Singing To My Mom with Amara Walker
Show: So Your Parents Are Old
Journalist and former CNN anchor Amara Walker opens up about her mother’s Alzheimer’s—how she found support in community, how she talks to her children about their grandmother’s illness, and how she arrived at the difficult decision to move her mother to a nursing home.
Find out more about the Alzheimer’s Association on their website.
The book Vanessa read to her son is called Nana Nana by Nate Bertone and illustrated by James Claridades.
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