Author of "The Silver Lining of Alzheimer's" Eliezer Sobel
All Home Care Matters
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome esteemed author Eliezer Sobel as guest to the show.
About Eliezer Sobel:
Eliezer is the author of The Silver Lining of Alzheimer's: One Son's Journey Into the Mystery, as well as two picture books for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, Blue Sky, White Clouds: A Book for Memory-Challenged Adults, and L'Chaim! Pictures to Evoke Memories of Jewish Life. He has also published Minyan: Ten Jewish Men in a World That is Heartbroken, selected by National Book Award winner John Casey as the winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, among 400 entries.
Also, The 99th Monkey: A Spiritual Journalist's Misadventures with Gurus, Messiahs, Sex, Psychedelics and Other Consciousness-Raising Experiments; Wild Heart Dancing: A One-Day Personal Quest to Liberate the Artist & Lover Within; The Dark Light of the Soul/Encounters with Gabrielle Roth; an e-book titled Why I Am Not Enlightened, and he blogs for PsychologyToday.com.
Eliezer has also led creativity workshops and silent meditation retreats around the U.S.; he is a certified teacher of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms® conscious movement practice; has served as a hospital chaplain; was the publisher of two magazines, The New Sun and the Wild Heart Journal; served as Music Director for several children's theater companies on both coasts, and taught music in two alternative high schools. Also an amateur painter, he and Shari reside in Red Bank, New Jersey with their two cats, Shlomo and Nudnick.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. 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. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.4 | time out to be with us. |
| 0:32.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:36.1 | here at all home care matters, |
| 0:37.8 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome Eliasur Sobel. |
| 0:43.6 | He is the author of The Silver Lining of Alzheimer's and Blue Sky White Clouds. Welcome, Eliasor. How are you |
| 0:51.2 | today? I'm good. Thank you, Lance. I appreciate you having me on. |
| 0:55.0 | It's our pleasure. You know, we were recently introduced to you, and we had a wonderful |
| 0:59.8 | discussion a few weeks ago. I think it was right before we left for our DC trip, and you |
| 1:06.0 | were kind enough to send us both copies of your books, both very different, but both very beneficial to families |
| 1:12.6 | with loved ones with dementia. The one is really talking about your experience with your mother, |
| 1:18.2 | but then also blue sky, white clouds is, I think, a very simple book, but very effective |
| 1:25.7 | because it goes through pictures and, you know, it's good |
| 1:28.3 | prompting for memory and stimulation. You know, I want to start, though, with the silver |
| 1:33.7 | lining of Alzheimer's, your latest book. What really prompted you to decide you wanted to write |
| 1:39.2 | that? I mean, it was such a powerful time of my life. I spent at least six or more, well, I spent a lot of years. My father, my mother had Alzheimer's for 20 years. My father was her at-home caregiver until he was 90. And that was in my childhood home. They were married almost 70 years when my father passed. |
| 2:03.0 | So I was consulting with him daily on the phone, making Skype calls every day to him and my mother. |
| 2:10.0 | But there came a point where my dad, at 90, fell down the stairs, landed on his head and had a |
| 2:16.3 | traumatic brain injury. |
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