McKnight’s Senior Living September 30, 2024
“My husband jokes that if people didn’t like [male anatomy] jokes, we wouldn’t have been able to do it,” Lauren Miller Rogen, wife of actor/writer/producer/director Seth Rogen, told an overflowing crowd at the Women’s Networking Meetup last week at the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s 2024 Fall Conference in Washington, DC.
The comment elicited much laughter, as intended, but Lauren’s topic was no laughing matter.
The “it” to which she was referring was the in-home care her mother, Adele, required due to dementia. Adele had received a diagnosis of dementia in 2012, when she was 55, although by that time she had been displaying symptoms for a few years, Lauren said.
“Unfortunately, before my mom was diagnosed,...