Dementia Resilience with Jill Lorentz

Dementia Resilience with Jill Lorentz

By Jill LorentzEducationSelf-Improvement
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Dementia Resilience with Jill Lorentz episodes

  • DRwJL – Caregiver’s Share How They Move On After Losing a Spouse to ALZ/FTD

    The show today is a little longer than usual because I had two very special guest in the house. My friends Cherie Conway and Deborah Gardiner were kind enough to join me in the studio today to talk about their husbands and their journey with different types of dementia’s. Both women were caregivers for their husbands, Tim and Ken, who had younger onset with Alzheimer’s and Frontal Temporal dementia.









    Both Cherie and Deborah had an extraordinary journey of trials and tribulations, and joy, but their love stories with the men, loves of their lives, will stir the emotions in your heart as you listen to this podcast.
    were kind enough to join me in the studio today to talk about their husbands and their journey with different types of dementia’s. Both women were caregivers for their husbands, Tim and Ken, who had younger onset with Alzheimer’s and Frontal Temporal dementia.





    They chronicle the history of their lives, their families;

    who they were before and after their loved ones were diagnosed with dementia’s.
    It’s a heartwarming conversation about love and loss, and the struggles to
    maintain your identity, sense of self and positive self-esteem. Finding purpose
    in their lives today, as they are living lives, they didn’t expect and in ways
    they didn’t anticipate, and the changes that have come since their husbands
    have passed away recently.





    Their stories of hope, resilience, and going forward from

    here, is inspiring to me and I hope to others. They share their bravery, their
    tears, their anxieties, and their hopes for the future.





    Starting over is never easy and these ladies may not have

    all the answers, but they are doing their best to go forward from here. Their
    journey of moving on without Tim and Ken is not going to be easy, but they are
    up to the challenge.





    I hope you enjoy listening to their journey, and the way

    they candidly share their deepest thoughts, emotions, and insights. Getting
    through grief is never easy, but these ladies are doing everything they can to
    get up in the morning, breathe in-breathe out, and put 1 foot in front of the
    other to begin each day. They’ve had to learn things they never expected, like
    living alone or how to sell their home. Removing the possessions of their loved
    one as they prepare to move. Learning how to start a snowblower and finding
    moments of peace. Being able to enjoy others company as well as enjoying their
    own company and alone time.





    There is nothing easy about being a caregiver! There is

    nothing easy when the love of your life has a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or Frontal
    Temporal. There is nothing easy when they are young and contract this disease.
    There is nothing easy when you’re confronted with dreams that are lost. There
    is nothing easy about watching your grandchildren grow up without your husband
    by your side enjoying it with you. This was not how it was meant to be. What is
    the new normal? Where do I go from here? How do I move on? How do I enjoy
    another man’s company? How do I live in this house without my husband?





    We think the caregiving part is hard, moving on from

    caregiving can be almost as hard. We have to start again, we need to know how
    to begin. I hope you enjoy this candid conversation with Cherie and Deborah,  and wish them well as they go forward from
    here!





    Jill Lorentz

    58 min
  • DRwJL – Health Care in Rural Areas -Riveting Conversation on Why We Need to Make Changes!
    The Healthier Rural West Summit is an inaugural event for health and healthcare stakeholders who want to impact the future of rural health. The 2019 Summit is being held March 19-21 and features both mainstage panels and two breakout tracks featuring more than 60 industry leading speakers and over 30 sessions.

    The Summit will draw 400 rural healthcare providers, public leaders in local and state government, education, community advocacy organizations and business and technology leaders. In a highly participative format, the event will debate, discuss and formulate success strategies for creating well-being in the West through inspiring talks, interactive sessions, panel discussions and networking.

     

    Evon Holladay & Jill Lorentz discussing Healthier Rural West Summit



     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Health care in the United States has reached an all time expensive high, as the one on one care is often disappearing! I will be there with my panel to talk about the prevalence of TASK centered care in nursing homes and why it MUST CHANGE to Person Centered Care in order to provide the best care possible for our loved ones. My panel includes, Dee Reda, Community Services Section Manager
    Home and Community Facilities Branch of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and Stacie Naslund, Executive Director of Spring Ridge Park Assisted Living - A Memory Care Community owned and operated by Continuum Health. Stacie's property is more than a memory unit, She works to help people with Alzheimer's and other dementia's to Live, not to Die. Her staff takes resident's out for dinner, to the movie's, has a Friday night Mocktail Evening. They have resident lead activities. It is a concept every community should have, but rather, is the exception. Dee Reda and her CDPHE group have enacted new and sweeping changes for care communities/nursing homes who work with anyone with memory loss and more. new State Regulations passed April 18, 2018 were the 1st in 34 years and should be celebrated by families looking for better care!

    One of the most critical and underreported health crises in the United States today is individual and community health and well-being in the rural American West. Although rural health care is deficient everywhere in the United States, nowhere more so than in the West, where considerations of distance, lack of sufficient number of qualified health providers, culture, economic status, education, and environment pose special challenges.

    But poorly nuanced policy, underfunded public health, rising healthcare costs, and disparities in access to care are exacerbating poor health outcomes in rural areas, increasing poverty, an aging population, antiquated educational approaches, and a rapidly changing environment now pose imminent challenges to the health and wellness in the rural America West and beyond.

    The Healthier Rural West Summit’s Core Objectives and Key Results are:
    1. Assemble civic, faith, healthcare and citizen leadership at the community, county, state, regional and federal level to address current rural health’s critical issues from a 360 degree perspective

    2. Present, in an engaging manner, proven best practices and lessons learned in transforming health needs to well-being in rural communities

    3. Provide experiential learning by using a presentation format where attendees are given time to conceptualize and visualize how best practices can work in their community

    4. In closure of Summit identify minimum of 5 new initiatives for incubation

    5. Define next steps needed for leaders to achieve their health transformation objectives
    59 min
  • DrwJL Straight Talk About Early Stage Memory Loss

    Showing the love and compassion of Valentine’s week, I wanted to have a candid conversation about how memory loss starts and how it affects everyone connected to it. I give some examples of the first stages and remind us all how patience is a virtue. When the world is spinning out of your control, how do you ask for help? As the person you love is losing their memory how is your role changing? Grab a cup of coffee and learn all you can to be resilient!


    30 min
  • DRwJL Dealing with Difficulties like Driving, Firearms

    My husband Jim Lorentz, who is a Division Chief of Police in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, joins me to discuss issues such as wandering, difficult behaviors, firearms in the home. We discuss issues such as driving privileges and when is it no longer safe to drive when cognitive impairment is present.


    31 min
  • DrwJL – A Man with Parkinson’s Tells Us His Story Of What It’s Like Pt 2

    This week my guest is Greg Layer, a wonderful person who recognized signs of tremors in his foot when he was just 25, and received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease by age 29. He has lived resiliently with this disease for 24 years. Greg talks about his trials, tribulations and moments of enlightenment and joy. Please listen as the brave, articulate and eloquent man shares his story,

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  • DRwJL – A Man with Parkinson’s Tells Us His Story of What It’s Like- PT 1

    This week my guest is Greg Layer, a wonderful person who recognized signs of tremors in his foot when he was just 25, and received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease by age 29. He has lived resiliently with this disease for 24 years. Greg talks about his trials, tribulations and moments of enlightenment and joy. Please listen as the brave, articulate and eloquent man shares his story,

    31 min
  • DRwJL Understanding Parkinson’s Disease

    My show this week, January 28, 2018 is all about my friends with Parkinson’s. I am sheading light on Parkinson’s disease, some myths, and again sharing my admiration for how those living with this disease are my hero’s. Did you know not all people with Parkinson's have rest tremors? there are two different types of Parkinson's and we explore these avenue's. Why do some have freezing issues, or hallucinations? Listen and learn what is myth and what is truth.





    Jill & Jodi Brown from the Parkinson's Association of the Rockies
    29 min
  • DRwJL What Tax Deductions Can Caregivernation Utilize?

    My guest today, January 2019, Klaralee Charleton is one of my favorites. She is here once again to provide us with helpful information about what we can take off on our taxes regarding medical, caregivers, in home care and more. She also discusses ramifications for selling and gifting a home. Klaralee is awesome and her information can help all our friends! You can find the entire document outlining possible deductions on my website front page under KEEPING YOU INFORMED.

    31 min

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Topics include Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lewy Body and living with other Dementia’s