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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
106 episodes
Caregiver Stress: Delegating to Others, and Caregiver Burnout
Caregiving can be very stressful and lonely, it can be hard to know where to begin in managing your stress. In this episode Amy gives you some ideas on what you could delegate to those that want to help as well as the feelings and sympto...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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27:16
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Caregiver Stress-Reducing the Stress When Getting Paid Help and Delegation
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 the barriers to letting someone else car...
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Season 1
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Episode 102
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32:12
Caregiver Stress: Why Is Caregiving So Challenging with Dementia?
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 diffe...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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35:58
Why Think Dementia?
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 100
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42:55
Avoiding Money Scams Part 2
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 99
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20:14
Avoiding Money Scams Part 1
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 understan...
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Season 1
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Episode 98
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18:33
Celebrating Caregivers Doing Great Things
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 ep...
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Season 1
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Episode 97
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10:37
This Is The First I Am Hearing Of This
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 96
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21:56
Vision Changes with Dementia
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 95
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13:30
Break It Down
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 94
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15:10
Confusion or Delusion? How could I respond?
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 situatio...
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Season 1
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Episode 93
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15:35
Bathroom Cares Are Upsetting Us Both
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 h...
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Season 1
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Episode 92
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36:43
Is There More Dementia In The World Today?
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 91
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19:21
Memory Care Resident Is Taking Things and They Ask Family to Provide Oversight
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 90
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56:53
How Can We Prevent Dementia?
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 ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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35:03
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus- What Is It and What It The Prognosis?
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 tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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24:17
Do I have to keep all these specialist appointments?
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 thes...
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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18:07
Sharing great ideas from caregivers and Amy's experiences
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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23:20
Understanding End of Life and Hospice
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,...
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Episode 85
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52:35
How can I stop picking?
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 liste...
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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26:25
Summertime Safety
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 bra...
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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17:46
Afterthoughts with Amy: Should we go to the cabin?
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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15:09
Should we go to the cabin?
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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15:09
Afterthoughts with Amy: Let's Talk About Sex
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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18:00