Think Dementia

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a podcast version of a Tembo Health Share and Care Webinar that Amy House did in 2025 helping caregivers understand what happens to the brain and body and what care someone will need in the later stages of their dementia. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each...

Send us Fan Mail Joe from Louisville, Kentucky asks Amy if a person who has dementia loses their sense of humor or if it remains unchanged.   Amy tells some heartwarming stories of celebrating humor with a disease where it can be hard to find moments to chuckle.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listene...

Send us Fan Mail While someone is enrolling their loved one living with dementia into the hospice program they sometimes wonder, “do I really need a hospital bed?”  Amy breaks down some good reasons to consider having a hospital bed for both the hospice patient and for the caregivers.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded...

Send us Fan Mail In this Afterthoughts with Amy episode, Amy discusses what to do if your loved one is not letting the in-home care attendant into the home.  This is a follow up to a previous episode where someone is wondering how to talk to their mother about 24/7 in-home care. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questi...

Send us Fan Mail A listener asks Amy for some tips on how to talk to their mother about having in-home care in the house 24/7.   Amy gives the family some ideas on how to approach this subject in a compassionate and understanding way.    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 unp...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, two caregivers reveal the stresses they are under with other family members giving their opinions.  One has a mother in law in Memory Care and feels criticized.  The other is caring full time for her mother at home and knows her family means well but the unsolicited advice is adding to her caregiver stress.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding...

Send us Fan Mail In this After Thoughts with Amy episode, Amy looks into the type of dementia that someone may have that gives them a boost of artistic skills as their disease progresses.  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 “thin...

Send us Fan Mail A listener asks how they can give their Grandma living with dementia something to do.  She keeps asking “what should I be doing?”  This third episode of a 3 part series talks about doing household chores and familiar tasks can give someone a sense of routine and purpose.   Amy also talks about exploring your city and getting out of the house.   For a list of activities mentioned i...

Send us Fan Mail A listener asks how they can give their Grandma living with dementia something to do.  She keeps asking “what should I be doing?”  This second episode of a 3 part series talks about sensory and creative activities and engagement.   For a list of activities mentioned in this episode go to www.think-dementia.com/resources   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how...

Send us Fan Mail A listener asks how they can give their Grandma living with dementia something to do.  She keeps asking “what should I be doing?”  This first episode of a 3 part series talks about activities and engagement for reminiscing and spiritual activities.  For a list of activities mentioned in this episode go to www.think-dementia.com/resources   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in...

Send us Fan Mail Amy House has been noticing a dementia storyline in some of the shows she has been watching.  What other movies and series are highlighting how dementia touches everyone somehow?  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...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Afterthoughts with Amy, our host Amy House discusses a few more tips on incontinence that she did not mention in the Everything Incontinence episode.  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...

Send us Fan Mail A listener wants to know more about a resident’s right to refuse care in the Assisted Living setting.  Amy discusses how to proceed and ensure resident rights are upheld and cares are still done with dignity and respect.  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 un...

Send us Fan Mail Amy has been hearing about the stomach flu around the country- how does this spread to fast and how can you support someone living with 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 questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to...

Send us Fan Mail A podcast of Amy’s webinar regarding personal cares, this episode includes how to assist someone with incontinence concerns in the early, middle and late stages of the disease.  Get your pen and paper because these are all the tips and tricks Amy has learned over the decades.     Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast h...

Send us Fan Mail An audience member at a presentation asks Amy, "Why do I have to do that test at the doctor every year? Why do I have to draw that clock?"  Amy dives into the purpose of the cognitive testing that happens annually during your physical and what types of tests they are using and why. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. Th...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Amy discusses considerations for a man unaware of his diagnosis right now, but his family has received news via phone from the neurologist confirming he has dementia.   The appointment to see the neurologist is months away and should the family tell him or keep it a secret until the appointment. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Amy answers a questions regarding the difference between dementia and LATE disorder.  Learn more about this newly recognized type of dementia and how it is similar to Alzheimer's and FTD in some ways.  LATE may even be in the top 4 diseases that cause dementia and yet many don’t know about it.  Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dement...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Amy draws from her experience in Minnesota with cold weather and talks about how to keep someone living with dementia safe and warm.    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 le...

Send us Fan Mail In this Afterthoughts with Amy  episode there is a further discussions about brain health equity in brain donation and Amy covers some myths out there about brain donation. 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 “thi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy gives listeners information on brain donation and how it works.    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 empowe...

Send us Fan Mail In this Afterthoughts with Amy the host talks about a presentation she saw with Lori La Bey, a Twin Cities dementia advocate and educator about denial.  This was timely as the episode where a listener asked how to deal with spouse who is in denial was a week before Amy House saw Lori present, providing further insight into why someone might be in denial.    Amy House, C.D.P. guide...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode a listener asks how to handle a situation where the spouse is in denial that his wife has signs of dementia.   Amy met this listener at the Caregiving for People with Memory Loss conference in 2024 who has in-laws in their 80s. 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 For National FTD Awareness Week (9/22) Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia.  Each week Amy covers a different type and variant of FTD.  In this episode she talks about Progressive Supranuclear Palsy which is a movement disorder in the FTD family.    Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dement...

Send us Fan Mail For National FTD Awareness Week (9/22) Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia.  Each week Amy covers a different type and variant of FTD.  In this episode she talks about Corticobasal Syndrome, a neurodegenerative disease that affects the muscles, looks similar to Parkinson’s disease but is in the FTD family.    Amy H...