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11. More Than A Memory
This episode is dedicated to someone I love dearly. Don't worry my friend, I am holding our memories tightly; I carry them with me in this work and every day. I love you.
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Christy sits down with Lori Rizzo of Compassionate Crossings, her go-to voice on dementia care, to say the hard things plainly. Dementia is terminal, and it is more than memory loss.
Lori Rizzo shows up for the moments when everything feels uncertain ... as an end-of-life doula, dementia specialist, and grief companion. She supports people when a serious illness is diagnosed, dementia reshapes everything, death is close, and when families feel lost and overwhelmed. She offers steady guidance, education, and a grounded, calming presence.
Lori is also a community lead for Dementia Friendly Montgomery County, a volunteer grassroots initiative on a mission to change how communities understand, talk about, and show up for people living with dementia.
If you love someone living with dementia, this one is for you.
In this episode
00:00 — The calling came first. Lori's slow path from corporate life into death work
06:00 — How a career in learning, leadership, and communication carries into the work
13:00 — How dementia became central to Lori's practice
16:30 — Three things Lori wishes people knew.
22:00 — What stigma and silence cost a family
25:30 — What becomes possible when you get ahead of it instead of waiting for a crisis
29:00 — Brain health, cognitive baselines, and the case for a dementia advance directive
34:00 — Dementia is not instinctive, and nobody hands you a roadmap
37:30 — Story time. Sundowning, folding the towels, and prayer
43:00 — The grief caregivers carry in private, and the guilt they rarely say out loud
47:00 — How to show up for a caregiver. Presence, not perfection
50:30 — A message for the person in the thick of it, plus placement guilt and support groups
54:00 — Hope that changes shape, and finding joy in what remains
57:00 — Where to find Lori
Links
Compassionate Crossings (Lori Rizzo): https://www.compassionatecrossingsdoula.comDaughterhood: https://daughterhood.orgDaughterhood Circle Leaders (Lori's page): https://daughterhood.org/meet-the-circle-leaders/
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By Christy B.This episode is dedicated to someone I love dearly. Don't worry my friend, I am holding our memories tightly; I carry them with me in this work and every day. I love you.
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Christy sits down with Lori Rizzo of Compassionate Crossings, her go-to voice on dementia care, to say the hard things plainly. Dementia is terminal, and it is more than memory loss.
Lori Rizzo shows up for the moments when everything feels uncertain ... as an end-of-life doula, dementia specialist, and grief companion. She supports people when a serious illness is diagnosed, dementia reshapes everything, death is close, and when families feel lost and overwhelmed. She offers steady guidance, education, and a grounded, calming presence.
Lori is also a community lead for Dementia Friendly Montgomery County, a volunteer grassroots initiative on a mission to change how communities understand, talk about, and show up for people living with dementia.
If you love someone living with dementia, this one is for you.
In this episode
00:00 — The calling came first. Lori's slow path from corporate life into death work
06:00 — How a career in learning, leadership, and communication carries into the work
13:00 — How dementia became central to Lori's practice
16:30 — Three things Lori wishes people knew.
22:00 — What stigma and silence cost a family
25:30 — What becomes possible when you get ahead of it instead of waiting for a crisis
29:00 — Brain health, cognitive baselines, and the case for a dementia advance directive
34:00 — Dementia is not instinctive, and nobody hands you a roadmap
37:30 — Story time. Sundowning, folding the towels, and prayer
43:00 — The grief caregivers carry in private, and the guilt they rarely say out loud
47:00 — How to show up for a caregiver. Presence, not perfection
50:30 — A message for the person in the thick of it, plus placement guilt and support groups
54:00 — Hope that changes shape, and finding joy in what remains
57:00 — Where to find Lori
Links
Compassionate Crossings (Lori Rizzo): https://www.compassionatecrossingsdoula.comDaughterhood: https://daughterhood.orgDaughterhood Circle Leaders (Lori's page): https://daughterhood.org/meet-the-circle-leaders/