They forgot but I can’t help but Remember: The Thoughts of Your Average 16-year-old (now 21-year-old) Dementia Caregiver His once-clear mind had become a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces, leaving him trapped within the labyrinth of his own memories. At first, it was manageable. Tori’s mother would cook him meals, they would both help him…

Take a quick look at this photo collage and short video that I complied of my grandfather and grandaunt. Titled Favourite “Stolen” Memories, the idea behind this collage is to reunite them with the past and invoke feelings linked to these memories. To that end, it also aims at raising awareness and improving knowledge about dementia…

Here you will be able to read three different stories unfolded, one embedded with the complexities of family relationships and the challenges of caregiving, another with a man of the community who built himself up, only to have dementia tear him down and the last about a woman who lost her home and career but…

HOME ABOUT THIS BLOG Dementia is a generic term for a group of symptoms relating to reduced cognitive abilities such as memory and concentration impairment, which are serious enough to affect daily life. “Amnesia’s Granddaughter” is a blog website where this caregiver tells true stories and emotionally charged experiences that expose the complexity in supporting…

Félicité Ville Castries The gutter guppies were true freedom fighters. I liked to watch them swim – I still do – in the grey, stagnant water in the gutters that ran through Castries. Picture from r/whatsit displaying small fish in a gutter These sludge-filled veins ran through the city, distributing the heavy smell of rot and…

A digital anthology of forgotten Caribbean traditional medicine, as seen through the eyes of the younger generation. Re-engaging with Caribbean traditional medicine means re-connecting with Caribbean cultural history and with the stories of those before us. I want to take you on this marvelous journey with me, starting with a poem read by a Jamaican…