Marianne Sciucco Co-Founder of AlzAuthors & Author of "A Wedding at Blue Hydrangeas"

All Home Care Matters

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Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome back Marianne Sciucco as our guest to the show.

About 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. She is podcast producer and host for Untangling Alzheimer’s and Dementia, an AlzAuthors Podcast.

Marianne has written an award-winning prequel to Blue Hydrangeas called Christmas at Blue Hydrangeas and a second prequel, A Wedding at Blue Hydrangeas. She is the author of Swim Season, a young adult novel based on her 11-years’ experience as a Swim Mom in club, high school, and collegiate swimming.

She has also written several short stories, including Ino's Love, Collection, and Birthday Party.

All of her work is available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback.

When not writing she works as a campus nurse at a community college in New York's Hudson Valley.

About "A Wedding at Blue Hydrangeas":

Five days until the Fourth of July wedding of her dreams! Sara Harmon, the heart and soul behind the charming Blue Hydrangeas bed and breakfast on Cape Cod, is determined to orchestrate the perfect celebration for her son, David, and his bride, Anne. This is the dream wedding she's always envisioned! But, as the big day draws closer, a flurry of mishaps threatens to unravel her meticulously planned reception.

Adding to the delightful chaos is the unexpected stay of the undeniably affable but ever-so-demanding Walter Willoughby. And if that weren't enough, she must contend with the well-meaning but persnickety ladies of the garden club, whose opinions bloom as profusely as her hydrangeas.

While she scrambles to create the perfect wedding celebration, Sara carries a quiet ache in her heart. Can she put aside her own sorrow to fully celebrate David and Anne's happiness? And just how long will the unfortunate but delightful Mr. Willoughby be gracing Blue Hydrangeas with his presence?

You're invited to the wedding of the season, where love, laughter, and a touch of mayhem are all part of the special day at Blue Hydrangeas.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, with
0:06.2	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
0:15.5	Michigan by Top Rated Local.
0:24.0	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'd like to say thank you for taking 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 here at All Home Care care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome back one of our
0:42.1	dear friends, Marianne Shuko. Mary Ann Shuko is the co-founder of all's authors and the author of the
0:49.4	new book, A Wedding at Blue Hydrangeas. Welcome, Marianne Shuko, co-founder of all's authors, a nurse who is also a
0:58.0	writer, as well as the author of a multitude of books, but we're here today to talk about her new book,
1:05.2	A Wedding at Blue Hydrange's. Welcome, Marianne. How are you? I'm good, Lance. Thanks so much for inviting
1:10.4	me back to the show.
1:11.6	Absolutely. Anytime we can help support the work you're doing and the wonderful people at all's authors
1:16.6	who just celebrated their 10th year anniversary, a tremendous milestone, we are always happy to do so.
1:21.6	And you're also a board member at All Whom Care Matters. So it's always an open invitation. So I want to jump right in
1:29.3	because this is actually a prequel book to Blue Hydrangeus. Talk to me about what prompted you to
1:36.8	write this prequel. Well, Blue Hydrange's is Bed and breakfast on Cape Cod.
1:46.1	And the first book in the series is kind of like the last book in the series because that's
1:50.9	what happens to them at the end of their lives, Jack and Sarah Harmon, who run the bed and
1:56.8	breakfast.
1:58.2	They encounter Alzheimer's and Sarah has the diagnosis and Jack is her caregiver.
2:04.2	But I had heard from many, many people who wrote to me over reviews about the book and
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