Personal Journeys with Dementia Can Be Life-Changing on Many Levels
Lori La Bey talks with Jennifer Desserich who is the Founder and Executive Director of Dignify Dementia, a nonprofit organization. Jennifer created after years of being a care partner to her dad, Jim, who was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia with Parkinsonism in 2018. 
Jennifer is a trained public health research scientist and educator, as well as a compassionate advocate for aging adults, but she never expected her family would end up on a journey like this one.  Both she and her mom have been live-in caregivers for Jim since his diagnosis.
Learn:

 How the knowledge you gain on your dementia journey is valuable and helpful to others on this path.
Dignify Dementia Tool Kit

Calendar
Eat Today
Wellness Journal
Medication Tracking
Medical Information Tracking


Dignify Dementia on FaceBook
Dignify Dementia Support Group

 
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https://open.spotify.com/show/255okRnEgfCUqXq1NWcrT3
 
Contact Jennifer Desserich 
Phone  (720) 663-7635
Website  https://dignifydementia.org/  
Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/DignifyDementia/
Facebook Group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/858870218502423/
Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/dignifydementia/
 
Contact Lori La Bey with questions or branding needs at https://alzheimersspeaks.com/ 
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011. Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Health & Fitness

Transforming Dementia Care In Malaysia 
Lori La Bey talks with Dr. Cecilia Chan who has been involved in the eldercare industry for the past 20 years. She is a Gerontologist, a Trainer, a Researcher, and a very passionate Dementia Advocate, and Activist. Dr. Chan has been involved in various projects concerning providing services and facilities to the Malaysian elderly. She initiated a local support group called Living Beyond Dementia for people living with dementia and their loved ones and care partners.
Learn:

 How a good friend's dementia diagnosis developed a deep passion for Dr. Chan to improve dementia care.
 How the Bio-Medical approach to dementia can harm people looking for help.
 The impact of changing societal beliefs and stomping out stigmas.
 The power of religious beliefs and how they impact healing.
 How and where to connect people to services, products, and tools.
Why it is important to change our words to be more respectful to those living with dementia.
 The need for counselors and navigators as well as respite care.
 What is a Pop Up Café?
 How do we improve staff ratios and training?

 
Watch the Video Interview Below
https://youtu.be/JO-uqcmyY7U
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Apple Podcast or Spotify
Below is Access to Other Podcasts
https://pod.link/986940432
  
Contact Dr. Cecilia Chan
Email  cejosh@yahoo.com 
Phone  0134384388
Blog  http//ceciliacwm.wordpress.com  
Instagram   @cejosh 
FaceBook   @Cecilia Chan
YouTube  @ceciliachan554
 
Contact Lori La Bey with questions or branding needs at https://www.alzheimersspeaks.com/
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.
Alzheimer's Speaks is part of the Senior Resource Podcast Network.
  Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transforming Dementia Care In Malaysia

How To Develop A Plan To “Age Successfully” For Yourself Or With Your Parents
This is a replay from Jan 2024
Lori La Bey talks with Star Bradbury who is a former Florida licensed administrator and Executive Director for both an Assisted Living and Memory Care facility, Star has a broad understanding of the variety of options and choices families face. Her 18 years working with a nationally recognized Life Care Community (Oak Hammock at the University of Florida) allows her to share her expertise in this otherwise confusing and complex senior living option as well.
 Star’s insider experience is invaluable to anyone wanting to make sure they know how to choose the right community for a loved one, help their parents age in place successfully, or find more help when their parents need more care.  Her realistic approach is refreshing and her principles to aging well and making crucial decisions can be applied immediately. Most importantly, she will share with you the right questions to ask that are critical during times of need.
As the founder of Senior Living Strategies and the author of Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years, she regularly collaborates and consults with individuals and families from all walks of life as well as professionals in the legal, medical, financial, and long-term care insurance world.
Her passion is to help families develop a comprehensive, proactive plan that will allow them to make the best most informed decisions--for their parents’ well-being and their own.  Having lost both sets of parents, in-laws, a sister, and many friends, she has the compassion and understanding as well as the professional experience to guide you.
Learn:

When should we start having conversations about life as we age?
What is the difference between the go-go years, the slow-go years, and the no-go years?
Red Flags to watch for.

What type of support systems do they have?
Do they have social networks?
Are they isolated?


Two Principals

How can you maximize and prolong your parents or your own independence for the longest period of time?
About just in time planning.


About the Conversation Project https://theconversationproject.org/
How to prepare an exit plan.
What does a good death look like for you or your loved one

 
Watch the Video Interview Below
https://youtu.be/jL6qo3NWB5k
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Apple Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-develop-a-plan-to-age-successfully-for/id986940432?i=1000656219284
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5zfhNWlXkQSUzvEoQRoIUC
 
Other Podcasts
https://pod.link/986940432
 
Contact Star Bradbury
Website - www.starbradbury.com  (FREE info under resources; questions to ask, useful websites, and more)
YouTube: @starbradbury4934
TikTok  @seniorlivingstar (post every 2-3 days with useful tips for families on successful aging) 
BenBella Publishing is offering a 20% discount off both the paperback and the Kindle version of Stars book to our listeners. Use the discount code SPEAKS at BenBella’s website. https://benbellabooks.com/shop/navigating/
Book Link on Amazon: 
https://www.amazon.com/Successfully-Navigating-Parents-Senior-Years/dp/1637742479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=G21EFWY49DSW&keywords;=star+bradbury&qid;=1661896025&sprefix;=star+bradbury%2Caps%2C211&sr;=8-1 
 
Contact Lori La Bey with questions or branding needs at https://www.alzheimersspeaks.com/
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.
Alzheimer's Speaks is part of the Senior Resource Podcast Network.
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How To Develop A Plan To “Age Successfully” For Yourself Or With Your Parents

Heartfelt Engagement: Addressing Loneliness and Dementia
Lori La Bey talks with the co-founders of Memory Keepers. Cheryl Kinney is a licensed clinical social worker, certified life coach, teacher, and therapist with over 35 years of experience working with older adults and caregivers, including 24 years at the Alzheimer’s Association. 
Britt Lueken’s passion for working with older adults started when she began caring for her grandmother with Alzheimer’s. She is a licensed social worker, former Montessori teacher, executive non-profit leader, and entrepreneur.  
Learn:

What is Psychotherapy and what are your beliefs around it?
Do you hold or recognize stigma regarding your mental health or those you care for?
How to reduce or remove isolation and loneliness.
What situations trigger an emotional loss for you and those you care for?
Definition of cognitive stimulation.
What does meaningful engagement mean? How does it differ from daily activities?
Examples of social prescribing and the benefits of it.

Watch the Video Interview Below
https://youtu.be/XEYJrwxSNps
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Apple Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heartfelt-engagement-addressing-loneliness-and-dementia/id986940432?i=1000655794514
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xnslsDL0QKi0pvdcr0i46
Other Podcasts
https://pod.link/986940432
 
Contact Memory Keepers
Email   info@MemoryKeepers.org
Website  https://memorykeepers.org/
LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanylueken/
Facebook   https://www.facebook.com/memorykeepersllc
Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/memorykeepersllc/
YouTube   https://www.youtube.com/@memorykeepers2984
 
Contact Lori La Bey with questions or branding needs at https://www.alzheimersspeaks.com/
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.
Alzheimer's Speaks is part of the Senior Resource Podcast Network. Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heartfelt Engagement: Addressing Loneliness and Dementia

Tips on Connections and Living in Moment From Those Living with Dementia
Today, Craig Hanke, Ginger Smith, Cate Lau Booth, Truthful Loving Kindness, and Wally Cox talk with Dementia Chats host Lori La Bey giving tips on how to live in the moment and build solid connections with people. I think you will find their insights very interesting and hopeful.
Learn More About 
Dementia Chats™ Educational Panel 
Videos Raising Voices of Those Living with Dementia
https://alzheimersspeaks.com/dementia-chats-educational-videos/
Would You Like To Be Part Of The Dementia Chats™ Video Panel?
Dementia Chats™ was created in 2012, with the intention to educate people living with dementia, and their care partners including family, friends, professionals, and advocates.
Dementia Chats™ positions our panelists to be the true experts.  They are those diagnosed with some form of dementia.  Our panelist vary from video to video depending on their personal schedules. New voices are always welcome to join us.
Lori La Bey, the founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks facilitates Dementia Chats.  She learned how essential it was to listen to those diagnosed. Her own mother lived 30 years with dementia. Lori found people living with dementia had great insights and creative ideas for care.  They show us how to be inclusive in new ways.
Being a spokesperson for themselves and others living with dementia positions them as advocates, and many say it gives them a new sense of purpose and pride which allows them to continue to live a dignified and purpose-filled life.
We Meet The 4th Tuesday of Each Month We Gather To Pick A Topic: 
10:30am ET, 9:30am CT, 8:30am MT, 7:30am PT, 3:30pm London,
4:30pm SAST South Africa, and on the following day at 12:30pm AEST Australia
We Start Recording Starts At: 
11am ET, 10am CT, 9am MT, 8am PT, 4pm London
5:00pm SAST South Africa, and on the following day at 1:00pm AEST Australia
Learn More About Dementia Chats Here:
https://alzheimersspeaks.com/dementia-chats-educational-videos/  
Are You Interested In Joining The Dementia Chats™ Panel?
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Tips on Connections and Living in Moment From Those Living with Dementia

#Incontinence #Sound #Sleep 
Lori La Bey talks with Deanna Vigliotta the National Sales Manager for Seni, Dr. Laird the CMO of My Memory Clinic, and Jeff McSpadden the co-founder and CEO at Composure.
Deanna Vigliotta has an extensive 30-year healthcare sales and sales management background. She is the National Sales Manager of Seni, a premium brand of adult incontinence products.  She and her Seni teammates are on a quest to shift the mindset in the USA from adult incontinence products being viewed as disposable commodities to high-performing incontinence products being viewed as a critical component of the continuum of care.
Dr. Laird received her medical degree with honors from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1991. She completed an Internal Medicine residency and Geriatric Fellowship. 
Dr. Laird is a recognized expert in the diagnosis and care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and served for 25 years as a Medical Director for two state of Florida Memory Disorder Clinics (Health First and AdventHealth Maturing Minds).
Dr. Laird is the founder and Chief Medical Officer of My Memory Clinic, a telehealth memory specialty clinic. She is also a Principal Investigator at ClinCloud Research in Viera, Florida focusing on clinical trials for Alzheimer’s disease. She is a community faculty member of the Florida State University Department of Geriatrics.
Dr. Laird is a passionate advocate for the support of family caregivers and co-authored the book Take Your Oxygen First: Preserving Your Health and Happiness While Caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Jeff McSpadden is co-founder and CEO at Composure, an evidence-based, digital audio company that delivers original soundscapes for senior living communities to improve sleep and drive healthy outcomes for
older adults living with dementia. As an entrepreneur, technologist, lifelong musician, and composer, Jeff has dedicated himself to sound as a vital ingredient to human thriving. Prior to launching Composure, Jeff’s 15-year career as a composer included writing and producing original music for film, television, and advertising with clients such as MGM, NBC, CBS, PBS, HBO, and AMC as well as brands ranging from Mercedes-Benz, Verizon, Progressive, Toshiba, and Ford.
Jeff’s career in music began in his hometown of Dallas, TX as a teenager playing trumpet in a range of idioms from jazz to classical to pop and world music. He moved to New York City to attend The New School for Social Research where he graduated with a Bachelor’s in the Performing Arts. Jeff continues to live in NYC where he and his wife are raising their two teenage sons.
Learn:

About Seni and Composure and what products they offer and how they can help you care better.
Find out how these two companies are collaborating to improve sleep.
What is restorative sleep?
How does incontinence can affect sleep and other areas of your health?
How does our sleep affect other factors in our lives?
Explore the importance of picking the correct incontinence product for the different times of day.
Learn how sound can become medicine.
What is a sonic environment and how can it affect your sleep?
The difference between nice to have and need to have.
Combining education with preventive methods can impact on our sleep outcomes for the better.
What is a sound blanket?
What’s the difference between pink and white noise?

 
Watch the Video Interview Below
https://youtu.be/fKZhV_CMlC4
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Apple Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-2-of-what-does-incontinence-sound-and-sleep-have/id986940432?i=1000655044180
Listen and Subscribe to Alzheimer’s Speaks on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/255okRnEgfCUqXq1NWcrT3
Other Podcasts
https://pod.link/986940432
 
Contact TZMO USA, Inc. (Seni Brand)
Deanna Vigliotta, National Sales Manager
Website: https://seni-usa.com/en_US  
Email: deanna.vigliotta@tzmousa.com 
Phone:  470-377-4942
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tzmo-usa-inc 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeniCares, 
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SeniUSACares 
 
Contact My Memory Clinic - Dr Laird
Website  https://www.mymemoryclinic.org/ 
Twitter  https://twitter.com/clinic_memory 
FaceBook  @My Memory Clinic 
LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/company/my-memory-clinic/
#MyMemoryClinic, #ClinCloud
 
Contact Composure Inc.
Jeff McSpadden, Co-founder & CEO
Website  https://www.composure.care/ 
Email jeff@composure.care 
Composure LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/composure-inc
Jeff’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-mcspadden/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/composureinc
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/composure_inc
 
Contact Lori La Bey with questions or branding needs at https://www.alzheimersspeaks.com/
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.
Alzheimer's Speaks is part of the Senior Resource Podcast Network. Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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