Welcome! As ‘The’ Betty said ~ surely does: “Consider Yourself Hugged!”
Seeded in 1982 and earnestly grown from 1999, Betty’s Love thrives despite journeys of heartbreak. How? Betty’s Love, Hope, and JOY ~ inspiring families like yours worldwide. What began as a BIG Dream of one group home whose only criterion for carers and staff ~ Love-as-ACTS ~ became an Illinois 501c3 public charity UPlifting families in 150+ countries on five continents. Our grassroots movement still transforms standards, thought, and prACTices re brains, health, emotions, grief, and spirituality in Kids’ & Elders’ Lives, Losses, & Love.
Thanks for Patience & Prayers as we UPdate Betty’s Love, eBooks, 63 Programmes, & 300 Blogs to benefit a new not-for-profit organization, The Medium for Good Foundation.⢠Whilst we do ~ as has been Betty’s Mission since 1999: All are freely available to families in need! ‘Til WE meet: Please believe AND remember ~ pun Intended:
Thereâs so much we CAN do to boost and sustain cognition in all-aged brains ~ and unbridled JOY families CAN find journeying together ~ one day, one Mom & Dad, one partner, one child, one brain, one Act-with-Love at a time. Amen!
Betty’s Mantra? Love Is an Action Verb!⢠AND? Love IS. Shall WE? đ
Love UP!
Betty’s Love transforms health journeys via ‘The’ Betty’s signature Care-with-Love. What do we all need to learn about brain health and care? A lot! Learn how Betty’s Love IS “Changing Lives” ~ coming soon via eCourses that UPlift families in need for free ~ as featured in Costco’s Connection magazine!
Travel UP!
Journey of a lovely Summer afternoon on a trip to Ireland revisited through ‘The’ Betty’s grey eyes ~ and the still-misting greens of “Betty’s & Joe’s fortunate, grateful, proud daughter,” M. THE JOURNEY is a short read, Irish Tall Tale-with-Love which your family will, if wistfully, never forget….
Change UP!
Embrace. Empower. Engage! Inspire Betty’s Love via UPlifting ACTions fostering Hope and health in brains of all ages and at all stages ~ free to families in need on four continents, so far! Join a grassroots movement that IS Changing Lives ~ one Tweet-with-Love at a time @BettysLove!
Listen UP!
Pour a cup of brain-boosting tea* or coffee* and listen as Chicago’s iHeart Radio shares HOW ‘The’ Betty Loves YOU ~ still and always ~ and WHO’s UPlifted in her name. Gratitude galore to iHeart Radio’s Best Host Ever, Dianne Banks and the Collective of Women of the Week! *Betty’s Tip re caffeine: SIP It!â˘
Meet Betty’s Love’s Inspiration….
Bespoke for Blessings. Born to UNconditionally Love ~ as surely she DOES, still, ‘The’ Betty is best remembered by everyone she ever met for doing “ordinary things with extraordinary Love” ~ like BEing Love and manifesting Grace, Hope, and Courage whilst battling Alzheimerâs for 27+ years.
Today, in her Name, Bettyâs Love embraces, edifies, and engages families on four continents to Believe UP: âThereâs so much families CAN do-with-Love and so much JOY we find every day!â
What does your family need? A lot! Thatâs why we’ve offered Bettyâs Tips in five-star eBooks, free family events, and 63+ programs (so far). Thanks for your patience as we adapt Bettyâs University for membership and eCourses to help your family thrive wherever in our world you live. Empower your family with information you deserve to know to nourish, protect, and boost brains ~ and why. Engage brains health-fully ~ with and for all generations. Embrace yourselves and one another as you feel Bettyâs signature hugs ~ Look UP for yours! ; ) ~ every step of your family’s unique journey.
Believe: Love Is an Action Verb ~ also: Love IS! Once spurned for its simple complexity, Bettyâs Vision, mission, philosophy, and positivity are now world renowned for inspiring brains of all ages. Still seen by some as a ‘new’ paradigm, Betty’s Love embraces, engages, and edifies with Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Wisdom…. Bettyâs Love empowers families like yours ~ from securing A Proper Diagnosis⢠to creating a Team Bettyâs Action Plan.⢠Supported by decades of award-winning research, Betty’s Love’s founder is ârelentlessâ in her questions-asking, sharing inspired insights, and proving Betty’s tireless commitment to continuously improve others’ Life Journeys.
Listen UP! In 2012, Betty was celebrated as iHeart Radioâs Woman of the Week. Read UP! Costcoâs July 2009 Connection magazine titled, Making a Difference, praised Bettyâs Love among global charities founded by Costco members âdoing their partâ and âchanging the world.â [Listen, Read UP via links, above; check back for UPdates!]
Think UP! Betty’s Love was a âspecial guestâ on Dublinâs RTĂ during Queen Elizabeth IIâs historic 2010 visit to Ireland. That same year, Americaâs leading womenâs magazine shared âBettyâs Love Storyâ in a full-page feature of Bettyâs Tips⢠about Love, laughter, memory, and how mother and daughter âdiscovered hopeâ on their brain-breaking and JOY-boosting journey together. (Womanâs World, February 22, 2010)
Look UP! Bettyâs Heartquarters’ local newspaper, The Doings, lauded Bettyâs Love âproviding a sacred spaceâ wherein families found much-needed support, information, and respite in an historic restored chapel in suburban Chicago. (Pioneer Press, February 2011)
“Proven. Practical. UPlifting!” Betty’s daughter, M, is an EmmyÂŽ Award-winning journalist, author, advisor, and corporate-learning consultant. In 1982, for her own family, M began researching brains, Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia, By 1999, she was facilitating learning programs for families like hers, always for free, with specific focus on families’ holistic health in brain, body, emotion, and Spirit. In 2006 collaborations with interfaith church, charity, and community leaders, M’s ADvocacy evolved into an Illinois 501c3 nonprofit known globally as Bettyâs Love Alzheimerâs Charities. BLAC won several grants, attracted dozens of volunteers, inspired thousands of donorsâ generosity, and earned five-figure followers âthe old-fashioned way.â From BLACâs âHeartquartersâ in a chapel and in churches, libraries, senior centers, and care homes across Chicagoland, Bettyâs Love served families worldwide ~ individually, in hosted programs and weekly events, and via symposia featuring global leaders in faith and brain research.
“No family is ever turned away….” In November 2012 ~ pending restrictions by a new board regards serving families in need always freely and wherever in the world they lived ~ BLACâs original board voted unanimously to dissolve the nonprofit charity. Still? Bettyâs Love endeavors to propagate Betty’s Faith, Hope, JOY, and Unconditional Love. M remains compelled to defy fake news and ‘doom’n’gloom’ stories still unconscionably propagated in 2020 by fundraisers like Alz.org, research hoarders, drug companies, corporate lobbyists, and political misleaders.
Dancing in Paradise since 2005, Betty still inspires M’s ministry, pro-bono pastoral care, and passionate ADvocacy for UPlifting familiesâ Minds and Spirits to find JOY whilst on cognitive, mental-health, caregiving, end-of-life, and grief journeys…-with-Love. M’s promise in her spiritual and pastoral practices ~ and, please God, extending the legacy of Betty’s Beauty-full Soul into perpetuity:
âBefitting Momâs Love-as-ACTS of Kindness, Courage, Patience, enCouragement, Faith, Grace…: NO family is turned away for inability to pay.â
What do you need? Ask UP! Meantime, remember: You never journey alone. Ever. Forever, just like ‘The’ Betty: Love IS ~ in a very Present Tense!
What do families deserve to know? A lot!
Betty’s Love ensures families get what we need at every stage of brain-health journeys ~ as quick-changing as Chicago’s Lake Michigan ~ and through every experience of what ‘The’ Betty’s youngest child, M, calls, simply, Thinking Not Working.⢠M is a three-times granddaughter and six-times niece of Alzheimerâs disease and dementia. She first ADvocated for Elder Care-with-Love at age 16 ~ begging nursing-home caregivers to pay attention to Betty’s Mother, her Nannie. “Please sing with her. Hold her hand. Comb her hair. She loves that. Simply touch her kindly, won’t you? Do, and I promise you’ll find her smile. She’s still IN there!”
eJoin US in JOY in Betty’s University!â˘
In 2022, Betty’s Members will access 63+ Programs and scores of articles online! Betty’s Message and Mantra can transform your family’s care and grief to journeys filled with positivity, activity, and JOY ~ in homes, hospitals, care facilities, offices, schools, churches, community centers, charities…as it is on four continents, so far.
đBetty’s eBooks free to families in need.
â â â â â Betty’s eBooks are inspiring, FUN, UPlifting, and free with Kindle Unlimited. All are free to families in need and all kinds of Good DOers. No Kindle? No problem! Amazon still gifts apps. Even better: In every endeavor honoring Betty’s Love: 100% of profits benefits families like yours. Thank you for reading, gifting, sharing, and scattering JOY ~ and Love and hugs! ~ to boost brains at all stages and with ‘Kids’ of all ages!
What does your family need & deserve to learn ‘how to’ do…-with-Love? A lot!
Betty’s University⢠comprises 63 Programs, so far, designed to meet Betty’s Families’ unique needs. Betty’s eBooks beget presentations, discussions, symposia, and a new podcast! Everything Betty’s Love offers is practical, proven, positive, tailorable to meet your family’s needs, and FREE to Families in need and Good DOers … like YOU!
WHY? Simplest among scores of Betty’s Love’s UPlifting Lessons is this Betty’s Tip: It’s What Love DOES!â˘