Happy Healthy Caregiver

I am a Dementia Caregiver

Over 25% of the 53 million family caregivers in the US are caring for a person with some form of dementia*. Dementia is a condition that results from brain disease and progresses through various stages. It’s most common in older adults and interferes with activities of daily living. Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia. There are several other types including: vascular, lewy body, fronto-temporal, and mixed.

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Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, Episode 184: Exploring Alzheimer’s Treatments with Dr. Zahydie Burgos Ribot

Exploring Alzheimer's Treatments

Dr. Zahydie L. Burgos Ribot cares for her husband, Francisco, also known as Pako, who is living with Young Onset Familial Alzheimer’s Disease. In this episode, Zahydie and Pako share their caregiving journey. They talk about how they took time to understand and cope with Pako’s diagnosis and process their feelings of grief before telling others. They also discuss Pako’s treatment, including E2814 therapy and Leqembi medication, which help slow down Pako’s Alzheimer’s. They talk about how they focus on living each day with intention and enjoy crossing off things from their bucket list.

Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast, Episode 182: Talking to Kids about Dementia with Alder Allensworth

Talking to Kids about Dementia

Alder Allensworth cared for her mother who had Alzheimer’s and her father who had vascular dementia. Alder’s inspiration to co-create a children’s tool kit for families came from watching her mother interact with her grandchildren. In this episode of the Happy Healthy Caregiver podcast, we talk about the resources Alder and her friend Brenda created to help children better understand dementia. Alder shares the benefits of having structure in our days, how a continuing care retirement community was the right fit for her parents for a while, how FMLA allowed her to be present for her parents in their final weeks, and what her daily energizing self-care practices look like.

Happy Healthy Caregiver Podcast. Episode 130: Teepa Snow - Communicating with Persons with Dementia & Developmental Disabilities

Communicating with Persons with Dementia

Meet Teepa Snow. In this show, we learn how Teepa’s experience caring for grandparents shaped her career focus, the language and visual cues to use to better communicate with our care partner, her self-care rituals, where she obtains her trusted dementia information, how her training may also help better communicate with persons with developmental disabilities, and the story of how she got the name ‘Teepa’.

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Source: AARP and The National Alliance for Caregiving report: Caregiving in the US 2020

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