by Heather Laskin | May 4, 2017 | Animals, Inspiration
Alzheimer’s and dementia are heartbreaking diseases because they slowly strip away the person we once knew. They no longer remember how to do things that once came easily to them and they start to forget the names and faces of those closest to them. For a person...
by Heather Laskin | Oct 8, 2016 | Inspiration
Finding out that a loved one has Alzheimer’s or dementia is incredibly heartbreaking. The person who never forgot a birthday, never forgot to tell you they loved you, will eventually not remember you at all. When brothers Andrew and Matt learned their...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 29, 2016 | Awesome
Anyone who has ever walked through Alzheimer’s with a loved one knows how hard it can be to watch a loved one lose memory of everything and everyone they know and care for. Memories of who spouses, children, and grandchildren are fade as you are but a stranger to...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 29, 2016 | Awesome
The Lantern of Chagrin Valley, located in Chagrin Falls, Ohio is only one of three amazing facilities designed specifically for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients. Designed to look like small houses with porches leading out to a golf course, the living facility feels...
by Heather Laskin | Jun 11, 2016 | Awesome
83-year-old Jean Walters, who suffers from dementia, lost her husband, Dennis, to lung cancer in 2005. A month before he passed, knowing he might not live much longer, Jean’s granddaughter, Abbie Webb, gifted her grandmother a teddy bear that held a recording of...