Barbara Erakko

Alzheimer's Transformed Barbara Erakko

Alzheimer's strikes terror in our hearts. No one can dismiss the burden of caregiving, grieving, and loss. Yet when caring for her mother, Barbara Erakko found herself inexplicably surprised by beauty, hope-and in some strange way-spirit emerging from the rubbles of a ruined mind. These carefully selected stories from Barbara's latest book, ELSIE AT EBB TIDE: EMERGING FROM THE UNDERTOW OF ALZHEIMER'S go to the heart of what happened between them when this unwelcome guest sat down at their "table of love." No place setting was laid. But eventually they both allowed it a place at their table. It became a member of the family -a part of their lives. And they were transformed by it.