The One I Know

Gone Again: A Diary of Two Wives

Bill Eisen has twice experienced once-in-a-lifetime loss: the death of one’s spouse to dementia.

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.

On Optimism

Looking back, Jackie Carney realizes that the signs were always there.

Lester Potts’ Changing Color Palette

When Lester Potts was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, his family thought he had given up. Then he met artist George Parker.

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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