Amber Marti and Felicia Wood

Conversations Through Alzheimer's

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In 2019, we slowly started to watch our mom, Rose Marti, lose cognitive function and our family didn't have answers for years. Her PCP told us she was "just getting old." We didn't accept that, and we kept fighting. In 2025, she was finally diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at 61. This podcast is what comes next. Conversations Through Alzheimer's follows a real family in real time. The fear, the love, the logistics, and the moments nobody warns you about. Hosted by sisters Amber Marti and Felicia Wood, this is an honest and authentic look at what it actually means to walk through this tog...

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Amber Marti and Felicia Wood

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Health

Podcast website

riverside.com

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

The In-Between: Watching Alzheimer's Progress in Real Time | Caregiver Update 06.07.2026

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...

Alzheimer’s Caregiving: How to Divide Responsibilities and Build a Care Team 29.06.2026

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...

Dementia vs. Alzheimer's: Early Onset, Early Stage, and What We Had to Unlearn 22.06.2026

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...

Getting the Alzheimer's Diagnosis: The Day We Had a Name for It (Part 3) 15.06.2026

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...

The Week Everything Changed: Early Signs of Alzheimer's (Part 2) 08.06.2026

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...

Meet Rose: Our Mother, Whose Alzheimer's Diagnosis Is Why We're Sharing Our Story 01.06.2026

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...

Before We Had a Name for It: Our Mom's Early Alzheimer's Signs (Part 1) 01.06.2026

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...

Introducing Conversations Through Alzheimer's 15.04.2026

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...

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