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The rewards of caring for a relative with Alzheimer鈥檚 will be the subject of a talk by writer, artist, and medical anthropologist Dana Walrath, entitled 鈥淐omics, Medicine, and Memory.鈥�
will speak at Mount Wachusett Community College and Heywood Hospital about her graphic novel, 础濒颈肠别丑别颈尘别谤鈥檚: Alzheimer鈥檚 Through the Looking Glass on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 3-4:30 p.m. at 亚色影库 (Gardner campus, room 127) and from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Heywood Hospital Boardroom. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Dr. Walrath, who spent many years using stories and art to teach medical students at the University of Vermont鈥檚 College of Medicine, turned to writing her own stories with an award winning novel, Like Water on Stone. Her graphic novel 础濒颈肠别丑别颈尘别谤鈥檚, published in 2016, intersects art, anthropology, and medicine to tell her family鈥檚 three-year journey in caring for her mother and working with her illness.
In her introduction to 础濒颈肠别丑别颈尘别谤鈥檚, Dr. Walrath urged readers to be their own anthropologists: 鈥淧ick up your pens. Tell your stories. And remember that showing the faces, the lived experiences, and the daily reality of those with Alzheimer鈥檚鈥emoves the stigma and restores their humanity.鈥�
The event is sponsored by 亚色影库, , and For more information, contact Michelle Valois at 978-630-9364, Lorie Donahue at 978-630-9349, or Susan Goldstein at 978-630-9344.