"Efforts to reduce the aging prison population are driven not solely by compassion but also by the...
Category: Art
Caring for each other is a powerful and challenging experience. Many artists have been inspired by the experience of providing care.
When you call his mother from the psych unit
When you call his mother, give yourself time. A half hour, at least. Give up on the idea of...
As she nursed her mom through cancer and dementia, a tense relationship began to heal
In March 2020, Lori traveled to Florida to help Audrey move into an assisted living facility, a...
In ‘Corsicana,’ Will Arbery Puts Art, Family and Down Syndrome Onstage
Arbery, who grew up in Dallas with seven sisters in a conservative Catholic milieu similar to that...
The weight of caring at home
"I wrote/drew this opinion piece for the LA Times two years ago, right before COVID drastically...
Photographer aims to capture strength of young caregivers
Growing up with a mother who had schizophrenia, Max Alexander had first-hand experience as a young...
A Mother’s Steely Portraits of Her Daughter’s Life with Down Syndrome
For as long as Grevenitis can remember, being in public with Lulu has brought about a less welcome...
7 Photographers on Alzheimer’s, Dementia, and Heartbreaking Memory Loss
While making Breathers, a series of photographs of looming Pacific Northwest trees as metaphors...
Knowing art therapy but not knowing art therapy
My sketches were always faint lines in pencil. I loved sketching trees in a wide diversity of...
The cartoonist drawing comics about his mother’s Alzheimer’s
When Ted Rall’s mother started showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, it meant that Rall, who is...
Empty space
Moving out of a home and seeing that empty space where you used to always has a sad, beautiful...
In med school, a mission found me. But it will never be just a job — cancer and grief brought me to it
A young widow who lost her husband to cancer nearly drowned in grief and medical debt. Now Fumiko...
Photo Essay: Three States. Three Caregivers.
If you care for a parent or loved one, you almost certainly interact with doctors, nurses and...
Growing Up Ethan: How do you find independence when you’re coming of age with autism?
In the fall of 2006, when I reached out to the Floquet-McGovern family as part of a photography...
Losing my dad to dementia
https://youtu.be/ICo3lpQS2ck Ken jr wanted to share this video of him and his dad with our...
A Photographer Turns A Lens On His Father’s Alzheimer’s
At first, Stephen DiRado thought his dad was dealing with depression. Gene DiRado, then in his...
Mari Andrew on grief
If you're on Instagram, you may have already discovered Mari Andrew. If not, she's an amazing...
Inheritance delayed
01 Do I Know You? R.L. Gibson 16” x 20” Xerography (mixed media) 2014 02 But Now I See R.L. Gibson...
These Photos Helped Me Understand My Dad’s Overdose Death
I didn't know how to communicate with him, and so the easiest thing to do was to not communicate...
A community forged by loss and love – and photographs that found joy at the end of life
The emails poured in by the dozen, day after day after day. They came from parents and children,...
A tragic disease robs patients of their memory, but makes their visual world flourish
Carol Spence had been an accomplished artist all her life, first working in graphics, and then as...
What’s left behind
The caregiving for my Uncle fell upon my mother. He did not want the family to provide hands-on...
The saga of young carers
My name is Patrice Marie White, I'm from the UK. I am a former fulltime caregiver for my late...
My grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s
Over the past few years, my family has been involved with my grandmother’s battle with...