Preparing Young Adults for a Family Member’s Dementia: Four Essential Tips
When a close family member is diagnosed with dementia, it can be uniquely challenging for young adults to navigate this new reality. We are Nancy and Merritt Treaster. When Merritt was in his early twenties, his dad, who was 60 at the time, was diagnosed with Frontotemporal dementia. A few short years later, his grandfather, at the age of 85, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Merritt’s experiences led us to create this episode to help other young adults. He has distilled his thoughts on how to be better prepared into four essential tips for young adults facing a family member’s dementia diagnosis.
Home Safety: Three Essential Tips / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
We are Nancy Treaster and Sue Ryan. Through our experiences as caregivers for our family members and loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, we’ve learned ensuring home safety is both vitally important and ever-changing. In this post, we’re sharing three main tips for managing safety — both inside and outside the home. These help you keep your loved one safe while giving you peace of mind.
Leaving Your Care Receiver Alone: Six Essential Tips / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
You’re going to wish you knew about the fifth tip for managing your loved one’s independence much earlier! As caregivers for family with Alzheimer’s and other dementias, we’ve learned that leaving them at home alone can be a challenging and anxiety-inducing experience. In this post, we’ll share strategies for maintaining their independence while ensuring their safety. We are Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster, and through our experiences, we’ve developed six tips to help you navigate this temporary phase of your caregiving journey.
Removing Driving Privileges: Four Essential Tips / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
If you can successfully leverage tip one in this episode you will have an easy path to taking away the car keys. As caregivers for our husbands, parents, and other loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, we both learned that taking away the car keys can be a sensitive and important issue to address. In the beginning stages of dementia, our primary goal is to balance safety with our care receivers’ desire for independence. We are Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster, and through our experiences, we’re offering four key tips.
Wandering: Ten Essential Tips / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
I wish I had known about this child proofing tip before I spent so much money on locksmiths. In this episode we talk about wandering. As caregivers for family with Alzheimer’s and other dementias, we’ve learned that wandering is a complex and often frightening behavior that requires careful management. Wandering can occur both inside and outside the home, during day or night, and each scenario presents unique challenges. We are Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster, and through our experiences, we have four tips to address wandering while maintaining our loved ones’ dignity as well as ensuring their safety.
Communication – in the Beginning: Four Essential Tips / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias / Practical Tips and Candid Conversations
You are going to wish you knew about the third tip in this episode much earlier! As caregivers for our husbands, parents, and other loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, we’ve learned that communication is a constantly evolving process. In the beginning (the early season of the diagnosis), our primary goal is to help our care receivers maintain as much dignity and independence as possible. We are Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster, and through our experiences, we’ve developed four tips to help you communicate.
Memory Loss: Four Essential Tips / Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Does it feel like a punch in the gut every time you realize something new your loved one has forgotten? As caregivers for our husbands, parents, and other loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, we’ve learned that memory loss in the early stages is a challenging journey. In the beginning (the early season of the diagnosis), our primary goal is to help our care receivers maintain as much dignity and independence as possible while providing support behind the scenes. We are Sue Ryan and Nancy Treaster, and through our experiences, we have four main tips that we’d like to share with you.
Meet Our Podcast Team – Why a Podcast for Dementias Family Caregivers
We are Sue Ryan, Nancy Treaster, and Merritt Treaster. In this episode we’re introducing ourselves to you and sharing why we are so passionate about bringing you practical tips and candid conversations for Alzheimer’s and other dementia family caregivers. Watch Meet Our Podcast Team – Why a Podcast for Dementias Family Caregivers.
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