Joe Brazeal reflects on lessons learned as a father and caregiver. Joe Brazeal’s wife, Kimberly Brazeal, was only 42 years old when she began…
Scott Rose speaks about the memories he shared with his late wife Maureen Patrick-Rose, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and appendiceal cancer. Finding…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Berta Carbajal remembers her mother…
Neurologist Lenora Higginbotham in Atlanta shares how her grandmother’s Parkinson’s journey inspired her present-day career in neurology. This article is part of the series Diversity…
A career journalist, newspaper and magazine editor, Greg O’Brien learned from his mother what it means to truly live with Alzheimer’s, and it was…
Jean Lee remembers her late parents for who they were in their essence, a loving and positive couple who raised her with faith and…
The years Rochelle Long has spent caring for her mother and aunt with Alzheimer’s have transformed her into an advocate for Paid Family Leave. …
We all have a vision for our future, aspirations we hope to achieve, whether it be in our careers, relationships or passions. A diagnosis…
For Nicole Bell, her husband Russ Bell’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s was inexplicable. Russ was young and otherwise fit and healthy. He exercised, ate…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Image: Luisa Echevarria at the MALDEF Chicago…
In the 1980s, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student of English, developing her expertise in language and literature, her father Jerry, now deceased,…
Anthony Copeland-Parker and his partner Catherine Elizabeth Popp have long had a passion for traveling and endurance running. And they weren’t about to let…
Alzheimer’s can often be a long, drawn-out illness, and for Patti Davis, this long goodbye was also a blessing. Looking back on her late…
This panel discussion is part of Being Patient’s Diversity & Dementia series, produced with support provided by Eisai. Black and Hispanic people are at a…
This article is part of the series Diversity & Dementia, produced by Being Patient with support provided by Eisai. Image: Robert Reid and his wife Kimberly….