage my results yesteryear printing as well as publishing when my dissertation is finished.
I knew real picayune nigh Alzheimer's prior to my caregiving experiences, though I had worked inward the surface area of mental health. I also address grief as well as loss issues every bit role of the dissertation.
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Jane MacKenzie
Jane MacKenzie is a self described adult woman that gets things done as well as aspiring writer/blogger. She lived Alzheimer's from the Front Row piece caring for her father.
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J. Michael Steinhardt
J. Michael Steinhardt is a Wisconsin born, retired insurance executive, essayist, brusque even writer, as well as political commentator. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. Mr. Steinhardt has published inward several literary publications every bit good every bit local as well as national newspapers. He is also an Alzheimer's caregiver.
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Mal Ernst
Mal is 82; born Jan 20, 1930. Dean, his married adult woman of 41 years, is 86; she was firstly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 3-1/2 years ago. He retired from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission inward 1989 as well as has since consulted for the nuclear ability industry, sold residential existent estate, been President of several homeowners Associations, as well as been active inward managing activities at several member-owned province clubs. He plays around golf, bowls, as well as enjoys around yard work; as well as they withal move as well as bask eating out.
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Rita Mahan
Rita Mahan is 58 years old as well as retired from jewelry business organisation Rita has 2 children as well as currently Lives inward Cape Cod, MA.
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Kathy
Kathy along with staff at a skilled nursing facility inward Central North Carolina, I am a caregiver for my husband, Tim. He was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia at the historic menses of 50 after 4 years of traveling nigh as well as far for answers to our many questions. He volition plough lx inward August of 2010. He is a honey son, brother, uncle, husband, father, as well as friend. He is amazing as well as courageous as well as inspires me every day.
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Others
Kevin Stacey, Brown University
Michael C. Purdy, Washington University School of Medicine
Alison Trinidad, University of Southern California
Jocelyn Delaney
Janet Stinson Therrien
Dennis Fortier, Brain Today
Mike Williams, Rice News
Bruce Goldman, Stanford University
Lisa De Nike, The John Hopkins University Gazette
Michelle L. Brandt, Stanford University
Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University
Krister Svahn
Meredith Walker
Laura Bailey, University of Michigan
Diane Jones
Rachel Champeau, UCLA Newsroom
Sandy Leander, Arizona State University
Christine Kueter, University of Virginia
Henry McCambridge
Marilee Griffin, Univeersity of Florida