Lauren Dykovitz

There were many different versions of my mom throughout the ten years she battled Alzheimer’s disease. With each new stage of the disease, my mom became a different version of...

My mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when I was 25 years old. When I was 28, I decided to quit my full-time job and become a caregiver for my mom...

The day after my 62-year-old mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, I called my best friend to tell her the news. My friend’s response was that her grandmother had Alzheimer’s...

Is there a member of your immediate or extended family who you feel doesn’t do their part in helping care for your loved one? Do you harbor resentment toward this...

When my mom was in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s, her mom went into the hospital. We told my mom and took her to visit my grandmother often because the...

My sister and I first started noticing signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in my mom almost a year before she was officially diagnosed. She had short-term memory loss, trouble...

Early on in my mom’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, I could not be around her without having to leave the room to cry at some point. I would look at her and...

Do you remember the last time your loved one called you on the phone? What about the last time your loved one remembered your birthday? Or the last time your...

One of the hardest decisions we had to make during my mom’s ten-year battle with Alzheimer’s was for her to become bedbound. A few months before my mom passed away...

My mom and I were getting ready to have lunch in the food court at the mall one day. It was really crowded that day, so I decided to have...

For about two years during my mom’s battle with Alzheimer’s, I lived far away from her and my dad. I flew home every two or three months to visit them...