JOIN THE ACCOMPANIMENT JOURNEY
AS A FOUNDING SUPPORTER
Your connection to this work goes beyond financial support. By joining early in this journey, you become part of bringing these essential insights to families navigating cognitive decline while helping shape the future of accompaniment - in whatever form resonates most with you.
The Accompaniment Series has emerged from seven years walking alongside my mother Betty through dementia and cancer, followed by seven years of writing and reflection. All three books have been written and are at different stages of editing and refinement.
Advanced Reader Copies
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS NOW
These Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) Special Editions are available only during this founding phase. Your early support does more than provide resources - it creates a community of people who share a vision of transforming dementia care through deeper connection.
By supporting this work, you're helping:
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Bring practical insights to families currently walking this path
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Create language and frameworks for genuine accompaniment
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Build bridges between caregiving approaches and relationship-centered models
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Develop resources that honor personhood through cognitive change
Supporting AccompanyAI Development
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AccompanyAI 2.0
For those interested in how technology might extend accompaniment principles to reach those without access to human support:
AccompanyAI extends the principles of the Accompaniment Series into an innovative technology that supports people experiencing cognitive change and those who walk alongside them. Using artificial intelligence trained on the patterns of effective human accompaniment, this tool helps preserve core stories, create meaningful connections, and maintain personhood when memory begins to fade. AccompanyAI isn't designed to replace human connection but to amplify it, creating a bridge between optimal human accompaniment and conventional care approaches.
Your contribution fuels the development of this groundbreaking technology, helping create a working prototype that demonstrates AccompanyAI's potential to transform dementia care. From initial concept to beta testing to international implementation, each stage requires resources to bring this vision to life. By supporting AccompanyAI now, you're investing in a future where technology serves human connection rather than replacing it, ensuring that no one—regardless of location, resources, or circumstances—journeys through cognitive change alone.
To learn more about AccompanyAI and try the working prototype visit the AccompanyAI page on this site.
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Supporting the Accompaniment Mission
Supporting the Overall Accompaniment Mission
If you prefer to make a general contribution that supports both the book series and research into accompaniment approaches:
The Accompaniment Series emerged from seven years walking alongside my mother Betty through dementia and cancer, discovering how beauty creates pathways to connection, how relationship becomes cognitive support when memory falters, and how two people might continue growing together through cognitive change. These books offer practical wisdom and emotional insight for the millions of families navigating this challenging terrain, showing how skilled caregiving combined with genuine accompaniment creates possibilities that neither approach can achieve alone.
Your donation directly supports the development, refinement, and outreach of this work, helping bring these insights to families worldwide. Whether you contribute once or monthly, you're helping create resources that show how to recognize beauty as gateway, develop hidden layers of connection, integrate head and heart approaches, and build narrative frameworks that support personhood through changing abilities. Join us in reshaping how we approach cognitive decline—not just as a medical condition to be managed, but as a human journey where possibility remains even amid apparent limitation.
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Gratitude and Impact: The Power of Your Support
Your contribution to the Accompaniment mission extends far beyond financial support. Each person who stands with us becomes part of something larger—a community dedicated to ensuring no one journeys through cognitive change unaccompanied.
When you support this work, you're not just funding a project; you're helping preserve human dignity and connection at a time when they're most vulnerable. Every contribution, regardless of size, helps build a future where identity endures through cognitive change.
The Ripple Effect of Your Support
The impact of your generosity extends in many directions:
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Families facing cognitive change gain access to tools that maintain meaningful connection
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Caregivers and companions receive frameworks that reduce stress and enhance relationship quality
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Research and development advances to create more sophisticated support systems
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Cultural narratives begin to shift from fear and loss toward possibility and preservation
My Commitment to You
We honor your support through:
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Transparency in how funds are used and progress made
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Regular updates on development milestones and implementation
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Acknowledgment of your role in making this vision reality
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Responsible stewardship of every contribution
From all of us at the Accompaniment Project, and on behalf of countless families who will benefit from your generosity—thank you for believing in a world where cognitive change doesn't have to mean the end of connection, dignity, or personhood.
Together, we're writing a new story about what's possible when we accompany each other through life's most challenging passages.
In gratitude and deep thanks,
