Dr. Nicole Rochester: Your GPS Doc

Dr. Nicole Rochester has known she wanted to be a pediatrician since she was about eight years old.  A Washington, DC native whose dad was a Redskins season ticket holder, Dr. Rochester has advocated for her own family members and given medical care to children in the...

The Wide Circumference of Love

Best-selling author Marita Golden talks about her novel “The Wide Circumference of Love,” in which the real-world impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the African-American community is woven into a fictionalized story.  Marita tells us how writing the novel turned her...

Anything For That Smile

Loretta Veney’s greatest fear is that her mother will outlive her money.  Her great grandmother lived to age 107 and her grandmother to age 98.  Neither had dementia.  But Loretta’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 77.  In today’s show, Loretta...

Episode 120: The Wide Circumference Of Love

Writing “The Wide Circumference of Love” turned best-selling author Marita Golden into an Alzheimer’s activist.  In today’s show she tells us why and about the process of writing her novel, in which the real world impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the African-American...