No GPS on Memory Lane
No GPS on Memory Lane is where caregivers, family members, and accidental crisis managers come to feel seen. Host Valerie Wilde blends storytelling, expert advice, and laugh-or-cry moments from the front lines of dementia and elder care. It’s part support group, part survival guide, and part honest conversation about what it really means to care for someone who's forgetting the way.
Episodes
Before the diagnosis, there were warning signs—only we didn’t know they were warnings yet.
In this episode, I revisit the slow unraveling that began long before my mom’s official diagnosis. From forgetting how to unlock her phone to abandoning frozen dinners and doctor follow-ups, her world was quietly changing—and I was already stepping into the caregiver role without realizing it.
If you’ve ever looked back and though...
Before the diagnosis, before the confusion, before the daily calls from the nursing home—there was just me and my mom.
In this episode, I take you back to the before. To the childhood memories of buffet lunches, breakroom nail polish experiments, and blue retail vests three sizes too big. You'll meet my mom not as a patient, but as the strong, funny, stubborn woman who raised me—through foot surgeries, rheumatoid ...
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