Marilynn Garzione, Author and Alzheimer's Expert
Summary: Tackle a tough subject with author Marilynn Garzione as she shows your audience how to achieve the unthinkable---finding joy in Alzheimer's. Marilynn Garzione, the Author of "Released to the Angels: Discovering the Hidden Gifts of Alzheimer's," can help your listeners discover the gifts hidden in Alzheimer's.
It's easy to see the pain and loss within this devastating disease. But Marilynn Garzione was able to discover remarkable awareness, beauty, joy, and humor that gave meaning to a world transformed by the pain of dementia.
Book Marilynn to share with your listeners:
- Ways to understand how life, no matter how fragile, holds joys to be discovered and strengths to be learned.
- That we cannot control Alzheimer's, but we can control our reactions to it.
- There is no protection from Alzheimer's; so focus instead on the life still going on around it.
- How to boldly go where no caregiver has gone before! Seek joy and experience life for what it offers us.
Topics: Alzheimer's from a family caregiver's perspective. Alzheimer's: How Can I Do This? Can there be any joy in Alzheimer's?
Credentials: Based on her personal experience caring for her husband, Patrick, Marilynn Garzione is a dedicated speaker and advocate for research leading to an eventual cure for Alzheimer's. She has testified to members of the New York State Legislature, and has spoken in Washington, DC at the National Alzheimer's Association Public Forum. Marilynn has taught for years at the State University of New York: Language Immersion Institute and is currently teaching at Vassar College.
Her latest book, "Released to the Angels", is an inspiring collection of humorous anecdotes, thoughts, and observations of a devoted couple as they go through the progressive stages of Alzheimer's.
Availability: By telephone or in person in New York City.
Web Site: www.releasedtotheangels.com
Contact: released2angels @ aol.com
