credit: Christine Vaughan Davies
Hospital chaplain Christine Vaughan Davies writes a Substack newsletter called “Journeying Alongside.” A recent article is about the ordinariness and extraordinariness of waiting, and what we can do while waiting.
In 2025, Brain Support Network’s LBD, PSP/CBD, and MSA caregiver-only support group meetings will take place on the second Sunday of each month, with the exception of May, 5-6:30pm. The meetings are open only to those living in Northern or Central California. We alternate between in-person gatherings (even-numbered months) and virtual gatherings (odd-numbered months).
Jocelyn Jiao, MD
Please join Stanford movement disorder specialist and palliative care physician Jocelyn Jiao — and friend of Brain Support Network — at the CurePSP virtual care conference on Tuesday, November 19, 10:35am-11:25am PT.
We wanted to take a moment and share some of our best posts about self-care for caregivers. It is our hope that we have provided meaningful resources to those with neurological disorders, their families, and their caregivers.
source: Candace diCarlo/Penn Gazette
This is an interesting article about the director of the Penn Memory Center, Jason Karlawish, MD. Much of the article is about caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia. The article notes that Dr. Karlawish introduced a patient’s caregiver to the concept of “loving deceptions.”
