The good news is that Mom still reacts positively to personal interaction with the staff at her memory care facility. The bad news is...

Perhaps the uncertainty in our world-wide predicament is similar to the permanent sense of uncertainty that Alzheimer’s patients experience.

In the absence of our touch, the staff is now responsible for doling out affections to Mom.

I forgot to visit Mom yesterday at her memory care facility. When I realized I’d missed my appointment, it was too late to do anything...

My dad and I go back and forth on whether our visits with Mom are achieving anything. When she saw my dad a few days ago, she called to...

We’ve had mixed experiences on our visits with Mom this past week. It is difficult to connect with her from a distance.

We might think that the easing of restrictions means the end to the coronavirus scare, but we’d be wrong.

How can I not hold her hands and pull her to me for kisses and hugs? That’s how I tell her I love her.

The terms of visitation sound like they’re straight out of a horror movie.

It was a small moment of clarity in an otherwise uneventful video chat.

We are nothing without our memories. This is one of the terrible aspects of Alzheimer’s.

The residents in Mom’s ward can’t be isolated one from the other. They need constant supervision.

We are no longer surprised by her absence—we know she cannot be home with us—but we miss her nonetheless.

It’s important to put our Corona pandemic into perspective. We are not being persecuted. We have enough food.

If I try and look at the positives, I can find them.

The combination of age and close living quarters in geriatric facilities creates opportunity for the virus to spread.

Moving my cat Zipper reminded me how someone with Alzheimer’s might react to a planned upheaval.

When I started sorting papers and things that have been sitting in my bedside table, I came across a stack of birthday cards that my...

Rather than push her to interact, we took her back to the common room and put her headphones on.

My mom is not always in a good mood, and her English is quite spicy when she’s angry.