An Interview with Author and Caregiver Lauren Dykovitz
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome Lauren Dykovitz to the show to discuss her new book and her journey caring, loving, and supporting her mother who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's. Through caring for her mother she wanted to help others facing similar situations with their loved ones.
As a result she has written two books and started a blog that attracts thousands of readers to help them with caregiving 101, avoiding caregiving burnout, and help provide them with the caregiver support that so many families need and benefit from while caring for their loved ones.
Lauren Dykovitz is a writer and author, who lives in New Jersey with her husband and two black labs. Lauren’s mom was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s in July 2010 at the age of 62. Lauren was only 25 years old at the time. She quit her full-time job and became a caregiver for her mom at age 28.
Lauren started the Life, Love, and Alzheimer’s blog and social media pages to document her journey and share her experience as a caregiver. Lauren self-published her first book "Learning to Weather the Storm: A Story of Life, Love, and Alzheimer’s" in 2017 and her second book "When Only Love Remains: Surviving My Mom’s Battle with Early Onset Alzheimer’s" in 2021. Although her mom passed in April 2020, it is Lauren’s mission to help others on their Alzheimer’s journey by sharing stories and lessons from her personal experience. In many ways, she feels like she is just getting started!
Connect with Lauren:
https://lifeloveandalzheimers.com/ https://www.facebook.com/lifeloveanda... https://www.instagram.com/lifeloveand...
Order the Lauren's First Book: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Weath...
Order Lauren's New Book: When Only Love Remains: Surviving My Mom's Battle with Early Onset Alzheimer's: Dykovitz, Lauren: 9798520743910: Amazon.com: Books https://www.amazon.com/When-Only-Love...
Sign-Up for Lauren's Updates and More: https://mailchi.mp/1afb83f4267e/first... (Link to sign up for her mailing list to receive the introduction to her new book, as well as any updates!)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:09.9 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number to all home care matters. |
| 0:27.3 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.8 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.8 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is. |
| 0:35.8 | That's why we try and make each episode here at All Home Care |
| 0:38.2 | Matters, something that hopefully matters to you. On today's episode, we have a very special guest, |
| 0:44.7 | Lauren Dikovitz. Lauren is a caregiver and an author of the book, When Only Love Remains, |
| 0:51.0 | surviving my mom's battle with early onset Alzheimer's. Thank you for joining us, Lauren. |
| 0:57.2 | Hi, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's our pleasure. So Lauren, you were sharing with us |
| 1:03.3 | that your mom was originally diagnosed with early onset dementia at the age of 62. And at the time you were 25 years old, what did that diagnosis |
| 1:15.1 | mean to you? What did you know about early onset? I really didn't know anything about it. |
| 1:22.0 | Before my mom was diagnosed in the process leading up to it, I had an idea sort of in the back of my mind |
| 1:31.0 | that there was something going on that could be Alzheimer's, something related to her memory, |
| 1:37.5 | but because she was so young, I never really, really thought that it was Alzheimer's. |
| 1:47.3 | And so once she got the official diagnosis, I didn't really know what to think. Being 25 years old, I didn't know anyone who had a parent. |
| 1:55.6 | I don't even think I really knew anyone who had a grandparent at the time. I just was not really familiar with it. |
| 2:02.3 | It was just sort of that, you know, people forget things is what I thought it was. And so I |
| 2:08.7 | really didn't know much about it. And I didn't know anyone at all or anyone my age who had had |
| 2:14.6 | a parent with the disease. So it was, you know, it was a lot to try to |
| 2:19.7 | process and figure out exactly what was going on at the time. So what did you do to educate |
| 2:27.1 | yourself? How, because I know for us, a lot of families that we help when their loved one |
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