Someone’s 80 year old husband, who is living with dementia, is wanting to go to work, travel and take classes and when she goes along with his delusions, he will call her bluff and ask for a ride to the airport and such.  Amy offers some ideas on how to respond in a situation like this. 

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 community by learning from each other’s questions.   

 
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Amy House is a Certified Dementia Practitioner, Licensed Assisted Living Director and PAC Trainer who is recognized in the Twin Cities as a leader in dementia care and education. Amy's personal support, public speaking, and professional training has touched the lives of thousands of people living with dementia over the past 10 years. Amy is also a support group facilitator for the Alzheimer's Association and a Care Navigator for Tembo Health with the Medicare GUIDE dementia program.  

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The Roseville AD and the Ramsey County Library assisted Amy House in the creation of the SilverCrest Staycations.  The staycations are a list of Twin Cities day trips created to empower the care partner with great information on each location and ideas on how to engage.   These day trips are all evaluated by Amy House and the residents at her Memory Care and are to inspire everyone to get out of the house and enjoy their community in the earlier stages of dementia. 

https://silvercrestproperties.com/staycations/ 

The Dementia friendly Airports Working Group is a group of volunteers that formed as a spin-off of the Rosevills Alzheimr's and Dementia Community Action Team in 2019.  Amy House has given time to this since it's beginning and has led initiatives including the creation of short videos by Teepa Snow, OT that discuss how dementia symptoms can happen at the airport and  how to support someone living with dementia while traveling.  Most recently Amy presented at the MSP International Airport to staff of different areas to help them continue to be more dementia friendly.   There are many tips on the website for traveling. 

https://www.dementiafriendlyairports.com/ 

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