About the Author

PAULA SPENCER SCOTT is a former contributing editor of Caring.com and a Met Life Foundation Journalists in Aging fellow, a program of the Gerontological Society of America. Her previous 11 books include Like Mother, Like Daughter, Momfidence (based on her longtime Woman's Day magazine column), and the collaborations The V Book and The Happiest Toddler on the Block. Five close family members have had dementia.