Vicki Tapia, Author of "Somebody Stole My Iron" & Co-Founder of AlzAuthors

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome Author and Co-Founder of AlzAuthors, Vicki Tapia.

Trained as an educator, Vicki Tapia has a proclivity for caring, spending over 30 years working as a Lactation Consultant teaching mothers and babies the art of breastfeeding.

When both her parents were diagnosed with dementia (Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s-related) within a few months of each other, she took on the role of caregiver. As a coping mechanism, Vicki kept a journal detailing the many challenges her family faced along the way. Over time, her diary became a roadmap of sorts, morphing into the award-winning memoir Somebody Stole My Iron: A Family Memoir of Dementia.

Whether fretting over her mother’s false accusations that she was stealing their money to travel or coping with her father’s missing eyebrows, Vicki writes with honesty and humor, offering both encouragement and insight. She shares the many lessons learned on the journey, bringing hope to those whose lives have been intimately affected by dementia, letting them know that they are not alone.

She is also the author of two other award-winning works, both historical fiction: Maggie: A Journey of Love, Loss and Survival based on the life of her intrepid great-grandmother, and her latest release, Harry and Grace: A Dakota Love Story written about her grandparents, who lived on the North Dakota prairie in the early 1900’s.

Vicki is a founder and a director of the all-volunteer nonprofit, AlzAuthors.com. An ever-growing global community of over 350 authors, they share their personal stories, united in an effort to reduce the stigma and silence surrounding dementia.

AlzAuthors also produces an award-winning podcast Untangling Alzheimer’s and Dementia: An AlzAuthors Podcast and most recently unveiled its newest initiative, the Custom Caregiver Collection. This collection brings table-top lending libraries, custom-filled with quality books, to places where people impacted by dementia gather.

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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.
0:26.2	If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for
0:29.4	taking time out to be with us today.
0:31.4	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode
0:35.6	here at All Home home care matters, something
0:37.8	that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome a good friend of the show
0:42.6	and co-founder of all's authors, Vicki Tapia. Vicki is the author of the award-winning book,
0:49.4	Somebody Stole My Iron, a family memoir of dementia. Welcome, Vicki.
0:55.0	Thank you for having me, Lance.
0:56.6	It's great to be.
0:57.8	It's our pleasure.
0:59.0	So Vicki, let's start off with what prompted you to write this award-winning book?
1:05.4	I think taking the journey that I took with my parents gave me insight.
1:12.6	I learned a lot of lessons and I learned stuff, you know, that I thought might be helpful to other people.
1:19.8	And I thought the journal that I was keeping, eventually I began to realize maybe it could be a book.
1:27.1	And if it could help even one person make the journey less painful and help them along the way, then it was worth publishing.
1:37.9	Sure.
1:38.9	And so you took this journal, created it into a book or a memoir, but let's go back to the start of
1:47.7	what prompted you to start that journal to begin with. When did you start realizing that
1:52.2	there was any issues with your parents? It was a very slow process. Actually, my husband
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