Remember This!
Thoughts, Inspirations, and Life Lessons
Please Don’t Be Patient
We’re prone to say “dementia patient” in casual conversation, even when we’re not referring specifically to someone’s medical condition or its treatment.
Remembering the Living: Yizkor and People with Dementia
Her father was still alive, but she wanted to say Kaddish for him anyway.
“I Love Looking into Your Voice”: Cathie Borrie’s The Long Hello
Ten years ago Lisa Genova self-published her novel Still Alice, because as recently as 2007 no establishment publisher would touch a story about a woman with early-onset dementia. Then Still Alice became a best-seller and a popular film, and actress Julianne Moore won...
Root, Root Root for the Home Team: The Memory Minyan
Possibly the world’s first dementia-friendly service to happen in a mainstream synagogue, rather than a nursing home
The Buddy System
It takes just 40 minutes a week to make a person with dementia a lot happier
That’s How the Light Gets Out
If you walk past a Hanukah menorah set in the window of a magnificent house, it burns no brighter than that in a ramshackle one.