Gail Weatherill RN CAEd

Gail Weatherill is a Registered Nurse and board-certified Alzheimer's Educator. Her career has spanned four decades and many settings. From an intensive care head nurse in Saudi Arabia to the Director of Nursing in a Virginia nursing home, Gail has done it all. For the last twenty years, Gail has focused on the care of people living with dementia and the education of their caregivers. She practices as her professional alter ego, The Dementia Nurse. Her ability to hear hearts instead of brains gives Gail a unique understanding of those with dementia and the people who love them. Gail became a family caregiver herself when a beloved client with no family moved in with her and her family for her last few years of life. She understands the demands of 24/7 care of a loved one with dementia. She now works to compensate for our health "care" system's failure to support caregivers in meeting those demands. Gail's irreverent approach to the American health care machine makes her an effective and sought out advocate for those in deepest need. She has participated in the Nurses Take DC movement for safe staffing ratios in our hospitals and long term care facilities. Through her writing, speaking, and coaching, Gail lives to educate dementia caregivers "one heart at a time". She maintains a closed caregiver support group on Facebook, a group that has grown to 50,000 members from over 100 countries. The need is global and great. As Gail enters her fortieth year of nursing practice, she will tell you she is just getting started. You can keep up with her at https://thedementianurse.com. When she's not busy rabble-rousing for health care causes, Gail can be found reading, sewing fidget quilts, and missing her two daughters whom she says live entirely too far from their mother. She shares her home in Charlottesville, VA with a cat named Baby Silas who lets her use the laptop when he's not busy warming his belly on it.