What Everyone Needs to Know About Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia by Steven R. Sabat
Dementia Reconsidered by Tom Kitwood
Philosophy of Loneliness by Lars Svendsen
Touch by David J. Linden
I and Thou by Martin Buber
Soul of Care by Arthur Kleinman
Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease by Dr. Stephen G. Post
Lost Art of Listening by Michael P. Nichols, PhD
Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski
On Living by Kerry Egan
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Soul Therapy by Thomas Moore
The Listening Path by Julia Cameron
No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton
No Self, No Problem by Chris Niebauer
The Life Cycle Completed by Erik H. Erikson
A Primer for Forgetting by Lewis Hyde
The Courage to Create by Rollo May
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The Lost Art of Dying by Lydia S. Dugdale
The Discovery of Being by Rollo May
A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer
Lack and Transcendence by David Loy
Illusion and Reality by David Smail
On Vanishing by Lynn Casteel Harper
Whole Brain Living by Jill Bolte Taylor
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Oldtimer’s and Alzheimer’s by Jaber F. Gubrium
Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker
Dignity and Grace by Janet L. Ramsey
The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
Relationality by Stephen A. Mitchell
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman
Asylums by Erving Goffman
Breath by James Nestor
Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin
On Dementia by Tom Kitwood
The Expectation Effect by David Robson
The Book of Joy by The Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
Together by Vivek H. Murthy, MD
Remember by Lisa Genova
Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer
Empathy by Susan Lanzoni
You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
The Places that Scare You by Pema Chödrön
Still Here by Ram Dass
Validation Breakthrough by Naomi Feil
Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
Spectrum of Hope by Gayatri Devi, MD
Michael holds two master’s degrees: an MA in literary studies from the University of Iowa, and a MA in theology from the University of Durham, England, where he graduated at the top of his international class. At Lamar University, where he began his teaching career, he was named Teacher of the Year in his third year of teaching–the youngest teacher to ever receive that recognition at the university. He taught English for ten years before founding Memory Bridge. Currently, he is completing his PhD at Indiana University, focusing on empathetic communication and literature and religion.
Michael Verde founded Memory Bridge in 2003 for the purpose of ending the emotional isolation of people with dementia. To date, Memory Bridge’s multiple-award winning educational programs, hosted on three continents, have connected over 8,500 people with and without dementia in one-to-one relationships. In 2008, Michael produced the PBS Documentary There Is a Bridge.
Michael presents across the world on the subjects of literature, world religions, and communicating with people with dementia.