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
51 episodes
FTD: Frontaltemporal Degeneration
For National FTD Awareness Week Amy provides education and awareness on Frontaltemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brai...
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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
The Power of a Dementia Support Group
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 t...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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36:47
Afterthoughts with Amy: Possible Dementia Related Emergencies
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.
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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12:54
Possible Dementia Related Emergencies
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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30:30
Afterthoughts with Amy: Keeping Things at a Simmer
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 listene...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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14:07
Keeping Things At A Simmer
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. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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57:41
Eating Pizza and Drinking Beer
In this episode a listener asks if she should do something about her father's take out eating habits and beer drinking. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has rec...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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13:08
Bringing Up Concerns About Cognition
In this episode a listener asks about how to approach someone who may be having changes to their cognition. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questi...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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14:00
Connecting with Grandma After Transitioning
In this episode Amy gives advice to a transgender man who doesn't want to stress or confuse his grandma who may not recognize him. Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. Thi...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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6:54