Caroline Court and her mother, the inspiration for Cate’s mother, in Mum, Alzheimer’s and Me: Staying Alive. — Caroline Court and her mother, the inspiration for Cate’s mother, in *Mum, Alzheimer’s and Me: Staying Alive.*

Caroline Court is a retired journalism/English teacher and freelance writer who turned her attention to elder advocacy when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Her first book Mum Alzheimer’s and Me: Staying Alive grew out of a journal record of Court’s intervention in her mother’s early dementia, through custodial care at home, then advocacy as her mother entered institutional care. Court’s book challenges common assumptions about skilled care and offers sometimes painful, sometimes funny realities of Alzheimer’s disease and of life in a nursing home.

Later, Court continued to draw on real experiences to chronicle a former caregiver’s experience as a park ranger seeking renewed enthusiasm for life…which she finds in uncanny places and with lovable characters in Rescuing Park Ranger Billie.

Court's recently released My Most Amazing Adventure: 1965-1966: A Diary records a 17-year-old's awkward introduction to the seismic shifts in America's changing social mores.

This website includes Court's one-act play Seeing People, her power-point presentation on compassionate care, excerpts from her three books, and her multiple winning essays.