Zita Christian Writer, Podcaster, and Host of "My Spouse Has Dementia"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Zita Christian as guest to the show.
About Zita Christian:
Zita Christian is a storyteller who believes in the power of love. She is the author of three historical romance novels, the co-writer of a one-woman play, a collaborator on a self-help book about grieving, and host and producer of two podcasts and a YouTube show for writers. In her work as a wedding officiant, she wrote more than 150 love stories.
Retired now, Zita is working on her dementia podcast and on a memoir about her caregiving journey.
About "My Spouse Has Dementia":
My Spouse Has Dementia is a free monthly podcast that uses personal stories, occasional interviews, and simple rituals to support dementia caregiving spouses.
In 2025, My Spouse Has Dementia was short-listed for the International Women's Podcast Awards. Entries were received from notable organizations such as CNN, ABC, BBC, and NPR, as well as from solo podcasters (those with no crew).
According to Everyone Media, creators of the award, the nearly 700 entries came from 35 countries. Of those entries, 13% of the short-listed podcasts came from a solo creator like Zita Christian.
Transcript
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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 time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.6 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:43.2 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, I am very honored to welcome a remarkable guest and dear friend, Zeta Christian. Zeta is a writer and the host of My Spouse Has Dementia |
| 0:51.3 | podcast. Welcome, Zita. How are you? I'm fine, Lance. Thank you so much for asking me to be on your show. I greatly appreciate it. I hope you're doing well, too. Yes, yes. It's a rainy day in Michigan, but it's spring. Baseball season started, so I don't have too much to complain about. I understand. I agree. Yes. |
| 1:11.2 | And likewise, you know, originally I was on your podcast. |
| 1:16.3 | My spouse has dementia talking a little bit about my caregiving journey as well as, you know, our recent acquisition of all's authors. |
| 1:23.0 | And you were just such a beautiful and gracious host. |
| 1:26.1 | And we wanted to get you on all home care matters to share a little bit about your story. |
| 1:30.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:31.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:32.1 | Our pleasure. |
| 1:33.6 | So, Zeta, first, I want to start off right off the bat. |
| 1:36.2 | I introduced you as the host of my spouse has dementia. |
| 1:41.0 | Explain to our viewers and listeners really the premise and the story with that podcast. |
| 1:47.6 | Well, odd as it might sound, I didn't want to create that podcast. |
| 1:56.1 | I had another podcast called Ritual Recipes, and it focused on my work as a wedding |
| 2:04.0 | officiant and a life cycle celebrant, and I shared rituals for weddings and funerals and |
| 2:08.6 | baby blessings and children leaving home and starting businesses and all sorts of life |
| 2:13.3 | passages, large and small. |
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