Chosen Families: A Message for Pride Week
Q: What is the thing you straight professionals who work with LGBT families with dementia need to understand?
A: Expand your definition of family.
Unintentional Communities: How the Quest for Affordable Dementia Housing May End Up Creating Better Conditions for Everyone
Both young people and elders thrive emotionally and spiritually—and they do better financially—when they are together in a symbiotic community.
Small World! And Growing.
Seivah has been not just a single service provider, but a resource empowering sibling institutions and individuals, both Jewish and otherwise, to create their own models of care for people affected by dementia.
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