Think Dementia

Send us Fan Mail Caregiving can be very stressful and many people around you may not realize the challenges of a lengthy caregiving journey like Alzheimer's or other types of dementia.  In this episode Amy discusses why caregiving with dementia is so different than other types of caregiving and what makes it so challenging.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia...

Send us Fan Mail Hear from Amy House, how she found her calling, her experiences over the years and how Think Dementia came to be.   The podcast has just hit 10,000 downloads and this is the 100th episode so Amy shares what happens behind the scenes to get Think Dementia out there each week and appreciation for all the listeners who have helped the podcast grow. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partn...

Send us Fan Mail Is your loved one living with dementia at risk for getting scammed?  In Part 2 of this series Amy continues the conversation about the kinds of scams that are out there, ideas to protect your loved one’s finances and great information that AARP provides.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions fro...

Send us Fan Mail Is your loved one living with dementia at risk for getting scammed?  In Part 1 of this series Amy tells you about some kinds of scams that are out there and how AARP can help.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to...

Send us Fan Mail Amy celebrates caregivers that have great ideas and share them to inspire you.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better quality of life, improved relationships and empowered care...

Send us Fan Mail A family member contacts Amy to find out how they should approach decisions that have already been made, but forgotten, by their loved one living with dementia.  They are having outbursts of anger and feeling excluded and the family wants some ideas on how to Think Dementia. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has re...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know that dementia can affect someone's vision?  Even if their eyes seem okay, someone living with dementia may experience vision changes that lead to confusion, isolation, and challenges with cares.  Over a decade ago, Teepa Snow trained Amy House in how dementia changes the brain and this information was a game changer in how Amy communicates and solves challenges w...

Send us Fan Mail Amy talks about how to set someone living with dementia up for success who may be struggling with the ability to self-start. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better quality of li...

Send us Fan Mail Someone is having a delusion, or maybe it is confusion?  How can a care partner “go with the flow” when something isn’t true or the person is traveling into the past?  Amy gives you some simple tips on how to respond to these situations.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Eac...

Send us Fan Mail Amy talks about why someone may be having some challenges with evening bathroom cares and some ideas to try.  Amy also shares thoughts about how traumatic caregiving can be when your loved one is distressed or not themselves.  It is hard to forget those moments even years after caregiving.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. Thi...

Send us Fan Mail A guest at a health fair asks Amy if there is more dementia in the world today compared to years ago and Amy has some fascinating information to share.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This l...

Send us Fan Mail Learn to Think Dementia and what is happening in a stage of the disease where someone likes to take objects even when they do not belong to them. A listener asks if a Memory Care can require the family to provide supervision during awake hours for their friend living with dementia that is taking things out of other resident’s rooms.  Amy lends her experience as a former Director o...

Send us Fan Mail Amy House provides information on types of dementia that are genetic, what the APOE4 carrier gene is about and what you can and cannot modify in your life that increases your risk for developing dementia.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their ques...

Send us Fan Mail Amy has a question about Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and a person's prognosis.   This timely questions sheds light on a cause of dementia that can be reversible and has recently been in the headlines as Billy Joel, musician, releases that he has been receiving treatment for NPH.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This po...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy answers a question from a listener about if she really needs to take her grandmother to specialty appointments if she isn't going to participate and this leads to a discussion about considering why you are going to all these appointments as a busy caregiver and how it might be easier to do things differently. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in unde...

Send us Fan Mail Amy shares some creative ideas to help people living with dementia and their caregivers that she has heard from caregivers over the years or some of her own that have been more unique.  Hopefully this will inspire you to think outside the box! Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners....

Send us Fan Mail Whether your loved one living with dementia is nearing the end of the journey or you have not thought about what dying with dementia is like, listen to this episode to learn what happens to the brain and body during the last stages of dementia, what hospice is, the benefits of hospice, the misconceptions and when it is time to consider hospice.  This is going to be hard but Amy wi...

Send us Fan Mail A granddaughter contacts Amy for advice on how to get her grandmother to stop picking her scalp.   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better quality of life, improved relationships...

Send us Fan Mail Amy House helps you Think Dementia when it comes to fun in the sun and hot weather so you know how to keep someone living with dementia safe this summer. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This...

Send us Fan Mail This is a follow up episode to Should we go to the cabin? where Amy offers additional ideas to make a successful trip away from the Memory Care to the cabin for a man and his family. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you lea...

Send us Fan Mail Amy's friend asks if he should bring his father to the summer cabin this year after living in Memory Care for a while.  Amy talks about how this could go and ways to be successful when going somewhere familiar or unfamiliar for the day or overnight. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from...

Send us Fan Mail Amy continues the discussion about sex and consenting with dementia and what can happen if someone cannot consent. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better quality of life, improv...

Send us Fan Mail Amy discusses common sexual situations that may present when someone is living with dementia and their ability to consent to sexual contact and sexual acts.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” T...

Send us Fan Mail In this follow up episode to #76 on Late Stage Dementia, Amy House, C.D.P.  gives some more information regarding tools and resources that can help with the physical demands of caregiving for someone in the last stages of dementia. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episo...

Send us Fan Mail A husband asks how he can learn to reminisce with his wife on the go such as in the car, while in the waiting room at an appointment or out running errands to keep her mind occupied during downtime.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions...