Mary Crescenzo, Author, Artist, Alzheimer's Advocate, and 2022 Maude Award Recipient
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Alzheimer's advocate and 2022 Maude Award Recipient Mary Crescenzo as a guest to the show.
Mary Crescenzo is a recipient of the 2022 Maude’s Award for Individual Innovation for Dementia Care for her pioneer work in arts engagement with persons with Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Her book, The Planet Alzheimer’s Guide: 8 Ways the Arts Can Transform the Life of Your Loved One and Your Own, is a how-to guide for care partners in the use of the arts to enhance connection and communication with persons living with this disease. Mary is also an award-winning author, playwright, and public speaker. In June, 2022, her play Planet A was staged as a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Mary is co-host with Lori La Bey, host of Alzheimer's Speaks "Dementia & Arts Education panel” radio podcast; and creator and facilitator of "Creative Writing for Caregivers" a safe place to find respite, relaxation and revelation. As speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant for individuals and memory care facilities, her presentations provide comprehensive insight on Care Through the Arts℠ in the use of art to foster creativity, self-expression and joy for both caregiver and persons cared for. She is a member of AlzAuthors, Teaching Artist Guild, Society of International Female Professionals, The Dramatists Guild, and SAG-AFTRA.
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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, |
| 0:10.0 | brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.0 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by top rated local. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.0 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, |
| 0:28.0 | we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, |
| 0:34.0 | and that's why we try and make each episode here at All Home Care Matters, |
| 0:37.0 | something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:40.0 | Today, we are honored to welcome a remarkable guest, Mary Crescenzo, |
| 0:45.0 | author, artist, Alzheimer's advocate, and teacher. |
| 0:49.0 | Mary is the author of the book, The Planet All's Timers. Welcome, Mary. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you. I'm very happy to be here with you. |
| 0:56.0 | Wonderful. So, Mary, let's start with kind of your journey. |
| 1:01.0 | Tell us when this seed started that really sparked an interest for you |
| 1:05.0 | when working with older adults with special needs, |
| 1:08.0 | including Alzheimer's and other dementia's. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, it actually started when I graduated high school. |
| 1:14.0 | I needed a summer job. I was about to study art in college, |
| 1:17.0 | and I saw this ad for an arts and crafts teacher at a nursing home. |
| 1:23.0 | And I just felt instinctively I could do this. |
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