Stories from people navigating dementia — diagnosis, treatment, caregiving, and the ordinary days in between.
5 stories
Caregivers
A mid-career daughter used unpaid leave, reduced her hours, and eventually resigned. Her notebook recorded what caring for a parent with vascular dementia cost both of them.
Rosa Delgado · August 19, 2026 · 8 min
Mind & Body
An adult daughter’s care notebook recorded medication changes and forgotten meals. It also showed how long she had been grieving her mother while her mother was still alive.
Nadia Okafor · 7 min read
Caregivers
In busy clinic rooms, caregivers are expected to manage everything while remaining completely invisible. Learning to interrupt is an act of survival.
Rosa Delgado · 5 min read
Caregivers
When Julian delayed university to care for his father, nobody warned him about the paperwork, the isolation, or the complicated guilt.
Rosa Delgado · 5 min read
Caregivers
Managing early Alzheimer's from four hundred miles away meant spreadsheets and paranoia, until bringing my mother into my spare room changed everything.
Rosa Delgado · 5 min read
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One health journey each morning — no advice, no alarm, just company for the road.
