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Our soul purpose
Research findings, media stories and articles to inspire new narratives about people living with dementia

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Our mission is to amplify my mother's voice in shaping a more compassionate conversation around brain health[...]

Susan Troyer2025-11-13T14:20:56-06:00November 2nd, 2025|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Alzheimer's, Dementia, Lifestyle digest, Real life pleasures of people living with dementia, Soul care of people living with dementia|0 Comments

Healing the human spirit
The International Writers Center Reminds Us of Our Humanity

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I have often quoted Bill Thomas, MD, geriatrician, in prior blog posts. His words first crossed my desk[...]

Susan Troyer2025-11-13T14:22:11-06:00October 31st, 2025|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: 25 year retrospective view of caregiving, Change for those living with dementia and their caregivers, Geriatrician Dr. Bill Thomas, Healing the human spirit, Historian Dr. Timothy Snyder|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

This moral moment
US Senator Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours in Congress. What was he trying to achieve?

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"Moments like this require us to be more creative or more imaginative, or just more persistent and dogged and determined." [...]

Susan Troyer2025-10-21T02:32:01-05:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: Creating Community|Tags: Cory Booker, Democrats, Donald Trump, US Senate Filibuster, World news|0 Comments

A common denominator
There is nothing inevitable or natural about chronic disease

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In the 1830s, British settlers in New Zealand imported European rabbits for food and sport. [...]

Susan Troyer2025-11-13T14:24:00-06:00March 18th, 2024|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Illness and disease, Medicine, Public health|0 Comments

Transcend traditional barriers
YouTube – Transforming Dementia Care: A New Perspective

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In the evolving landscape of healthcare, particularly in the domain of dementia care, the introduction of the [...]

Susan Troyer2025-11-13T14:24:25-06:00March 6th, 2024|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: Christine Bryden is an advocate for dementia care reform, Continuous learning in dementia care, Holistic approach in dementia care, Person-centered care, The Experiential Model in dementia care|0 Comments

Instruments of peace
Teach Us to Count Our Days by Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper

“So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.” Psalm 90:12 Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper is a minister for older adults at The Riverside Church in New York City. She is the author of the book On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means [...]

Susan Troyer2024-02-20T22:17:28-06:00February 20th, 2024|Categories: Creating Community|0 Comments

A Dementia-Inclusive Event
HEART AND POWER: Utilizing Play for Your Mental Health

Mary Fridley, Coordinator of Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice, recently sent word to us at ABeautifulVoice.org about an upcoming free, global playshop of the Global Play Brigade to share with colleagues and friends, both locally and internationally. Mary writes that she had the privilege of working with the [...]

Susan Troyer2024-02-16T20:26:07-06:00February 14th, 2024|Categories: Creating Community, General|Tags: 2023 research study about frequency of mental health disorders in the world population, Access to traditional mental health care, Dealing with mental health challenges, Dr. Brian Sutton Smith - "Play" researcher, Friends across borders support each other, Healing and joyful impact of playing, Mary Fridley - Coordinator, PLAY for adults, Reimaginging Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice, Rita Ezenwa-Okoro - Executive Director, Solutions to address mental health crisis, The Global Play Brigade (GPB)|0 Comments