At this year’s Upper Cumberland Senior Expo, scheduled for October 20 in Cookeville, attendees will have the opportunity to meet caregiver, author and inspirational speaker Lorrie Davis McDonald, whose experience as a caregiver for her mother-in-law with Alzheimer’s is being shared across the country.
Her book “Blue, Baseball, Virginia –The Journey of an Alzheimer’s Patient and Caregiver–A Journey of Humor, Help and Hope” gives an inside look at the challenges, rewards and sorrows she experienced while caring for her mother-in-law. In the book, Ms. McDonald also shares how her alternative caregiver treatment methods improved her mother-in-law condition by 18 months, a feat unheard of with the disease.
Ms. McDonald will be available at the Upper Cumberland Senior Expo, which will be held in Cookeville’s Hyder-Burks Agriculture Pavilion from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on October 20, 2016. She will be providing tips to consider while caring for a loved one with dementia. These tips include ideas she collected while caring for her mother-in-law, as well as tips she has learned after the release of the book. Additional information and purchase options for the book are available at Amazon.com.
Hosted by the Area Agency on Aging and Disability, the Upper Cumberland Senior Expo is a one-day educational event for seniors and caregivers to network with businesses and services providers. Attendees can take advantage of free health screenings, participate in interactive activities, gather resources, enter to win door prizes and network with businesses from across the 14-county Upper Cumberland region. Optional transportation is arranged for seniors at each county’s senior center. For more information, please contact the AAAD Family Caregiver Manager, Clare Farless, at 931-432-4111 or cfarless@ucdd.org.
