When Alzheimer's is a Surprise!

What happens when your father, who appeared to be just fine, surprises you by telling you he has Alzheimer’s Disease?  Watching anyone’s steady cognitive decline is always difficult. However, my next guest, Peter Maeck took, along with his other siblings, a different and rather poetic approach to their dad’s caregiving.  His father even joined in on the creative solutions that they discovered together. 

You might be surprised about how creativity, analytical thinking, and caregiving can all come together to build even stronger bonds within a family. 

Guest: Peter Maeck, poet, novelist, playwright, photographer, and Caregiver to his father. His narrative poem Remembrance of Things Present: Making Peace with Dementia, celebrates his father's brave, and good-humored experience with Alzheimer's disease. Peter's novel, Zänker, will be released in June of 2023. Peter served as a US State Department American Cultural Specialist in Tanzania and Morocco. He holds a BA in English from Dartmouth College and an MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University. Links to Peter's TEDx talks follow:

• Remembrance of Things Present
• Cradle and All
• Beautiful Dreamer, with his son Gabriel Maeck a former social worker

Host:  Nancy May, Author of How to Survive 911 Medical Emergencies, Step-by-Step Before, During, After!  is an expert in managing the path of step-by-step caring for aging parents, even from over 1200 miles away. For a free, fillable File-of-Life go to www.howtosurvive911.com. Nancy is also the Co-Founder of CareManity LLC, and the private FaceBook group, Eldercare Success.

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