Podcast: Susan Farese, MSN, RN Untangles Poetic Expressions in Dementia Care
Mar 01, 2023 12:01 am
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Poetry can make a difference in a caregiver's journey. Writing poetry can ease your mind, allowing you a means of expression to release your most private thoughts and feelings. Reading the poetry of others can be uplifting and inspirational. This week's podcast guest is not only a poet but a nurse with decades of experience. She has dedicated her work to helping nurses and others use poetry as an outlet for their own personal healing, as it has done for her. Have you used poetry on your caregiving journey? If so, please explain why and how in a return email to be entered in this week's Reader Raffle.
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Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN is the author of Poetic Expressions in Nursing: Sharing the Caring, poems written when she became a nurse poet in the 1990's. Heartbreaking memories of losing her grandmother, Ann, to early onset Alzheimer's when she was a young teen inspired her first poem, Ann's Zest Ends. In this episode, we discuss how witnessing her grandmother's decline as a child profoundly impacted her even 50 years later, why a chance scene in a movie inspired her to start writing poetry, and the value of poetry as expression for nurses and caregivers.
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Christy Byrne Yates, MS is included in this expert panel on "The Sandwich Generation:" people raising kids while caring for aging parents. This situation has its own set of challenges and concerns. Christy is the author of Building a Legacy of Love: Thriving in the Sandwich Generation.
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Here's your chance to tell us what you think, and what you want and need from us. Enter our monthly Reader Raffle by sending a comment on this email or answering this question: Have you used poetry on your dementia journey? Are you a poet or do you simply enjoy reading it? Or both? How has this helped you? Hit reply and give us your response. Two or three lines will do. At the end of the month, we’ll compile all the responses and randomly choose a winner who will receive one of the books featured that month. We look forward to hearing from you!
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