Natalie Auerbach is a 95-year-old Memory Care patient, and an amateur artist. She has always dabbled in art and wanted to be a painter, but chose instead to be a wife, a homemaker and a mother, as that was what was expected of her generation after World War II.

In her later years, beginning around the age of 80 (Natalie doesn’t clearly remember when) she began taking art lessons, sometimes privately, sometimes attending classes. She continues to take painting & drawing classes whenever she can – proving it is never too late to follow your dreams – and everyone agrees this calms her anxiety, and gives her purpose.

Natalie has lived in Massachusetts, where she was born, in Connecticut, New Jersey, Louisiana (outside New Orleans), in Florida and California. She temporarily resides with her daughter, who wants to keep her “at home” despite the difficult times, the challenges and the costs, rather than put her Mom in a Nursing Care facility where she will be in the hands of strangers. The costs of caring for Natalie, due to her age and her disease, are astonishing.

Therefore, the idea to sell her paintings, to raise money for Natalie’s dementia care,  was born.