In 2019, we slowly started to watch our mom, Rose Marti, lose cognitive function and our family didn't have answers for years. Her PCP told us she was "just getting old." We didn't accept that, and we kept fighting. In 2025, she was finally diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at 61.
This podcast is what comes next.
Conversations Through Alzheimer's follows a real family in real time. The fear, the love, the logistics, and the moments nobody warns you about. Hosted by sisters Amber Marti and Felicia Wood, this is an honest and authentic look at what it actually means to walk through this together.
This podcast is also meant to be a resource because there's a lot of information out there about Alzheimer's and almost none of it is in one place. Each episode weaves our family's lived experience with practical education: the medications that have been tried, functional medicine support, the legal forms you should complete while your loved one is still here mentally, how to build the right medical team, what the Alzheimer's Association can do for you, and how to find your people as a caregiver.
If your family is in this too — or if you're just starting to wonder — this is for you.
New episodes every Monday. Season 1 launches June 1, 2026.
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Amber Marti and Felicia Wood
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health & fitness · health & fitness · society & culture
A Year into Alzheimer’s diagnosis: New Bloodtests, What We've Learned, and More with Rose
Send us Fan Mail This is our season one finale, recorded on our mom Rosemary's birthday, and it holds three things: what's changed in Alzheimer's diagnosis and research over the last year and a half, an honest look at where we actually are now compared to where we thought we'd be, and a conversation with our mom herself to close out the season. We start with the biggest shift in diagnosis since our mom's own P-tau217 test: several new FDA-cleared blood tests have come out in just the past yea...
7 Sept 2026
Questions Answered on Alzheimer’s Caregiving, Processing in RealTime, and Grief
Send us Fan Mail This episode is a Q&A where we answer some of the most common questions we’ve gotten from support groups, forums, and our DMs about caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s. We cover the guilt that comes with getting frustrated or short with a loved one even when you know it’s the disease, how to know when it’s time to push for a cognitive evaluation instead of explaining symptoms away, and why Alzheimer’s rarely progresses in a straight line, plateaus can last a while and...
31 Aug 2026
Noticing Alzheimer’s Cognitive Fatigue in Real Time During Summer Trip | Caregiver Update
Send us Fan Mail This is a real-time early-onset Alzheimer’s update from our mom Rosemary’s two-week visit to see us in New York this summer, documenting what we noticed as the trip went on and what we learned about how much is too much right now. We cover the travel logistics first to help support her: using a gate pass and the Sunflower program for hidden disabilities. Then we walk through the trip day by day: how good she seemed in the first few days, a pattern we started to notice where s...
24 Aug 2026
The Spouse’s Side: Our Dad on Caring for Our Mom Through Alzheimer’s Earlier Stages
Send us Fan Mail This episode is a conversation with our dad, Lyle, about his experience as the spouse and primary caregiver for our mom Rosemary since her early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis. We talk through what it was like for him in the years before her diagnosis, including a career change and job loss in 2019 that he now recognizes as an early sign, and the long process of considering anxiety, depression, and ADHD before Alzheimer’s was ever on the table. He also talks about deciding to re...
17 Aug 2026
You’re Not Alone: Alzheimer’s Caregiver Resources We Wish We’d Known About Sooner
Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the caregiver resources and support systems we wish we'd known about sooner in our mom's Alzheimer's journey. We start with a quick check-in about our mom going to bingo with friends for the first time since her diagnosis, and the different instincts Amber and Felicia had about whether that was a good idea, which opens into a broader conversation about staying connected with someone who has Alzheimer's, including a TikTok tip on why "want to get dinner?...
10 Aug 2026
Will We Get Alzheimer’s Too? What Our Mom’s Diagnosis Taught Us About Our Own Brains
Send us Fan Mail This episode is about a question we hadn’t tackled yet on this podcast but have thought about every day since our ’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis: what does this mean for our own risk of getting the disease. Today we share more about what we learned regarding inherited risk of Alzheimer’s disease. More commonly genetics is just one contributing factor among many. We use the APOE2, APOE3, and APOE4 gene variants (our mom is A3/A3, or “neutral risk”) and we found a garden analogy — ge...
3 Aug 2026
The Hidden Cost of Stress in Alzheimer’s Care
Send us Fan Mail This episode is about the connection between stress and Alzheimer’s disease progression, and the specific ways we’ve changed how we communicate with our mom Rosemary to help lower her stress. We start with a short update on the small logistical things that came up this week — mom scheduling her own doctor’s appointment and using shared medical portal access so she doesn’t have to re-explain results, and a reset of our system for managing her supplement refills across four peo...
27 Jul 2026
Lumbar Punctures, Trial Data, and the Infusion Decision | Caregiver Update
Send us Fan Mail This is a real-time update on our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey from April 2026. We had been going through months of testing and workups to understanding if our mom would be a candidate for anti-amyloid infusion therapies — lecanemab and donanemab. We walk through the full workup: the APOE genetic testing, the lumbar puncture required to confirm eligibility, and the genetic counseling to rule out inherited mutations tied to early onset Alzheimer's. We also ge...
20 Jul 2026
Functional Medicine in Our Mom's Alzheimer's Care: Hearing From Rose
Send us Fan Mail This episode is about adding functional medicine to our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's care team, and how it's helped support her over the last year. We start with a quick update on where things stand outside of the medical side — her disability application is still pending after ten months on the Compassionate Allowances list, we're working on getting her back into memory care therapy through insurance, and we've started filling out power of attorney and other estate...
13 Jul 2026
Episode 8
Send us Fan Mail TBD Support the show Thanks for walking this journey with us. Conversations Through Alzheimer's is hosted by sisters Amber and Felicia, and new episodes drop every Monday through September 2026. If this show has resonated with you, share it with someone who needs it and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts. Follow along on our socials: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@conversationsthroughalz YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThroughALZSupport the ...
6 Jul 2026
The In-Between: Watching Alzheimer's Progress in Real Time | Caregiver Update
Send us Fan Mail This is a real-time update from April 2026, nearly a year into our mom Rosemary's early onset Alzheimer's journey. And honestly, the weeks leading up to April 2026 is a lot! We share some of the specific moments that stopped us in our tracks lately. A medical video she watched with us, cried through, and had absolutely no memory of two weeks later. A store name she's known her whole life that suddenly meant nothing to her. Getting turned around in a parking lot and fee...
29 Jun 2026
Alzheimer’s Caregiving: How to Divide Responsibilities and Build a Care Team
Send us Fan Mail When someone you love is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, it hits fast. In this episode, two sisters document the real mechanics of building and managing a care team for their mom, who was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in June 2025. This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s an honest walkthrough of what they’ve tried, what’s broken, and what’s actually working, including the Skylight calendar system that gave their whole care team shared visibility, the medication tracking spread...
22 Jun 2026
Dementia vs. Alzheimer's: Early Onset, Early Stage, and What We Had to Unlearn
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we start to unpack all the things we had to learn and unlearn about Alzheimers. In this episode we'll talk about the differences between Alzheimer's and dementia, and the differences between being in the early stages versus having early onset Alzheimer's. We also share where things stand with our mom this week- because it was a hard week. The more you know, the more empowered you are to care for your loved one. If you're in the thick of a new diagnosis ...
15 Jun 2026
Getting the Alzheimer's Diagnosis: The Day We Had a Name for It (Part 3)
Send us Fan Mail This is Part 3 of our three part series on getting to our mom Rose's Alzheimer's diagnosis. We take you from the beginning of April through to June 2025, to the day we got the blood test results that confirmed what we had feared. Along the way we walk through the neuropsych evaluation process, what moderate cognitive impairment actually means, the MRI results that made our parents think everything was fine, and the exhausting back and forth of trying to get everyone to see wh...
8 Jun 2026
The Week Everything Changed: Early Signs of Alzheimer's (Part 2)
Send us Fan Mail In Part 1, we walked you through the early signs we noticed over years of visits and trips. In Part 2, we share the story of the one week that changed everything. It was the end of March 2025. Felicia and Dave were heading to Hawaii, and our mom flew to Orlando to meet Amber before they both traveled up to Plattsburgh to watch Oliver for the week. What we thought would be a manageable week of grandma helping with a nine month old turned into the moment we could no longer expl...
1 Jun 2026
Meet Rose: Our Mother, Whose Alzheimer's Diagnosis Is Why We're Sharing Our Story
Send us Fan Mail We are sisters Amber and Felicia, and we've watched our mom Rose step into one of the hardest chapters a family can face: an Alzheimer's diagnosis, in real time. Instead of processing it privately, we're choosing to share it. Every lesson learned, every milestone, the hard conversations, and the moments somewhere between grief and grace. In this first episode, we introduce ourselves, share how we got here, and explain why this story felt too important to keep quiet. But most ...
1 Jun 2026
Before We Had a Name for It: Our Mom's Early Alzheimer's Signs (Part 1)
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we take you back to before there was a diagnosis, before there was even a name for what was happening to our mom. We walk through the early signs we noticed over a series of visits, and how many of the signs we missed because they were easy to explain away. From getting lost in a hospital parking lot, to wandering a hotel hallway in Washington DC, to struggling with a video game in Orlando, to losing her job and never quite finding her way back- this ep...
15 Apr 2026
Introducing Conversations Through Alzheimer's
Send us Fan Mail "We're not doctors. We're daughters." Amber Marti and Felicia Wood are sisters navigating their mother Rose's early-onset and early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis in real time and they're bringing you along for the journey. Conversations Through Alzheimer's is a real-time documentary about what it actually looks like when Alzheimer's enters a family: the questions, the confusion, the hard decisions, the small victories, and the love that holds it all together. Whether you're a ...
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