Bruce McIntyre

Bruce McIntyre is the author of Receiving Peace, Thrive Anyway, Parkinson Positive, Graceful Transitions and Resilient Life. He serves as the CEO of the Oklahoma Parkinson’s Alliance. Bruce shares his expert guidance and warm humor with thousands of people each year.

As a caregiver for his wife since 2004, Bruce understands the world of chronic illness and caregiving. With 15 years of pastoral ministry experience and over a decade of nonprofit leadership, he has learned from thousands of people finding their way through adversity.

Click anywhere on this paragraph to listen in on a 2024 podcast with All Home Care Matters and learn about the genesis of my work from my wife’s diagnosis day.

Story

Words For Those Who Care #4 People never seem to ask when you’re ready for them. These surprise attacks can happen in waiting rooms, on elevators, or in the bleachers. “What’s wrong with your hands? Does your mother have Alzheimer’s? Why were you in the hospital?” In...

Self-Care

Words For Those Who Care #3 For many family caregivers, the notion of self-care seems counterintuitive. You might even feel a twinge of guilt for resting, exercising, or doing something to rejuvenate. But, if you don’t, you’ll burn out faster. In this spirit, today’s...

Grace

Words For Those Who Care #2 As you lean into your unique situation, remember, there is grace for you! If no one else has ever extended it, or if you have a supremely difficult time believing it, allow me to extend some grace to you: You are forgiven. Today is a new...

No.

Words For Those Who Care #1 The moist smell of cool, morning, summer air stirred lightly past my nostrils and I breathed it in… deeply. Pepper, our cat, was playing with an unlucky toad. A young robin kept an eye on the cat as it pecked at the bird feeder. The steady...