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Leeza’s Place is a program of The Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, which Leeza founded after her mother’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease.
I promised my mother I would tell her story and make it count. I began to fulfill that promise by opening what we call Leeza’s Place, our resource centers which serve as an oasis for [...]
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The art of caregiving often has guilt as its constant companion. At Leeza’s Place we give caregivers permission to feel whatever they are experiencing and then we give them a strategy, an approach, a shoulder to cry on, a heart to lean on and the faith that they will make it through. We know that [...]
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I wish I had known what a marathon this is…battling Alzheimer’s disease is an endurance race, the likes of which I could have never imagined. Although people tried to tell me, I suppose I couldn’t quite appreciate at the time how valuable everyday is.
