Paula Spencer

Member since January 13, 2008

Bio

Paula Spencer, Senior Editor of the Alzheimer's/Dementia channel, has specialized in writing about family care and health from her very first post-college job as an editor of 50 Plus magazine through her most recent post as a columnist for Woman's Day. She's the author or collaborating author of a dozen books, including Momfidence, and her articles have appeared in Newsweek, Health, Parenting, USA Weekend, and other magazines and websites. She has received writing awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Arthritis Foundation.

Paula earned her B.A. in journalism and American studies at the University of Iowa. She now lives with her husband and their four children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she's also on the advisory board of the Medical Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 2007 alone, Paula dealt with the unexpected cancer death of her 81-year-old mother, who had also broken her pelvis months earlier, and with moving her father, who is 86 and has early dementia, from the home he'd lived in for more than 40 years.