Think Dementia

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...

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 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 relationshi...

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 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 ...

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 overnight.

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 que...

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 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 par...

Amy discusses common sexual situations that may present when someone is living with dementia and their ability to consent to sexual contact and sexual acts. 

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 relatio...

In this follow up episode to #76 on Late Stage Dementia, Amy House, C.D.P.  gives some more information regarding tools and resources that can help with the physical demands of caregiving for someone in the last stages 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 t...

A husband asks how he can learn to reminisce with his wife on the go such as in the car, while in the waiting room at an appointment or out running errands to keep her mind occupied during downtime. 

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...

This episode is a podcast version of a Tembo Health Share and Care Webinar that Amy House did in 2025 helping caregivers understand what happens to the brain and body and what care someone will need in the later stages of their 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 l...

Joe from Louisville, Kentucky asks Amy if a person who has dementia loses their sense of humor or if it remains unchanged.   Amy tells some heartwarming stories of celebrating humor with a disease where it can be hard to find moments to chuckle. 

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 he...

While someone is enrolling their loved one living with dementia into the hospice program they sometimes wonder, “do I really need a hospital bed?”  Amy breaks down some good reasons to consider having a hospital bed for both the hospice patient and for the caregivers. 

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...