Dan Goerke Author of "Unforgettable, Unbelievable"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Dan Goerke as guest to the show.
About Dan Goerke:
Dan Goerke grew up in northern Indiana and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He has led a life of varied endeavors and accomplishments in competitive swimming, real estate, volunteer work with the Alzheimer's Association, is a Reiki Master, candle maker and author.
Dan suddenly found himself a caregiver to his wife Denise upon her diagnosis at age 56 of Alzheimer's Disease. Uninformed and uneducated about the disease he quickly utilized the resources of the Alzheimer's Association to learn more about the disease progression, caregiving tips and practices, support groups, and elder care attorneys. Two years into his caregiving journey he began communicating telepathically with Denise which aided tremendously in her care.
Dan now offers private sessions to those who want to hear from their loved ones who have gone silent. He has appeared in over 40 different media publications and programs talking about dementia, caregiving, and telepathic communication. He was most recently featured on an episode of "The Telepathy Tapes" podcast.
Dan's first book, "Unforgettable, Unbelievable", was inspired by many friends and family members who encouraged him to write about his caregiving experiences while taking care of his wife Denise.
About "Unforgettable, Unbelievable":
"Unforgettable, Unbelievable: A Journey of Telepathy, Caregiving, and Alzheimer's" follows Dan Goerke as he discovers he can communicate telepathically with his wife Denise, whose Alzheimer's has taken away her ability to speak clearly. This unexpected connection allows Denise to guide him from the "inside," sharing practical tricks and preferences that make day-to-day caregiving more effective and more dignified for her.
Through this lens of telepathy, Dan describes the emotional and physical challenges of caregiving while offering concrete tips for both new and experienced caregivers, blending a realistic view of Alzheimer's with humor and warmth. The book ultimately becomes a portrait of a devoted marriage in the face of decline, showing how love, creativity, and even seemingly mystical experiences can help families navigate the silence that often comes with advanced dementia.
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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. |
| 0:23.8 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.4 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.0 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.7 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:35.9 | here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:43.5 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, I am honored to welcome author and family caregiver Dan Gorky. Dan is the author of Unforgettable, unbelievable. Welcome, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:52.4 | Great. Thank you, Lance. Thank you for having me. Looking forward to this. |
| 0:56.1 | Yes, yes. Our pleasure. We are here in cold, frigid Michigan and here in warm Atlanta, so we're a little jealous. But spring will come eventually here, I'm assuming. At least I hope. |
| 1:07.7 | It's inevitable, isn't it? Yes. You know, Dan, I introduced you as the author of |
| 1:13.1 | Unforgettable, unbelievable. Why don't you take our viewers and listeners through really what |
| 1:19.7 | inspired you to write this book and a little bit about your background? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So, |
| 1:26.4 | really, the story begins back in 2012, and even before that, as you know, with dementia, Alzheimer's, we start noticing symptoms two to four years prior to the diagnosis. Well, it was 2012 when my wife, Denise, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's at age |
| 1:47.0 | 56. And it was a bit of a journey to get to that diagnosis. She was what we started noticing was |
| 1:56.0 | when she was on the road, she was in sales with Xerox at the time and traveling around Atlanta. |
| 2:04.5 | And I would get these calls from her and she would say, Dan, I know where I'm going, but I'm not sure which road I'm on. |
| 2:13.9 | Or it would flip. She would say, I'm on Interstate 285, but I'm not sure where I'm going. |
| 2:20.2 | And it was a little puzzling, but I would help her through and figure out where she would need |
| 2:25.2 | to go and thought really nothing of it other than she was stressed, and that caused the confusion. |
| 2:33.2 | Until it happened over and over and over again. |
| 2:37.3 | And I said, you know what, it's time we need to go get this checked out. |
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