Paula Farris is The Encourager to Home Caregivers. She was a part-time caregiver for her Mom who suffered from Alzheimer's Disease and multiple blood clots for several years prior to her death in 2008.

During that time she managed her Mom's financial and medical affairs serving as both medical and durable power of attorney. Studying everything from drug interactions to prescription drug costs to reverse mortgages to how to improve memory function she became an expert in the field of Dementia Caregiving.

She is the owner, with her sister Lanette, of http://www.DementiaCaregiving101.com, a site that offers encouragement, instruction, and understanding to other dementia caregivers from someone who has been there.