An Interview with the Co-Founder of AlzAuthors - Marianne Sciucco R.N.
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a truly remarkable person who is working to raise awareness about Alzheimer's and dementia and making a difference, Marianne Sciucco.
Marianne Sciucco is not a nurse who writes but a writer who happens to be a nurse, using her skills and experience to create stories that bear witness to the humanity in all of us. She writes contemporary, women's and young adult fiction.
A lover of words and books, she studied the craft of writing as an English major at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and worked for a time as a newspaper reporter in New England. She eventually became a registered nurse to avoid poverty.
With more than 20-years’ experience as a staff nurse and case manager, she's worked with countless families dealing with issues related to aging, elder care, Alzheimer's, and nursing home placement. In 2002, she put the two together and began writing about the intricate lives of people struggling with health and family issues.
She published her debut novel, Blue Hydrangeas, an Alzheimer's love story, in 2013 to glowing reviews. This book led her to become a co-founder and director of AlzAuthors, the global community of authors writing about Alzheimer's and dementia from personal experience to light the way for others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, |
| 0:06.0 | with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:26.9 | Thank you. Rated Local. Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:29.5 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for |
| 0:32.7 | taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:34.5 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try |
| 0:38.1 | and make each episode here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:43.0 | Today, we are very honored and privileged to welcome the co-founder of All's Authors, Marianne Shuko. |
| 0:50.2 | All's Authors is a 503C nonprofit that is doing tremendous work for families, caregivers, and those who are battling dementia. |
| 0:58.2 | Welcome, Marianne. |
| 1:00.1 | Hi, Ann, thank for inviting me to come onto the show. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm really happy to be here. |
| 1:04.5 | Yes. |
| 1:05.2 | So, Marianne, tell us how All's Authors started. |
| 1:10.8 | All's authors started out of necessity because i had written a book |
| 1:15.1 | about alzheimer's and dementia a novel called blue hydrangees and alzheimer's love story |
| 1:20.6 | which was based on my work as a nurse with some patients that i had met and And I was having a really hard time finding an audience. |
| 1:32.4 | So at the time, I was in a group of authors called Clean Indy Reads. And what we did was support |
| 1:39.4 | each other and help to promote one another. And it was very active and helpful. |
| 1:49.2 | So I started thinking my wheels were turning and I wondered, gee, if I could find other authors who have written books about Alzheimer's and dementia, maybe we can do the same thing. |
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