I interviewed Cathie yesterday on Alzheimer’s Speaks Radio. Click below to hear her fascinating journey with her Mother’s dementia and how she handled it. Their journey is very inspiring and uplifting. In fact they are working on the screen play!
Cathie Borrie has degrees in health & law, but nothing prepared her for the seven years she spent caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Along this heartbreaking and unexpectedly fascinating journey she discovered that recording conversations with her mother, writing a memoir, and learning to ballroom dance were ways to tell both her and her mother’s story.
Here is the RADIO INTERVIEW
Here are two books that Cathie wrote about her journey with her Mother.
Excerpts from her lyrical memoir, The Long Hello-The Other Side of Alzheimer’s, have been shortlisted three times in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Literary Awards. Cathie presents her mother’s message of hope and inspiration all over the world and is adapting the work for stage and screen and for performance with music, dance, film, and voice.
Lynda Everman has made a personal campaign of writing letters, urging lawmakers and other advocates to join her in asking the postal service to reissue the stamp, as a semipostal.
Visit http://www.contactingthecongress.org and write their senators and representatives to ask them to co-sponsor the resolutions, or to call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to speak to them.
This is one of the best videos which really explains what music therapy does and how it works! Very powerful and well done. Thank you to Julie Anderson of Boom Baby Boomer and Judy Berry of Lakeview Ranch for making this video; along with Music Therapists Tami Briggs of Musical Reflections and Dayna Koehn of Noteworthy Health.
Personalized Music Matters. Please listen to this interview on WNYC’s SOUNDCHECK, Music & Memory social worker DAN COHEN joined host JOHN SCHAEFER to discuss the beneficial role music can play in elder care – particularly in Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. Joined by ANN WYATT, Residential Care Policy & Strategy Consultant from the Alzheimer’s Association, they discussed the positive effects of personalized music for Alzheimer’s patients.
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