Mom’s Legacy of Love: Kelly and Teresa’s Alzheimer’s Story

By Stephanie Foster, Alzheimer’s Association staff Family is everything Kelly Hovland, a financial advisor with Edward Jones® in Portland, loved growing up in a large family in the Midwest. When she married her wife, Teresa Schmidt, she joined an even larger family. In fact, it was Teresa’s proclivity toward family that first caught Kelly’s eye. Locally, Kelly and Teresa are raising three children in the … Continue reading Mom’s Legacy of Love: Kelly and Teresa’s Alzheimer’s Story

How Mike’s Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Stole the Love of My Life

Alzheimer’s is the only disease I know of where, when it enters your life, you are completely on your own. And we felt very alone when we received the news that Mike had been diagnosed in April of 2014. Continue reading How Mike’s Alzheimer’s Diagnosis Stole the Love of My Life