Susan Troyer, Author at A Beautiful Voice

Nourishing Body and Soul
Memory in Meals: The Role of Shared Meals in Dementia Care

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There's a certain magic in shared meals. It's when we sit together, eat, laugh, and share stories. For families [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:37:25-05:00September 24th, 2025|Categories: Food For Life|Tags: Families cooking and eating together, Families sharing meals with the person living with dementia, Sharing meals and memories provides comfort, What is soul care?|0 Comments

Gardening Nurtures Well-Being
A Therapeutic Venture Promoting Quality of Life

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Did you know gardening can improve attention span, reduce agitation, and instill a powerful sense of purpose? [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:37:12-05:00September 24th, 2025|Categories: General|Tags: Gardening and dementia care, Gardening and well-being, Physical activity for people living with dementia|0 Comments

Opening Doors to a Richer Life
Nature’s Role in Nurturing People Living With Dementia

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Dementia care often centers around medication and structured indoor activities. We find solace in the familiar [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:38:15-05:00September 22nd, 2025|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Association between dementia and nature, Experiencing joy in dementia care, Nurturing social bonds in dementia care, Soul care enrichment, Sparking memories in dementia care, Stimulating cognition in dementia care, The natural world and well-being|0 Comments

A Physician's Insight
Embracing a multidisciplinary approach that transcends medical interventions

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The unprecedented advent of COVID-19 has revealed glaring disparities in our healthcare system, particularly [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:36:46-05:00September 21st, 2025|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Challenges in long-term care homes, Combatting stigma through the arts, Elevated mortality rates in elderly dementia patients, Holistic support for dementia patients, Impact of COVID-19 on dementia care, Neoliberal-driven structural limitations, Solitary confinement due to isolation, The imperative for systemic change|0 Comments

Caregivers as invisible frontline
Our Stories Still Matter in the Wake of the 2024 Election–Part II

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The Carters’ Legacy and the Work Ahead In Part I, we explored storytelling as a tool to heal division. Now, [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:35:04-05:00September 14th, 2025|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: caregivers' voices, caregiving stories, elder care reparations, institutional neglect, Kate Swaffer’s Dementia Justice Report, oppose Medicaid and Medicare cuts, systemic disregard for women's voices|0 Comments

Silence is complicity
Our Stories Still Matter in the Wake of the 2024 Election–Part I

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The 2024 election is over, but its wounds are fresh. The chasm between us feels wider, the rhetoric harsher, and [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:34:48-05:00September 14th, 2025|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: Dementia community, healing in caregiving, storytelling confronts misogyny, storytelling honors caregiving, storytelling in caregiving, valuing truth and clarity|0 Comments

Evidence-based health insights
Come Together: Be Part of a Global Movement for Health and Sustainability

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I look forward to the Food Revolution Summit every single year. For over a decade, this transformative online event has [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:34:31-05:00September 10th, 2025|Categories: Food For Life|0 Comments

Meaning matters
Pope Francis’ death right after Easter sounds miraculous – but patients and caregivers often work together to delay dying

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Author: Michelle Riba, University of Michigan On the morning of Easter Monday, after his final public address the day prior, [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:34:19-05:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Cancer, Death and Dying, Doctor-patient communication, Doctor-patient relationship, End-of-Life, Meaning, Oncology, Positivity, Psychosocial support, Social determinants of health, Terminal illness|0 Comments

Music transcending division
How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences

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Brandi Carlile & Joni Mitchell at the Newport Folk Festival in 2022 - WFUV Public Radio/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 By Marc [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:33:53-05:00April 21st, 2025|Categories: Music as Medicine|Tags: Benefits of musical collaboration, Intergenerational music-making|0 Comments

May truth be told!
Medicaid Advocates Say Critics Use Loaded Terms To Gain Edge in Congressional Debate

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We put “loved ones” in nursing homes, underfund them as a society, and hope to never need one ourselves. – [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:32:19-05:00April 10th, 2025|Categories: A Sense of Place|0 Comments

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