What We Do
Alzheimer's Update
The new educational focus of Remembering When is to provide helpful information, ideas and to share learning experiences. To use knowledge and understanding as the tools to bring the everyday reality of Alzheimer’s disease to the public. To dispel the mystery of memory loss and how easy it is to help one another when we understand what’s happening.
Blog
The goal for Remembering When’s blog is to share tools. To spread knowledge not just about Alzheimer’s disease, but how to live with it day to day. It’s a building project, and the most important tools are knowledge and understanding.
Personal History
If genealogy connects the branches of ‘The Family Tree,' Personal Histories (PH) are the leaves. The tree comes to life with the rest of the story, the personal touches that connect the past to the present and future.
Our Blog
Put fear in it’s place
September/October Fear and denial are the ‘easy’ way out. Dictators or authoritarian rulers throughout history became powerful because fear is easy to spread and control. It is knowledge and understanding that get in their way. To control with power, the first obstacles they eliminate and manipulate are knowledge and education which are replaced with their […]
COVID-19 UPDATE
After nearly three months of sheltering a lot has happened. Hindsight shows the country’s leadership chose to remain unaware and unprepared to handle the spread of Covid 19. Conversations about testing facts and shortcomings of leadership had to be redirected. Within a month Covid 19 was leaving the cities and spreading across the country. Lives […]
Can You Recognize Early Alzheimer’s?
Last week what was the breaking news about Alzheimer’s? From Dr. Oz, his mother has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Was it a surprise? YES. But Dr. Oz is the first to say he didn’t pay attention to the early signs for over a year. Valuable lost time. Alzheimer’s is a slow-moving disease. But the severity […]
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Resources
The Alzheimer's Educational Toolbox you've been needing. Check out the latest information.
Speakers
Book Elaine to speak to your group, organization or facility on a variety of important topics.
Inner Eye
Discover, learn and share insights into the daily lives and experiences of families and individuals dealing with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Learn helpful tools to face the difficulties related to their ‘new normal’.
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About Elaine
Elaine is an active volunteer with the Alzheimer’s Association Speaker’s Bureau. Her focus is to educate the public on all aspects of Alzheimer’s Disease and how it can affect a family. She’s a facilitator for the Alzheimer’s Association’s, Changing Gears and Stress Busters programs. She also leads the support group at AT&T Baylor Memory Center in Dallas.
On January 8, 2019, the Greater Dallas Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, awarded Elaine the CARES trophy for her Commitment, Advocacy, Research, Education and Support for the Dallas and Northeast Texas region. In June 2018, in Washington DC Elaine, with 1200 other volunteers, attended the Alzheimer’s Forum. Their goal, to visit and encourage all members of Congress to promote the importance of Alzheimer’s research.
That’s current events. Before all that, Elaine grew up in a military family. Her dad, an army officer, was stationed at different military bases across the United States and Germany. Naturally, the family was exposed to history and different cultures.
Growing up with all the military travel, Elaine still made her own connection with her grandmothers. Over the years, when the opportunity was there, in college or raising a family, she volunteered at nursing homes. Even bringing her young son to play checkers with the residents. Through these years, Alzheimer’s took the lives of her grandmothers and mother.
History was a part of her life, but it was her dads’ love of genealogy and the use of the ‘new’ internet that sparked an interest in family history. Eventually, with her dad, those two interests connected with distant family relatives in Germany.
It wasn’t long before she discovered APH, the Association of Personal Historians, became a certified instructor in Guided Autobiography then later, to improve her public speaking, became an active member in Dallas Toastmasters.
In the last few years, with time and research, that’s lead to work as a historical story teller. Elaine has a way of making historical events and personalities interesting and entertaining. She takes that talent to clubs, churches, senior communities and other interested groups.
Using what she learned in Toastmasters, she became a volunteer with the Alzheimer’s Association. The time was right.
It’s an easy fit for Elaine to combine personal history, the education arm of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Speaker’s Bureau and her historical storytelling. It all works together.