Shannon Simcox

Seeing Hope In Color

After 35 years teaching art, Susan Jewett still finds joy in soaking in a museum exhibit.

Sharing her Heartsong

One of the things that Bee Drachenberg and her mother, Eulene Moores, have shared is music.

Art of the Mind: The Lonely Girls

Constance McBride took a long look around the assisted living facility, struck by the gender imbalance among her mother’s peers.

Faye Hall’s Journey Through Dementia

Using notes scattered around her mother’s home, Faye Hall painted a portrait titled “Journey Through Dementia.”

Making Sense of Alzheimer’s is a creative space for people to understand the past, present and future of Alzheimer’s disease. It is an evolving forum, a gallery of ideas, a museum without walls.

Making Sense of Alzheimer’s features stories and ideas that tackle the many and changing understanding of what Alzheimer’s disease is and how we try to make sense of it in our own lives. The voices of patients, scientists, writers, caregivers, students, singers, doctors, and artists are expressed here through words, images and sounds.

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