Do you use flyers for advertising Alzheimer’s events?  Or if you’re an author, do you ever promote your book about Alzheimer’s with flyers?
I’d never realized how much more there is to using flyers than simply handing them out, either through the mail, at your place of business or to friends and family. Check out Yvonne Russell’s guest post, How to Get the Most Out of Your Advertising Flyers, at Home Biz Notes.  Here she offers many tips for utilizing and tracking the effectiveness of different types and colors of flyers.   
Yvonne is writing here about using flyers for your business.  However, …read more

                                           Sunday, September 9 commemmorates National Grandparents’ Day.  How are you celebrating this occasion? 
Sometimes we feel it doesn’t matter if we celebrate holidays and special occasions with family members who have Alzheimer’s. 
“They don’t know what day it is.  So what does it matter?” we often hear commented or may even say ourselves.
However, just the fact you made them feel special, took time to visit (if they don’t live with you) or arranged a celebration often brings a smile, a story, a comment that lets you know they do care, even when they can’t express it too well.  Also, it may …read more

I’ve had requests for updates of the book about my mother’s journey through Alzheimer’s, When We Become the Parent to Our Parents.  A publisher has asked me to expand the book and include a section of coping with life after one’s family member is gone.
I wrote this book while Mother was alive and hoped, by sharing her sister’s and her story, I could encourage others coping with Alzheimer’s in the family.  It also was a tribute to these valiant ladies, Esther Rider and Mary Place, who lives I wanted to be significant and remembered.
So I’m in the midst of working on …read more