Port of Call | The Dementia Awareness Podcast

In this episode of the Port of Call podcast, Laura Wayman and Jocelyn Ives sit down with Ami Reichman, a senior living advisor and daughter caring for a father living with dementia symptoms. Ami spends her professional life helping families navigate dementia care, assisted living, memory care, and senior living decisions. But when dementia affected her own father, she found herself facing the same...

In this episode of the Dementia Lifeboat Port of Call podcast, Laura Wayman and Jocelyn Ives sit down with caregiver Joe Dunham to talk about the emotional reality of caring for parents with dementia symptoms, medical complications, grief, and caregiver burnout.  Joe shares the heartbreaking and overwhelming experience of navigating dementia care while trying to advocate for his father through hos...

In this episode of the Dementia Lifeboat Port of Call podcast, Laura Wayman and co-host Jocelyn Ives sit down with caregiver Cindy to share a deeply personal and eye-opening story. Cindy opens up about her husband’s journey following a traumatic brain injury and the unexpected onset of dementia symptoms years later. What started as subtle personality changes quickly turned into confusion, fear, an...

In this episode of Dementia Lifeboat: Port of Call , dementia educator Laura Wayman and certified life coach Jocelyn Ives sit down with Jennifer Gilbertson to talk about what dementia symptoms can look like in real life, long before many families recognize what is happening. Jennifer shares the early changes her family noticed in her mother: repeated stories, difficulty following familiar routines...

In this episode of Dementia Lifeboat: Port of Call , dementia educator Laura Wayman and certified life coach Jocelyn Ives walk through what happens after the words “dementia” or “Alzheimer’s” are spoken in a doctor’s office.  A diagnosis often brings fear, overwhelm, denial, and a flood of “what if” questions about the future. In this conversation, Laura explains what is actually happening in the...

In this opening episode of Dementia Lifeboat: Port of Call, dementia educator Laura Wayman and certified life coach Jocelyn Ives introduce a different way of understanding dementia, one rooted in real-life experiences. Not just clinical definitions.  This conversation focuses on what often shows up first : the quiet loss of learned executive function. Tasks that once happened on autopilot, such as...