Dementia Decoded

Bianca Padilla is joining me today; she is a caregiver and one of the company's founders, Carewell. When Bianca Padilla began helping care for her grandmother after hip surgery, she realized she had no idea what to do. She wasn't alone: There are 53 million inexperienced family caregivers in the U.S. In 2017, she and her husband started Carewell, selling walkers, adult diapers, grab bars, and other items to caregivers.

However, Carewell is more than a place to buy supplies. Bianca aims to make the site a community where caregivers can learn and get personalized service and expert-vetted home care products. Understanding what caregivers need is the guiding force behind what Bianca and her husband are growing. There is a lot of work to be done, support to give, and technological innovations needed, and she's here to help get us to where we need to be as a society.

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With me on the show this week is Dr. David Bernstein. He is a board-certified geriatrician. His 40 years of experience have allowed him to observe, empathize and guide thousands of adults and generations of families as they mature. After a frank conversation with a patient about why he stopped driving and suddenly moved out of state, Dr. Bernstein dedicated some time to writing Senior Driving Dilemmas. Are you dreading “the talk” with your parents or grandparents regarding their safety and the safety of others on the roads? Then this episode and book are for you! Both are informational guides to families, helping them understand the complexities of senior driving. Unravel the nuances of the problems that you might face as you cautiously transition your loved one from behind the wheel.

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On the podcast this week is Valene Campbell. She calls herself a changemaker for her passions, children's literature, and Alzheimer's disease awareness.

After vacationing with her mother in 2016, Valene observed her Mom's increasing forgetfulness, confusion, and irritability. Valene knew immediately upon their return home that her mother required a physical assessment. This life-altering circumstance led her to write her third children's book with a lead Black character to demystify dementia and Alzheimer's within the Black community. The story, The Amazing Zoe and Grandma's Memory Box, also educate children whose families are impacted by dementia and who often participate in the caregiving of a grandparent or loved one. The Amazing Zoe & Grandma's Memory box is a heartfelt and touching story designed to help kids understand Alzheimer's Disease.

Zoe loves to visit her grandma! But this time, she can't help but feel that something is different. Her grandma has forgotten to bake Zoe's favorite cookies, and sometimes she forgets Zoe's name! But luckily, Zoe's Mom is there to help her learn all about Alzheimer's Disease. Zoe even devises a clever and creative way to help her grandma remember all her most treasured memories.

You can learn more about Valene and her speaking engagements by visiting her website. https://valenecampbell.com or www.theamazingzoe.co

Finding quality advice for the advanced stages of Alzheimer's can be challenging.

Caring for someone with advanced Alzheimer's disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you're on a hamster wheel – running in circles, trying the same things repeatedly with no effect on your loved one. You may find it challenging to connect with your loved one ad to understand what those living with Alzheimer's disease are going through. The Busy Caregivers Guide to Advanced Alzheimer's Disease gives you a model designed to help you understand, cope with, and handle some of the most challenging behaviors associated with this disease. This guide provides you with tools to be encouraging while reinforcing independence and quality of life for your loved one.

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Stelter and I discuss advice on managing many common challenges in your caregiving. The following episode discusses specific challenges you may encounter and ways to tackle them in the most positive way possible.

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Caring for someone with advanced Alzheimer’s disease is a challenge. It can make you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel – running in circles, trying the same things over and over with no effect on your loved one. You may find it challenging to connect with your loved one ad to understand what those living with Alzheimer’s disease are going through. The Busy Caregivers Guide to Advanced Alzheimer’s Disease gives you a model designed to help you understand, cope with, and handle some of the most challenging behaviors associated with this disease. This guide provides you with tools to be encouraging while reinforcing independence and quality of life for your loved one.

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Stelter and I discuss her dementia connection model and how to use it in your caregiving. The following episode discusses specific challenges you may encounter and ways to tackle them in the most positive way possible.

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NeuroReserve – Helping Our Brainspan Match our Lifespan

Breeda Miller was an accidental caregiver. Like most of us, she had no training or medical background. She didn't know what she didn't know. She knew she loved her mom, who could no longer live alone. So she moved Mom in with her entire family. For nearly eight years, they cared for her. It was good until it wasn't.

Breeda learned much during those years, including hospice care in her home. Living in the Sandwich Generation taught her more about life than she could ever have imagined. Now Breeda shares those life lessons with others who need help navigating this challenging time.

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Back with us today are Mike & Kim Barnes of Parenting Aging Parents. If you missed their first episode with me, Balancing It All, be sure to listen to that one next.

Kim has had to find solutions to prevent her Mom from being scammed again. Scams are a topic I haven't covered before, and we all must understand how to minimize and protect our families from financial losses due to scams.

Older adults are particularly vulnerable to scams. Various investment scams tend to cause the most significant losses for seniors, averaging $17,172 stolen per senior aged 70 to 79. Another high-cost scam for seniors (mainly those 80 or over) is a romance scam, resulting in $10,000 lost per person.

Find Mike & Kim here www.raisingagingparents.com

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Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on palliating a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering.

Unfortunately, many caregivers hesitate too long to bring this vital service to their loved ones. While it's much more challenging to know when the time is correct when dealing with dementia, it's a service we need to understand and utilize.

On the show today is Helen Bauer, RN. Helen is one of the hosts of The Heart of Hospice podcast, but she's also an end-of-life trainer, hospice advocate, and more. She's an excellent guest to teach us about hospice when caring for someone with cognitive impairment. Find Helen here:

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Another story about a caregiver who creates something based on their experiences. His father’s actions inspired founder Art Shaikh before his passing, which moved him to develop new technology. 

Art’s father had given him this box filled with family movies, hand-written cards, and old photographs, and he asked Art to deliver these to family members on his behalf once he was no longer alive. At the time, his father was healthy. He was just preparing for the future, but Art’s father unexpectedly passed away a year later.

In this episode, I talk to Lisa Roti about CircleIt and how caregivers can use it for more than was originally dreamed of by its founder. You can find the app here https://circleit.com

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Over the past five years, Mike and Kim Barnes found themselves navigating problems they never saw coming from their parents: Alzheimer's, pacemakers, COVID pneumonia, and the tough decision to move parents into retirement communities.

They've learned to balance the many facets of parenting aging parents, including medical, financial, and everyday-life decisions, emotional rollercoasters, protecting their parents from scams, and more, all while parenting their college-age kids and building their careers.

When you're helping your aging parents, there can be so much confusion, so many unknowns, so much jargon – it's hard even to know what to "google" for answers!

They get it! Mike's mom has Alzheimer's, his dad is in his 80s, and Kim's mom is also in her 80s. It's a journey we know others are going through, too. That's why we want to provide access to experts, share resources, and build a community so that we know the right questions to ask, what services and assistance are available and how to find them.

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​Life is a journey, and at Pharma-C-Wipes, we provide products that support you at each twist and turn. 

PicnicHealthhttp://picnichealth.com/memories: 

Your medical records are now in your hands. PicnicHealth collects, digitizes, and encrypts all your medical records—then arranges everything in one intuitive timeline. No need to worry about a doctor's note or the lab results. It's all there for easy reference, right when you need it.

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