Kathy Laurenhue, M.A., is CEO of Wiser Now, Inc. a company focused on training and product development related to older adults, with an emphasis on positive mind stimulation, life stories, dementia, and caregiving. For the last 15 years, Kathy has given seminars throughout the U.S. and Australia and has developed multimedia training materials for national companies in both countries.

In the 1990s, Kathy was president of Better Directions, Inc., a multimedia training company that emphasized a practical, but light-hearted approach to Alzheimer’s care, manifested in part through Wiser Now, her international award-winning monthly newsletter for Alzheimer’s caregivers.

Her interest in life stories began in the early 1970s as she began interviewing relatives to try to make sense of her father’s complicated genealogy. This was followed by a home business of writing the life stories of others, teaching life stories through a local community college, leading programming sessions in long-term care, and ultimately writing Getting to Know the Life Stories of Older Adults: Activities for Building Relationships. She is also the author of Alzheimer's Basic Caregiving: An ABC Guide and Activities of Daily Living: An ADL Guide for Alzheimer's Care.

Kathy has a master’s degree in instructional technology and an undergraduate degree in English and journalism. She began putting these skills to work in the field of dementia while serving as the primary caregiver for her ever-cheerful mother, who died of Alzheimer’s in 1996.