Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer's Awareness Program

Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer's Disease Picture Book

Seven-year-old Mackenzie has always depended on her Gran for fun, help, love and understanding. She learns from her parents that her Gran has Alzheimer’s disease and may start acting strange. Now the tables are turned and Mackenzie has to figure out how to help her Gran.

The story brings to awareness many aspects of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia such as memory loss, anger, frustration and fear in terms children can understand. A free download of the Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer's Disease Story Song included with the book purchase makes learning about the disease fun. Also included is a special discount code to receive 50% off the digital, video-based Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer’s Awareness Program that suggests activities from diagnosis through the severe stage.

There are several ways you can use the book as a tool to introduce your child to Alzheimer’s disease. 

• You can sit together and read the book. It is written using words that a very young child can understand. 
• You can download the song onto your favorite listening device and follow along with the book as you all listen to the song.
• You can have fun singing along as you follow along in the book. 
• Encourage your children to draw monsters on the blank pages in the back of the book to help them cope with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s, that thonky disease.
    
  The book is available on Amazon in either ebook or paperback form.

The Caregiver's Advocate: A Complete Guide to Support and Resources is a collaborative book. Each chapter includes a story from the author's caregiving experience followed by a strategy for caregiving.  The book covers all aspects of caregiving that overlap for several types of diagnoses. A QR code is provided in the end for the list of resources in the Resources Section. Brenda contributed Chapter 10: The Alzheimer's Conversation: Why and How to Include Children