Authors

Nell Casey is the editor of the national best seller Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and, more recently, An Uncertain Inheritance: Writers on Caring for Family. She has written for such publications as the New York Times , Slate , Salon , and Elle . She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with he

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Nick DiUlio is an award-winning freelance writer and editor whose published work has focused on everything from profiles of artists and important political figures to hard-news stories with both national and local appeal. His work has appeared in several regional and national publications—both in pr

Pamela Marshall is a geriatric care manager in Tacoma, Washington.

Pat Wadsley is a contributing writer for Caring.com and writes frequently about health for a variety of national publications. She is the winner of the 2010 National Health Information Award for Best Feature Writing for "Driving with MS" an examination of cognition, physical disabilities and techno

Paula Spencer Scott is the author of Surviving Alzheimer's: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers and much of the Alzheimer's and caregiving content on Caring.com.

Scott has specialized in women's life-stage concerns (baby care, family care, self-care, elder care) from her first j

Sally Abrahms, an award-winning writer, specializes in caregiving and housing for boomers and seniors. Her stories have appeared in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, AARP (the Magazine, the Bulletin, and aarp.org) and the Boston Globe, among others. She has writ

Sara Rattigan received her MS in Health Communication from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2009 but discovered her passion for health promotion nearly a decade earlier as editorial assistant for StudentAdvantage.com’s former health news section. Since then, her work has expanded to include ot

Sarah Henry has covered health stories for most of her more than two decades as a writer, from her ten-year stint at the award-winning Center for Investigative Reporting to her staff writer position with Hippocrates magazine to her most recent Web work for online sites, including WebMD, Babycenter.c