Think Dementia
Think Dementia is education and support for care partners. Listeners can record a message and Amy House, C.D.P. will unpack your question on the podcast and help you start to think dementia. This results in better relationships and less stress for care partners.
Episodes
58 episodes
Afterthoughts with Amy: Denial
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 i...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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13:18
Denial
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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36:13
FTD and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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18:21
FTD and Corticobasal Syndrome
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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8:06
FTD and ALS (Lous Gehrig's Disease)
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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14:29
nfvPPA FTD: Non-fluent aggramatic primary progressive aphasia
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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21:20
FTD Semantic Variant
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 o...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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11:50
FTD: Frontotemporal Degeneration
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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34:03
AfterThoughts with Amy: How to Make a Graceful Exit
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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7:01
A Graceful Exit
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 wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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14:33
Where is My Husband?
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 pod...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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28:46
NEW FREE Medicare GUIDE Dementia Program
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 com...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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15:25
Afterthoughts with Amy: What to Expect When Grandma is Dying
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. T...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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10:18
What to Expect When Grandma Is Passing
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 que...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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20:00
Afterthoughts with Amy: Home Alone & Missing Meals and Medications
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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12:32
Home Alone & Missing Meals and Medications
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 deme...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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21:50
Afterthoughts with Amy: Boiling Over Anger and Aggression
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 affect...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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16:14
Boiling Over: Aggression and Anger
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 bo...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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40:39
Taking Medications
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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19:58
Can a Feeding Tube Make Someone's Life Better?
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 r...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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10:13
Afterthoughts with Amy: The Joy of Talking About the Past
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. &nbs...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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11:19
Is it Just the Elderly That Get Dementia?
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 partn...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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21:34
The Joy of Talking About the Past
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 question...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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10:10
Afterthoughts with Amy: The Power of a Dementia Support Group
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.&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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10:15