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alzheimers, dementia, dementia diagnosis, dementia stigma, early onset dementia, younger onset alzheimers
Today, I’m pleased to share a guest post by Derek Fisher. In this piece, Derek discusses dementia in the workplace and the need to help businesses become dementia friendly. With people like Norman McNamara leading the charge, I suspect the UK may be doing a better job of reducing the stigma than we are in the States. Even so, I think we can agree there’s a lot more work to be done worldwide. Continue reading
We celebrated you by doing things you would have enjoyed this weekend, but I guess you already know that. If I’m not mistaken, I looked up on Saturday and saw you smiling down on us. It was likely the most beautiful weekend of October, two gorgeous days strung together. Nothing but sunshine and blue skies. Another tribute to your beautiful life, no doubt.
The fact is, it would be so easy to sit and cry every single day about what we’ve all lost and how unfair it is. Although the excruciating, knife-through-the-heart pain of those initial weeks and months following your death has faded, I think I miss you now more than ever. So many life changes and countless moments where I’ve thought, “I wish I could talk to mom.”
Thank you to 
The Long and Winding Road... 