Ann Campanella Author of "The Shoulder Season"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Ann Campanella as guest to the show.
Ann Campanella is a former magazine and newspaper editor and is the author of three memoirs and four collections of poetry. Her award-winning writing has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals and online sites across the country and around the world. Her first memoir, Motherhood: Lost and Found, was named "One of the best Alzheimer's books of all time" by BookAuthority two years in a row.
Since 2017, Ann has been a manager/director of AlzAuthors.com, a nonprofit organization with the mission of sharing Alzheimer's and dementia resources to light the way for others. In 2018, she was recognized by her hometown newspaper as one of the Most Influential Women in her community for her work promoting Alzheimer's awareness.
Ann's second memoir, Celiac Mom, won the 2024 Silver Medal in the Nonfiction/Health category of the Readers' Favorite International Book Award. This book has become a "go-to" resource for the celiac community.
A social-media influencer, Ann uses her Instagram account @glutenfreeforgood to spread awareness about this condition. Ann's most recent book, The Shoulder Season: A Memoir of Fracture and Grace, shares her experience of going from a caregiver to someone who needed care after a serious injury.
Ann hopes it will provide hope and inspiration to those facing a season of health challenges. Ann and her husband live on Lake Norman in North Carolina and enjoy nightly sunsets.
About "The Shoulder Season":
After decades of being physically fit, riding and training horses, Ann's life skids to a stop when a seemingly innocuous accident (tripping over the dog) turns into a traumatic injury that shrinks her world. She succumbs to severe pain and faces difficult surgeries that require a two-year recovery.
On the brink of an empty nest, a few months before the pandemic, Ann is no longer the busy caregiver who juggles her family's needs along with her writing work and caring for her farm but becomes the person who needs care. Ann must discover a new identity and reimagine her future.
The Shoulder Season serves as a guide and an inspiration for those facing a life interrupted.
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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. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:23.9 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.7 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for |
| 0:29.9 | taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.8 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each |
| 0:35.7 | episode here at all home care matters |
| 0:37.6 | something that will hopefully matter to you today we're honored to welcome back a remarkable guest |
| 0:43.4 | and friend author anne campanella the author of the new book the shoulder season welcome anne |
| 0:51.4 | how are you i'm great thanks so much for having me. I'm honored to be here. |
| 0:56.9 | Always a pleasure. Always a pleasure. You know, what brings you here today is your new book, |
| 1:02.4 | The Shoulder Season, and it's really interesting because, you know, you're probably most notably |
| 1:08.6 | known for, you know, being an all's author's author, you know, |
| 1:12.6 | writing, you know, your book motherhood and things. |
| 1:16.6 | But this one doesn't really necessarily tie in specifically to dementia or Alzheimer's. |
| 1:22.6 | Timers. |
| 1:23.3 | Why don't you take a moment for our guests, well, for our viewers and listeners to kind of give us a summary of what the shoulder season is all about? |
| 1:33.0 | Sure. I would say it's about a person who used to be a caregiver is suddenly, um, has an experience where there's a major shoulder |
| 1:48.6 | injury. Um, I trip over my dog and land very hard on my shoulder and, um, suddenly become the care, |
| 2:00.7 | the person who needs care. |
| 2:03.4 | I had lived very physically active, a physically active life on a horse farm, |
| 2:11.9 | riding horses, taking care of them, just being, being the person that people relied on and suddenly everything shifted |
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