by External Article | Jun 22, 2022 | Caring for a Client, For Friends & Family |
“I hope you’ll still laugh at my jokes when I have dementia,” I said to my husband Ryan on an evening walk not long after my thirty-fourth birthday. It was the first time I had tried out my new resolution to stop saying “if I get dementia” and to start referring to... 
by External Article | Apr 7, 2016 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Client, Caring for a Neighbor, Death & Dying, Finding Meaning, Grief |
Janet Adkins, a fifty-four-year-old English teacher, decided to make herself gone before the disease got the chance. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, she was Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s first client. A minister friend asked me recently about my grandfather. I... 
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