Brain Health as You Age
Reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s disease seems to boil down to one basic theme. Newspapers, magazines, the internet, and TV seem to be full of stories about ways to stay…
Dementia Awareness Bill makes progress
This message was shared from the Dementia Action Collaborative Project. In meetings back in the Fall, the Funding workgroup of the Dementia Action Collaborative identified the need to embed a…
Sharon’s Story: Caring for Jerry
"When you love someone with dementia, the goal is not perfection... it’s okay to be good enough." Husband Jerry and caregiver Sharon Story — Photo provided by Sharon Story Years…
A Journey With Dementia
"When you love someone with dementia, the goal is not perfection... it’s okay to be good enough." I have heard that when you meet a person with dementia – you’ve…
Moments of Quiet Loss
1) It's not that she doesn't remember,but mindslips of quick forgetting,increasingly beset her between rising and dressing,finding and losingwanting and getting. 2) Not finding pieces of the sky to fit…
The Alzheimer Waltz — Learning the Dance
Before Ann Farris became an Education Specialist with Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska (ARA), she was a caregiver to her mother, Marlene, who was living with Alzheimer’s disease. We think this…
A Tale of Two Families, cont.
...Continued from A Tale of Two Families Virginia and Stuart had four children: three boys and one girl. In addition to being an officer's wife, raising the children was Virginia's primary role. One of the…
A Tale of Two Families
Our story begins with two loving families growing up under different circumstances. It could be characterized as Aesop's Fable "Country Mouse and City Mouse", as their environmental circumstances led to…
Tom and Peggie Iskra
Voices of the Last Frontier Chorus group is one of the actions we took to make her life easier and to help her journey through the next stages of her…
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