by Hélène Stelian | Jan 8, 2020 | Expert Interviews
You recently published Raising an Aging Parent: Guidelines for Families in the Second Half of Life. What need did you see that this book could address? I saw the need to capture all the important conversations that can take place to add to our quality of life, if we,...
by Hélène Stelian | Jul 23, 2019 | Expert Interviews
You are a psychiatrist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a research focus on dementia, public health policy, end of life care, and bioethics education. What led you to write your new book, Dementia Reimagined? My mother and grandmother both had...
by Hélène Stelian | Jul 9, 2019 | Expert Interviews
You have spent over a decade supporting caregivers and elders through your writing. How did you come to find this purpose? I spent nearly twenty years caring for a total of seven elders. This was during a time when family caregivers were hardly acknowledged at all and...
by Hélène Stelian | Jan 9, 2019 | Expert Interviews
Rare Bird Books recently published your book, Love in the Time of Chronic Illness: How to Fight the Sickness―Not Each Other. What led you to write this book? My co-author, Roanne Weisman, and I wrote Love in the Time of Chronic Illness because we were both the ill...
by Hélène Stelian | Apr 9, 2018 | Next Act for Women
Tell us a little about your background. I was born in the US and was about to begin first grade when my family moved to Germany a few years following WW II. Under the Marshall Plan (The European Recovery Program), military families were being sent overseas and an...