This issue is a love letter from me, Lucinda Koza, I-Ally’s Founder & CEO, to my team, my advisors, mentors, partners, and every person who has signed up for the platform or subscribed to the newsletter or followed us on social media. To say a lot has happened both within…

Brain fog has been “thrust into the limelight” in the wake of millions of cases of COVID-19 that have left long-term effects that include memory loss, inability to focus, and lack of mental clarity. …

The terms Medicaid and Medicare sound similar, and indeed these two assistance programs have features in common; they both cover costs of healthcare for older adults. But they are quite different when it comes to eligibility and how the programs work. Medicare is generally available to US citizens and permanent residents in every state at the age of 65. …

When you first become a caregiver, you are probably in fight-or-flight mode for about 2 years. You don’t have an ounce of extra energy to give anything: not even yourself. You’re not even in survival mode: you’re in THEIR SURVIVAL MODE. Therefore, it’s a given that you will withdraw. You…

I admit, for all that I have written and spoken about my father’s Parkinson’s Disease and vascular dementia, as well as my maternal grandmother’s Alzheimer’s Disease; for how many times I have called attention to the stigma surrounding any form of cognitive decline (like mental illness, society doesn’t know hot to…

When you have someone in your family or in your life who has an addiction, it can seem commonplace. If you grow up in a home in which a parent often needs care, almost like a child, when they come home drunk and you have to clean them up and…

When I became Power of Attorney for my father, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was agreeing to. Actually, I had no idea. The paperwork was signed in his hospital room amidst an air of desperation. I knew one thing: if decisions needed to be made, I had to make…