AlzWell
http://www.alzwell.com/
1st Place - December 2001
Susan Grossman was caregiver to her mother-in-law, and this award-
winning site grew out of that experience. Alzwell includes many
interactive features, such as "The Anger Wall", and is the home of
the Caregiver Webring. Alzwell is packed full of information and
opportunities for others to share their stories. Susan's site has
been highly reviewed and received several prestigious awards, even
appearing in Yahoo Internet Life's Touched by the Net. After her
mother-in-law died, Susan continued regularly updating her site and
keeps people informed about updates through her Keepin' Up with
ALZwell newsletter. More recently the site has also joined with
ElderCare Online, displaying an even more professional look and is
providing more services to caregivers.

Mary's Place
http://www.angelfire.com/ok4/mari5113/index.html
2nd Place - December 2001
Mary Lockhart has early-onset Alzheimer's. Before she was diagnosed,
she had managed a licensed day care for infants for fifteen years.
She misses the babies she cared for, but she has three little dogs
which she enjoys, as well as having an acquarium, and feeding birds
and squirrels. She is doing a wonderful job telling her story on her
home page, Mary's Place, where she shares her daily journal, family
photos, memories from her childhood, links to other sites, and a
chats for other patients like herself. Mary says "This is a very
lonely disease. If I can help one person with my page it will all be
worth it."

Alzheimer's Outreach
http://www.zarcrom.com/users/alzheimers/
3rd Place - December 2001
A totally amazing site, one that inspires awe and wonder every time
we visit, is Marsha Penington's (aka Tay, or Taylor Austin)
Alzheimer's Outreach. Her informational directories on Alzheimer's,
other dementias, and caregiving issues includes around 250 full-text
documents. There is a poetry gallery full of poetry by Steven
Stoker, Jerry Ham, Brenda Race, and Dorothy Womack, and Marsha has
provided Web space for the various works of other caregivers and
Alzheimer's patients throughout her site. At the Alzheimer's
Outreach site, family caregivers and patients alike have shared their
photos, memories, memorials, thoughts, and the list goes on and on.
There is so much this site offers, it's difficult to even begin to
describe it all. Marsha's own story of her mother's Alzheimer's,
along with beautifully designed backgrounds and graphics by Marsha
herself, add a personal touch and intensify the sense of awe we feel
as we visit this wonderful site. Futhermore, Alzheimer's Outreach is
also the large and very active local community service/support group
that is coordinated by Marsha in the area where she lives. Locally
through this group and around the world via the Internet, Marsha's
Alzheimer's Outreach is for so many an excellent source of
information and support at all stages of the Alzheimer's/caregiving
journey.

Caregiver's Haven
http://www.nhisgarden.com/caregivers/entrance.html
4th Place - December 2001
Nancy Walker is nurse who has 22 years of experience with caring for
the elderly and dementia patients. She has taken on Alzheimer's as her
cause and as well as providing information about AD, she has created
a true haven for weary caregivers and early-onset patients alike.
Her site features a Poetry Niche, which includes the poems of Dorothy
Womack, Brenda Race, Carolyn Haynali, Tim Brennan and others, and a
Gallery which displays paintings by Dorothy Womack's mother and some
selections from the Brace Alzheimer's Research Art Gallery. Nancy's
wish for us as we visit her site is "To sit back and find a relaxing
site filled with love, peace and maybe a laugh or too", and she
is doing a wonderful job at reaching that goal. Despite her former
server's losing her Web site files last year, Nancy has
restored her site and continued to develop it even, amazing us with
all she accomplishes in addition to her busy career.

Innerquest
http://www.geocities.com/womack47/innerquest.html
Site of the Moment - December 2001
Dorothy Womack has written a number of articles, many of which have
been published in Today's Caregiver Magazine, about coping with
caregiver guilt, depression, grief, and other issues. These are
collected here at her "Innerquest" site, and as with her
book "Passage into Paradise", her poetry and other writings,
Dorothy touches our hearts and helps us to see the caregiving
experience and afterwards through the wisdom of one who has been
there, and as her strong faith shines through, we even begin to see
it all through the eyes of God.

Brenda

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Brenda Parris Sibley
A Year to Remember... http://www.zarcrom.com/users/yeartorem/
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