Conversations Through Alzheimer's
In 2019, we slowly started to watch our mom, Rose Marti, lose cognitive function and our family didn't have answers for years. Her PCP told us she was "just getting old." We didn't accept that, and we kept fighting. In 2025, she was finally diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at 61.
This podcast is what comes next.
Conversations Through Alzheimer's follows a real family in real time. The fear, the love, the logistics, and the moments nobody warns you about. Hosted by sisters Amber Marti and Felicia Wood, this is an honest and authentic look at what it actually means to walk through this together.
This podcast is also meant to be a resource because there's a lot of information out there about Alzheimer's and almost none of it is in one place. Each episode weaves our family's lived experience with practical education: the medications that have been tried, functional medicine support, the legal forms you should complete while your loved one is still here mentally, how to build the right medical team, what the Alzheimer's Association can do for you, and how to find your people as a caregiver.
If your family is in this too — or if you're just starting to wonder — this is for you.
New episodes every Monday. Season 1 launches June 1, 2026.
Episodes
18 episodes
A Year into Alzheimer’s diagnosis: New Bloodtests, What We've Learned, and More with Rose
This is our season one finale, recorded on our mom Rosemary's birthday, and it holds three things: what's changed in Alzheimer's diagnosis and research over the last year and a half, an honest look at where we actually are now compared to where...
Questions Answered on Alzheimer’s Caregiving, Processing in RealTime, and Grief
This episode is a Q&A where we answer some of the most common questions we’ve gotten from support groups, forums, and our DMs about caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s.We cover the guilt that comes with getting frustrated or shor...
Noticing Alzheimer’s Cognitive Fatigue in Real Time During Summer Trip | Caregiver Update
This is a real-time early-onset Alzheimer’s update from our mom Rosemary’s two-week visit to see us in New York this summer, documenting what we noticed as the trip went on and what we learned about how much is too much right now.We cove...
The Spouse’s Side: Our Dad on Caring for Our Mom Through Alzheimer’s Earlier Stages
This episode is a conversation with our dad, Lyle, about his experience as the spouse and primary caregiver for our mom Rosemary since her early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis.We talk through what it was like for him in the years before her...
You’re Not Alone: Alzheimer’s Caregiver Resources We Wish We’d Known About Sooner
This episode is about the caregiver resources and support systems we wish we'd known about sooner in our mom's Alzheimer's journey.We start with a quick check-in about our mom going to bingo with friends for the first time since her dia...
Will We Get Alzheimer’s Too? What Our Mom’s Diagnosis Taught Us About Our Own Brains
This episode is about a question we hadn’t tackled yet on this podcast but have thought about every day since our ’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis: what does this mean for our own risk of getting the disease.Today we share more about what we lea...
The Hidden Cost of Stress in Alzheimer’s Care
This episode is about the connection between stress and Alzheimer’s disease progression, and the specific ways we’ve changed how we communicate with our mom Rosemary to help lower her stress.We start with a short update on the small logi...
Lumbar Punctures, Trial Data, and the Infusion Decision | Caregiver Update
This is a real-time update on our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey from April 2026. We had been going through months of testing and workups to understanding if our mom would be a candidate for anti-amyloid infusion therapies — lec...
Functional Medicine in Our Mom's Alzheimer's Care: Hearing From Rose
This episode is about adding functional medicine to our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's care team, and how it's helped support her over the last year.We start with a quick update on where things stand outside of the medical side —...
You're Allowed to Find New Doctors: Building Mom's Medical Team
This is the practical, unglamorous side of caregiving: wait lists, referrals, insurance chats, second opinions, and learning that you're allowed to ask for better. If you're just starting to build a care team for someone you love, this episode ...
The In-Between: Watching Alzheimer's Progress in Real Time | Caregiver Update
This is a real-time update from April 2026, nearly a year into our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey. And honestly, the weeks leading up to April 2026 is a lot! We share some of the specific moments that stopped us in ...
Alzheimer’s Caregiving: How to Divide Responsibilities and Build a Care Team
When someone you love is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it hits fast. In this episode, two sisters document the real mechanics of building and managing a care team for their mom, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in June 2025.T...
Dementia vs. Alzheimer's: Early Onset, Early Stage, and What We Had to Unlearn
In this episode, we start to unpack all the things we had to learn and unlearn about Alzheimers. In this episode we'll talk about the differences between Alzheimer's and dementia, and the differences between being in the early stages vers...
Getting the Alzheimer's Diagnosis: The Day We Had a Name for It (Part 3)
This is Part 3 of our three part series on getting to our mom Rose's Alzheimer's diagnosis.We take you from the beginning of April through to June 2025, to the day we got the blood test results that confirmed what we had feared. Along th...
The Week Everything Changed: Early Signs of Alzheimer's (Part 2)
In Part 1, we walked you through the early signs we noticed over years of visits and trips. In Part 2, we share the story of the one week that changed everything.It was the end of March 2025. Felicia and Dave were heading to Hawaii, and ...
Before We Had a Name for It: Our Mom's Early Alzheimer's Signs (Part 1)
In this episode, we take you back to before there was a diagnosis, before there was even a name for what was happening to our mom. We walk through the early signs we noticed over a series of visits, and how many of the signs we missed because t...
Meet Rose: Our Mother, Whose Alzheimer's Diagnosis Is Why We're Sharing Our Story
We are sisters Amber and Felicia, and we've watched our mom Rose step into one of the hardest chapters a family can face: an Alzheimer's diagnosis, in real time. Instead of processing it privately, we're choosing to share it. Every lesson learn...
