The Unspoken Challenges of Caregiving for Dementia

Anne Hallward, MD, is a board certified psychiatrist in Portland, Maine, and the host and founder of Safe Space Radio.  She is passionate about creating spaces for people to talk about difficult subjects, rather than leaving people isolated with their worst struggles. Formerly on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, she co-designed and taught courses on death and dying, cultural humility, sexuality, and psychiatric interviewing. She’s also published on fostering empathy with podcasts, death and dying, cultural identity and bias in medicine, sexuality, and causes of hunger in the Philippines and Bangladesh. Anne is the recipient of the Ulrich B. Jacobsohn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians, the Jeanne Spurlock Social Justice Award from the Association of Women Psychiatrists, and an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She has also been recognized for her work in radio with a Gracie Award for Best Host of a Local Radio Show on Caregiving and Dementia. Anne speaks internationally on caregiving and dementia, emotional courage, stigma and shame, traumatic silence, and voluntary vulnerability. She served as a family caregiver when her father had dementia, and supports families impacted by dementia in her clinical work.