Think Dementia

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 ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that affects the muscles, but a small percentage of those with ALS also have FTD.      Amy House, C.D.P. guides car...

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 one of the types that starts with problems with language, the non-fluent agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia or nfvPPA FTD.  Amy highligh...

Send us Fan Mail For National FTD Awareness Week Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia.  Each week Amy is covering a different type and variant of FTD.  In this episode she talks about one of the types that starts with problems with understanding and producing language, the Semantic Variant or svFTD.    Amy House, C.D.P. guides care...

Send us Fan Mail For National FTD Awareness Week Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause 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 episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better...

Send us Fan Mail In this AfterThoughts with Amy episode, Amy House reviews how to make a graceful exit but adds some more thoughts on how to make sure the person doesn't feel forgotten, what is happening in their short term memory and words of encouragement for those having to take a break from visiting their loved one living with dementia.   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understa...

Send us Fan Mail A question on Reddit sparks the conversation of how to not distress a loved one when saying goodbye and leaving them, whether at home or in a Memory Care.  Amy talks about ways to have a graceful exit and the importance of communication with whomever is looking after the person living with dementia when you go.   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Amy offers suggestions on how to support someone living with dementia that is looking for someone that is deceased.   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 qual...

Send us Fan Mail Amy has exciting news with a program by Medicare that is free to those living with dementia to help them and their care partners.  Amy is going to be starting this program in Minnesota with Tembo Health and is excited about this 8 year commitment to better dementia care in the U.S.    Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podc...

Send us Fan Mail In this "Afterthoughts with Amy” episode Amy recommends two books that she recommends having at the bedside of someone who is dying.    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 bett...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Amy answers a question about what to expect when someone is in the dying process.      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 relations...

Send us Fan Mail In this "Afterthoughts with Amy” episode Amy continues to address a question from a listener concerned that someone living with dementia at home may forget to eat and not take their medications.  Amy talks further about therapy assessing the needs of the person regarding the stage of dementia the person is living with.      Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understand...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amy answers a question from a listener concerned that someone living with dementia at home may forget to eat and not take their medications.    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....

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Afterthoughts with Amy episode, Amy talks about the role that trauma plays in behavioral symptoms like anger or aggression.      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 In this episode Amy builds off a previous episode #29, Keeping Things At A Simmer.   This episode focuses on anger with verbal and physical aggressions and what to do when that pot of water representing a person’s emotions and reactions boil over and present behavioral symptoms.     Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcas...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Amy discusses ways to encourage someone to take their medications when they do not want to.     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...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode a caregiver asks if a feeding tube has improved someone living with dementia’s life for the better.    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, im...

Send us Fan Mail In this Afterthoughts with Amy episode, Amy goes into more details about how to connect through the joy of talking about the past and gives tips on what questions to ask and recommendations of books and games to encourage this.    Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episod...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode a woman at a conference asks Amy why her mother-in-law enjoys telling old stories.     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 relations...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode an anonymous listener asks if dementia only affects the elderly.  Amy discusses types of dementia that happen in early life including dementia that affects children.    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 l...

Send us Fan Mail Afterthoughts with Amy is an episode where Amy shares additional information, ideas, comments or questions in relation to the episode earlier in the week.  This Afterthoughts episode is about The Power of a Dementia Support Group.   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each epis...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a podcast version of a presentation by Amy House, Paula Rice Biever and Liegh Herrick on the Power of a Dementia Support Group.    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 t...

Send us Fan Mail In this “Afterthoughts with Amy” episode, Amy explores more possible emergencies and planning to consider when caring for someone living with dementia that were the center of of the Possible Dementia Related Emergencies episode.   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each episod...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode a listener is concerned that some things have gotten out of hand at home and they didn’t recognize it was an emergency.  Amy reviews some possible situations that can happen with someone living with dementia and when to get emergency medical services involved.    Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast ha...

Send us Fan Mail Think Dementia episodes of Afterthoughts with Amy are follow up mini-episodes to previously released ones.  This is a follow up to the Keeping Things at a Simmer episode #29 with additional information or comments and feedback from listeners.  It is recommended that you listen to episode 29 first and then this episode.   Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode a listener is concerned that Grandma’s behavior is affecting the whole family negatively.  Amy gives advice on some Stress Busters to ensure they are in play and triggers to avoid, helping to keep things at a simmer.    Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each e...