Conversations Through Alzheimer's

Send us Fan Mail This is our season one finale, recorded on our mom Rosemary's birthday, and it holds three things: what's changed in Alzheimer's diagnosis and research over the last year and a half, an honest look at where we actually are now compared to where we thought we'd be, and a conversation with our mom herself to close out the season. We start with the biggest shift i...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a Q&A where we answer some of the most common questions we’ve gotten from support groups, forums, and our DMs about caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s. We cover the guilt that comes with getting frustrated or short with a loved one even when you know it’s the disease, how to know when it’s time to push for a cognitive evaluation instead of explaining sympt...

Send us Fan Mail This is a real-time early-onset Alzheimer’s update from our mom Rosemary’s two-week visit to see us in New York this summer, documenting what we noticed as the trip went on and what we learned about how much is too much right now. We cover the travel logistics first to help support her: using a gate pass and the Sunflower program for hidden disabilities. Then we walk through the t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a conversation with our dad, Lyle, about his experience as the spouse and primary caregiver for our mom Rosemary since her early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis. We talk through what it was like for him in the years before her diagnosis, including a career change and job loss in 2019 that he now recognizes as an early sign, and the long process of considering anxiety,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the caregiver resources and support systems we wish we'd known about sooner in our mom's Alzheimer's journey. We start with a quick check-in about our mom going to bingo with friends for the first time since her diagnosis, and the different instincts Amber and Felicia had about whether that was a good idea, which opens into a broader conversati...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about a question we hadn’t tackled yet on this podcast but have thought about every day since our ’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis: what does this mean for our own risk of getting the disease. Today we share more about what we learned regarding inherited risk of Alzheimer’s disease. More commonly genetics is just one contributing factor among many. We use the APOE2, APOE3,...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the connection between stress and Alzheimer’s disease progression, and the specific ways we’ve changed how we communicate with our mom Rosemary to help lower her stress. We start with a short update on the small logistical things that came up this week — mom scheduling her own doctor’s appointment and using shared medical portal access so she doesn’t have to...

Send us Fan Mail This is a real-time update on our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey from April 2026. We had been going through months of testing and workups to understanding if our mom would be a candidate for anti-amyloid infusion therapies — lecanemab and donanemab. We walk through the full workup: the APOE genetic testing, the lumbar puncture required to confirm eligibil...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about adding functional medicine to our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's care team, and how it's helped support her over the last year. We start with a quick update on where things stand outside of the medical side — her disability application is still pending after ten months on the Compassionate Allowances list, we're working on getting...

Send us Fan Mail This is the practical, unglamorous side of caregiving: wait lists, referrals, insurance chats, second opinions, and learning that you're allowed to ask for better. If you're just starting to build a care team for someone you love, this episode is the one we wish we'd had a year ago. When our mom was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, we thought getting a n...

Send us Fan Mail This is a real-time update from April 2026, nearly a year into our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey. And honestly, the weeks leading up to April 2026 is a lot!  We share some of the specific moments that stopped us in our tracks lately. A medical video she watched with us, cried through, and had absolutely no memory of two weeks later. A store name she&apos...

Send us Fan Mail When someone you love is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it hits fast. In this episode, two sisters document the real mechanics of building and managing a care team for their mom, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in June 2025. This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s an honest walkthrough of what they’ve tried, what’s broken, and what’s actually working, including the Skylight...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we start to unpack all the things we had to learn and unlearn about Alzheimers.  In this episode we'll talk about the differences between Alzheimer's and dementia, and the differences between being in the early stages versus having early onset Alzheimer's. We also share where things stand with our mom this week- because it was a hard week. The more...

Send us Fan Mail This is Part 3 of our three part series on getting to our mom Rose's Alzheimer's diagnosis. We take you from the beginning of April through to June 2025, to the day we got the blood test results that confirmed what we had feared. Along the way we walk through the neuropsych evaluation process, what moderate cognitive impairment actually means, the MRI results that made o...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1, we walked you through the early signs we noticed over years of visits and trips. In Part 2, we share the story of the one week that changed everything. It was the end of March 2025. Felicia and Dave were heading to Hawaii, and our mom flew to Orlando to meet Amber before they both traveled up to Plattsburgh to watch Oliver for the week. What we thought would be a manage...

Send us Fan Mail We are sisters Amber and Felicia, and we've watched our mom Rose step into one of the hardest chapters a family can face: an Alzheimer's diagnosis, in real time. Instead of processing it privately, we're choosing to share it. Every lesson learned, every milestone, the hard conversations, and the moments somewhere between grief and grace. In this first episode, we in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we take you back to before there was a diagnosis, before there was even a name for what was happening to our mom. We walk through the early signs we noticed over a series of visits, and how many of the signs we missed because they were easy to explain away.  From getting lost in a hospital parking lot, to wandering a hotel hallway in Washington DC, to struggling w...

Send us Fan Mail "We're not doctors. We're daughters." Amber Marti and Felicia Wood are sisters navigating their mother Rose's early-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis in real time and they're bringing you along for the journey. Conversations Through Alzheimer's is a real-time documentary about what it actually looks like when Alzheimer's enter...