Think 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 the barriers to letting someone else care for your loved one, whether paid or unpaid, some caregivers feel it is more stressful.  Here are some ideas on how to reduce that stress as well as some ideas on what you can delegate to ot...

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 different than other types of caregiving and what makes it so challenging. 

Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questio...

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 Think Dementia out there each week and appreciation for all the listeners who have helped the podcast grow.

Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the br...

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 AARP provides. 

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 questio...

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 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 lif...

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 episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better quality of life, improved relationships and empowered care partners.  Be part of a connected community by learn...

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 some ideas on how to Think 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 u...

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 Snow trained Amy House in how dementia changes the brain and this information was a game changer in how Amy communicates and solves challenges with people living with dementia.  Amy gives some exa...

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 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 empowered care partner...

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 situations. 

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 ...

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 hard to forget those moments even years after caregiving. 

Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Eac...

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 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 relationship...

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 for their friend living with dementia that is taking things out of other resident’s rooms.  Amy lends her experience as a former Director of Memory Care and explains Teepa Snow’s Positive App...

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 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 l...

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 that he has been receiving treatment for NPH. 

Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This podcast has recorded questions from listeners.  Each ep...

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 these appointments as a busy caregiver and how it might be easier to do things differently.

Amy House, C.D.P. guides care partners in understanding how dementia affects the brain. This p...

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 box!

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...

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, what hospice is, the benefits of hospice, the misconceptions and when it is time to consider hospice.  This is going to be hard but Amy will do her best to prepare you so that you can focus ...

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 listeners.  Each episode, Amy unpacks their questions and helps you learn to “think dementia.” This leads to better quality of life, improved relationships and empowered care partners.  Be part of a connected...