In this Afterthoughts with Amy the host talks about a presentation she saw with Lori La Bey, a Twin Cities dementia advocate and educator about denial. This was timely as the episode where a listener asked how to deal with spouse who is in denial was a week before Amy House saw Lori present, providing further insight into why someone might be in denial.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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.

Recording of Lori La Bey's presentation at Roseville City Hall in MN:

https://ninenorth.org/videos/dementia-caring-coping-9-10-24/

Dementia Map

www.dementiamap.com

Alzheimer's Speaks Podcast

www.alzheimersspeaks.com

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In this episode a listener asks how to handle a situation where the spouse is in denial that his wife has signs of dementia. Amy met this listener at the Caregiving for People with Memory Loss conference in 2024 who has in-laws in their 80s.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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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For National FTD Awareness Week (9/22) Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia. Each week Amy covers a different type and variant of FTD. In this episode she talks about Progressive Supranuclear Palsy which is a movement disorder in the FTD family.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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.

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

www.theaftd.org

The Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/progressive-supranuclear-palsy/symptoms-causes/syc-20355659

University of California San Fransisco

https://memory.ucsf.edu/dementia/progressive-supranuclear-palsy

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For National FTD Awareness Week (9/22) Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia. Each week Amy covers a different type and variant of FTD. In this episode she talks about Corticobasal Syndrome, a neurodegenerative disease that affects the muscles, looks similar to Parkinson’s disease but is in the FTD family.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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.

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

www.theaftd.org

The Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/corticobasal-degeneration/symptoms-causes/syc-20354767

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For National FTD Awareness Week (9/22) Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia. Each week Amy covers a different type and variant of FTD. In this episode she talks about ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that affects the muscles, but a small percentage of those with ALS also have FTD.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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.

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

www.theaftd.org

The Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20354022

ALS Association

https://www.als.org/blog/what-ftd-and-how-it-connected-als

ALS Therapy Development Institute

https://www.als.net/news/frontotemporal-dementia-vs-als/

MLB.com and YouTube Gehrig delivers his famous speech at Yankee Stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNLKPaThYkE

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For National FTD Awareness Week (9/22) Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia. Each week Amy covers a different type and variant of FTD. In this episode she talks about one of the types that starts with problems with language, the non-fluent agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia or nfvPPA FTD. Amy highlights a YouTube channel that a gentleman with FTD is using to share his love and expertise of music with others living with dementia. A special thanks to Peter and Elka for letting Think Dementia tell you about how he is finding purpose and continuing to use the skills he has to his friends far and near living with dementia.

You can search YouTube for Peter’s Classical for Dementia Friends or click this link:

https://www.youtube.com/@PetersClassicalforDementiaFrie/featured

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com 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.

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-frontotemporal-disorders

/static/5c58f031ca525b5425959a77/t/5c663cfcfa0d600c4f412f0f/1550204183276/ftd-toolkit-1-what-is-ftd.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699306/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215934/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22522-corticobasal-degeneration

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21075-frontotemporal-dementia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/frontal-variant-frontotemporal-dementia

www.theaftd.org

www.teepasnow.com

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For National FTD Awareness Week Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia. Each week Amy is covering a different type and variant of FTD. In this episode she talks about one of the types that starts with problems with understanding and producing language, the Semantic Variant or svFTD.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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.

National Institute of Health

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-frontotemporal-disorders

Australian Government handout "What is FTD?"

/static/5c58f031ca525b5425959a77/t/5c663cfcfa0d600c4f412f0f/1550204183276/ftd-toolkit-1-what-is-ftd.pdf

NIH, National Library of Medicine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699306/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443960/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215934/

Cleveland Clinic

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22522-corticobasal-degeneration

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21075-frontotemporal-dementia

Science Direct

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/frontal-variant-frontotemporal-dementia

Signs of lacking empathy- Live Bold and Bloom

https://liveboldandbloom.com/11/emotional-abuse/lacking-empathy-signs

The Association for Frontaltemporal Degeneration

www.theaftd.org

The Mayo Clinic- Dr. Howie Rosen

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737

www.teep

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For National FTD Awareness Week Amy provides education and awareness on Frontotemporal Degeneration- the 4th leading cause of dementia.

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.

Amy House records and produces 100% of this podcast on her own, in her free time, to help others.
To support the Think Dementia podcast go to www.buymeacoffee.com/ThinkDementia

To record a question for the podcast go to www.think-dementia.com

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.

National Institute of Health

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/what-are-frontotemporal-disorders

Australian Government handout "What is FTD?"

/static/5c58f031ca525b5425959a77/t/5c663cfcfa0d600c4f412f0f/1550204183276/ftd-toolkit-1-what-is-ftd.pdf

NIH, National Library of Medicine

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8699306/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443960/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215934/

Cleveland Clinic

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22522-corticobasal-degeneration

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21075-frontotemporal-dementia

Science Direct

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/frontal-variant-frontotemporal-dementia

Signs of lacking empathy- Live Bold and Bloom

https://liveboldandbloom.com/11/emotional-abuse/lacking-empathy-signs

The Association for Frontaltemporal Degeneration

www.theaftd.org

The Mayo Clinic- Dr. Howie Rosen

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frontotemporal-dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354737

www.teepasnow.com

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