What Is Hospice Care? If you are caring for someone with dementia, the word hospice may feel frightening or final. You may worry that considering hospice means you are giving up, that care will stop, or that you will lose control over decisions. That hesitation is understandable. Choosing hospice, however, does not mean choosing less care. It means changing the goal of care. Hospice focuses on comfort, dignity, and quality of life for someone with a limited life expectancy. Hospice does not...

As a volunteer with the Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness Memory Companion program, my role is simple yet profound: connect with people.

Did you know that older Black Americans are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as their white counterparts, and Latin Americans are one-and-a-half times as likely? In Part 1 of this blog, we explored how the environments we live in shape stress levels and how chronic stress exposure affects brain health. Now, we’re going to dive deeper into how these same environmental factors drive disparities in brain health. Leah Daley, Education Program Manager at the Alzheimer’s Foundation of...