Creativity is how we ensure that diagnosis is a starting point for joy, connection, growth, and new possibilities.
Our soul purpose
Blogs created and curated during the post-ranch years with new stories unfolding about our real life pleasures.
A shortcut to the most recent blog posts
A series of posts to inspire new narratives involving “mindful presence” with the loved one. Click here for a description of the series.
Novelty Explainer - Description of Series
Respected academic researchers conclude that one’s brain health is always affected by the health of the society in which one lives.
Are you flourishing?
A directory listing of authors whose cultures replace our traditional “caregiving” with “care partnerships” while navigating milestones and embracing growth.
A Beautiful Voice Production
The Dementia Justice Report – It’s not about moving on … It’s about moving forward by shedding light on dementia care realities.
Advancing human rights of older people
Welcome
This e-magazine features research findings, media stories and articles about the main themes which enriched our days together following Mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Learn more
Rite de passage
Miss Ethel
As a young school teacher, she was known as “Miss Ethel.” But as her daughter, it was not until being with her in her final years that I learned from a former student how she had preferred to be addressed. Learn more
A Beautiful Voice
Memory Journals
Without journaling, the memory – at this point – would surely be quite “flat” and foggy, and there would certainly have been no thought of an e-magazine. Learn more
Intimate Excerpts…
Riane Eisler, JD
Riane Eisler, JD, is a social scientist, attorney, and author. The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future is considered a classic. Her newest book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, is coauthored with anthropologist, Douglas P. Fry, PhD. Learn more
A Caring Economics
You're invited to read our story.
Find our story here: Big Pharma and the Constant Gardener
New Day!
Let’s be in touch – Newsletter
A Warm Respite – You are invited for coffee and a moment of respite – with mindful and soulful news direct to your inbox. Let’s be in touch. Join us!
Subscribe hereInfluencers making the news
Who are our influencers and Changemakers? Those professionals whose body of work resonated with our experience at the ranch are included here. Each is listed successively in the order in which their work came into our awareness during the course of being together at the ranch.
Learn moreWelcome, partnerism!
“Partnerism,” a word coined by Riane Eisler, JD, is a model for creating a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination.
A new vocabulary for caringSee me – hear me
The messages in our meme series, “See me – hear me,” speak to the monumental need for societal change in our approach to caring for people with dementia.
Transforming thoughts
Video Series
Tuning in to Well-Being
Video Series
Tuning in to Well-Being
Real Life Pleasures
BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
Research findings, media stories, and articles to promote creativity, discovery, and partnership in dementia care.
Speaking of mind, body, spirit
Welcome to the Full Circle Ranch
The beginning of a new year and time to freshen our official welcome! Thus, this updated WELCOME can be found on the blog page to shine some additional light on the version typically found only on the Home Page. WELCOME to... ABeautifulVoice.org A quest for soul in an age of American dementia Honoring care, confronting cruelty, and restoring dignity where it has been stripped away. A Beautiful Voice is an independent [...]
A Matter of Heart
Women’s hearts are different
We’re finally understanding that women’s hearts don’t work the same way as men’s, and that knowledge is saving lives. Research shows that women have unique heart anatomy and risk profiles. They may also experience different symptoms when something’s wrong. Instead of sudden chest pain, heart disease might present as unusual fatigue, nausea, jaw pain, or dizziness… Signs that are often misdiagnosed as stress or dismissed altogether. And when that happens, [...]
A Collective Brain Health Check
Reflections on American Dementia – 2026
In American Dementia – Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society, published in 2021, Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse invite us to look beyond the biology of Alzheimer’s and ask a harder question: What if dementia is not only a medical condition, but also a cultural mirror? What if the stress, fragmentation, inequity, and relentless pace of American life are shaping our brains in ways we have been unwilling to confront? [...]
A Beautiful Voice Production
An International Writers Center Takes it to the Streets: Reimagining Dementia Through Global Stories
ABeautifulVoice.org is delighted to contribute to the global campaign, Reimagining Dementia: Taking It [...]
365 Ways to Say I Care
Way #4: Share a poetry moment
Poetry engages the imagination and emotional heart, offering connection beyond facts or memory. Sharing a poem creates a novel, shared experience that focuses on the beauty of sound, rhythm, and feeling in the present moment. How to do it: Choose a short, uplifting poem. Nature or love poems work beautifully. Read it aloud slowly, with warmth in your voice. Sit together in the quiet that follows. Let the words linger. [...]
Dementia is not a tragedy
Emotional? Yes. Tragedy? No. My mom, Tom Kitwood, and me
Art by Almeta Fridley. What a joy to watch her work! Author: Mary Fridley Faculty, East Side Institute . . . Founder, The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) . . . Coordinator, Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Social Justice [...]
Transforming Thoughts
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
Meet Our Dementia Influencers
That Significant Moment
That significant moment – that moment which quietly resonated with the lifestyle choices made during our interlude at the ranch. That moment which reaffirmed a desire to be together – and continue on. That moment of encounter with a simple idea – in an article, a book, a recording, a teleconference, a phone conversation. That moment which was consciousness-altering. That moment which, quite simply, rocked!
This page is dedicated to those professionals whose body of work resonated with our experience at the ranch. Each is listed successively in the order in which their work came into my awareness during the course of our being together.
Based on the contribution to culture change of these professionals, it is my hope that the lifework of each one may inspire others when most needed. We are all indebted to them for their leadership in transforming the culture of dementia care.
Challenging Notions – Our State of Belief
A Synopsis of Real Life Pleasures
Sense
of Place
Food
for Life
Mindful
Presence
Literary
Companionship
Music
as Medicine
Creating
Community
