Episode 126: Life After Caregiving
After ten years of caring for three different family members who died four months apart, Andrea McMillan woke up to the realization that she was no longer responsible for the well-being of anyone but herself and her healthy daughter. On today’s show, Andrea talks...Anything For That Smile
Loretta Veney’s greatest fear is that her mother will outlive her money. Her great grandmother lived to age 107 and her grandmother to age 98. Neither had dementia. But Loretta’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 77. In today’s show, Loretta...The Overlooked Demographic in the Opioid Crisis
“You Don’t Respect What You Don’t Inspect.” These words of wisdom from Peter Rosenberger, the self-described crash test dummy of caregivers who I recently interviewed for The Agewyz Podcast apply in so many ways to caregivers — everyday warriors who care for...Episode 120: The Wide Circumference Of Love
Writing “The Wide Circumference of Love” turned best-selling author Marita Golden into an Alzheimer’s activist. In today’s show she tells us why and about the process of writing her novel, in which the real world impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the African-American...Scattered
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