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Cognitively Speaking
by LILY WILLIAMS
Do you struggle to understand the intricacies of Dementia/Alzheimer’s or head injury related cognitive impairments? Join Lily Williams as she delves into the intriguing stories and complexities of cognitive impairments with caregivers, persons with a diagnosis, Neurological and Gerontology experts. If you need help understanding the impact of cognitive impairments and want more information, resources, and support this podcast is for you!
Episodes
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Traumatic Brain Injuries
Traumatic brain injuries cause a person to change cognitively. These changes may apply to their behavior, abilities, and intellect. This podcast episode encourages caregivers of those suffering with a traumatic brain injury to use education as a way to better understand and provide care.
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Caregiver negligence and standards of care
The standards of care - when the caregiver has been forced into the role of “caregiver”, or they may not have been given the necessary tools or resources to help them to follow the standards of care, negligence and harm can occur. The caregiver may reach a point that they become mentally unstable...
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Caregiving while receiving sexually inappropriate behaviors from Dementia clients.
🎙This episode provides sound advice to caregivers that are experiencing inappropriate sexual behaviors from their clients with Dementia. Indecent exposure, arousal, verbal unwanted sexual advances, and inappropriate comments and touching can lead to these Dementia patients receiving new sex...
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Alcohol induced Dementia and Aphasia
The documentary “Where is Wendy Williams” has caused a lot of buzz and talk. Heavy alcohol drinking over a long period of time has unfortunately reared its symptoms on the “pop culture radio and Daytime television show Queen”. Some viewers of the documentary say she is reaping what she has sowed,...
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Resources for caregiving today!
🎙In honor of Mrs. Rosalynn Carter, this podcast episode discusses the importance of resources for caregivers. Mrs. Carter was a fierce advocate for those caregivers that needed resources that had obvious disparities in how they were distributed. She worked hard for equal distribution of the...
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Sugar: Sweet thoughts on the brain! 🧠
🎙This podcast episode discusses the effects of sugar on our mental and cognitive capacity as well as the dependency it creates in us, as well as other health issues that develop as a result of excess sugar intake.
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President Joe Biden: Is his age leading to a 🧠 cognitive decline or is it just a number? 🤔
This week’s topic discusses the current United States of America Commander in Chief’s health. Many speculations are being made that he is too old for the job and on the decline cognitively and physically due to his age! This episode will shed some light on the topic and provide some brain candy...
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Advice to new Caregivers from a True Caregiver
Caregiving is a challenge! I want you to be successful at it and push through! The benefits of the care that you provide is immeasurable and is much needed!
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Memories: How are they made and why do we lose them.🤔
This week we will discuss what makes a memory, how exactly memories are made and what makes a person that has a memory impairment unable to make or recall a memory.
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Dementia, faith, and worship.
When a person with dementia is no longer able to worship or perform acts of their spiritual faith or religion should caregivers provide care that is still inclusive of their religious faith and or spirituality?
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Caregiver abuse and ways to deescalate situations
When it comes to protecting yourself and your personal space as a caregiver, you have to be able to identify when your patient is becoming angry. This week’s podcast helps to identify ways to prevent the situation from getting out of control.
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Cognitive impairment in sexual or gender minorities
The LGBTQ + with Dementia is a growing community. This week's podcast episode will discuss some of the ways that cognitive impairment in someone that identifies as LGBTQ + should be cared for by true caregivers.
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Dementia and the loss of language skills.
Losing language skills by reverting back to a native language or converting from the native language to another is apparently very common in persons with dementia. This week’s podcast dives into the many ways that bilingualism and multilingualism may be affected by dementia.
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The primed mind
🎙 On this week’s podcast episode we will discuss some of the information that is primed into our minds during childhood development that we tend to never forget and is embedded into our memory. Dementia patients still have primed information that’ll never leave their memory.
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Does Dementia erase traumatic memories?
Post traumatic stress disorder is a cognitive memory that may cause flashbacks of a traumatic experience that a person has experienced. On this week’s podcast episode we will discuss what happens to those cognitive memories or flashbacks when a person has dementia.
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Amnesia versus Dementia
On this week's podcast episode, we are discussing the differences between amnesia and dementia. Both involve memory loss but are very different and have very different effects on the hippocampus section of our brains. Tune in to find out how.
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Move toward the light!
🎙As a caregiver, we hear the phrase (move toward the light) more often than we should when caring for patients that may be transitioning away from life. This phrase can also take on a new meaning and help caregivers to balance their life and transition into life when it becomes difficult.
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Elder Abuse and its associated risk factors!
As a caregiver, I had to learn early on of the many risk factors that may play a role in and lead up to elder abuse. Some of those risk factors that we need to take into consideration may include psychological well-being, mental health issues, hereditary and traumatic factors, personality...
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Communication: Joining their reality, speaking and listening!
As caregivers of someone with Dementia, or a cognitive impairment we should join their reality. By not correcting them, allows us as caregivers the chance to escape our reality for a little while. We build bonds by reminiscing with them. This can result into peaceful and joyous moments for them…
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You remind me of???? Oxytocin's role in Dementia
On this podcast episode we will discuss the role that the hormone Oxytocin plays in our brain from infantry to elderly, and in those suffering with Dementia. *Please be advised that this episode is graphic in detail to share specific details*.
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Lifelong cognitive impacts of repetitive brain/head trauma
In this week’s podcast episode we will discuss the NFL’s handling of 24 year old Tua Tagovailoa’s on the field head trauma, Muhammad Ali’s Parkinson’s disease and my personal concussion experience.
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The impact of diet and exercise on cognitive function
Following a healthy diet along with exercise has significant benefits to joint mobility, anxiety and brain health. This episode shares caregiving tips on implementing sensory experiences to improve physical, spiritual, and emotional well being for those with or without cognitive decline.
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Caregiving is a job!
Does race, generational values, and cultural values dictate how caregivers provide care or influence how the recipient of the care feels about receiving it?
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We need a fix: Creating proactive, safe and friendly dementia neighborhoods and communities!
We live in a let's fix it society. Everywhere that you turn to look there is someone promoting or selling something with a guarantee to fix something. If you have wrinkles, there is a fix for that. If you have a runny nose, there is a fix for that. If you have what you may consider an ugly nose,...
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Parkinson's Disease with and without Lewy Body Dementia: Peggy Koops interview
A tale of two cities, Parkinson's with and without Lewy Body Dementia. Parkinson's is a disorder that cannot be cured just like dementia. However, it can be treated with medication to control the symptoms of tremors and movement disorders. Parkinson's just like dementia is being diagnosed in...
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Dementia: Will there ever be a cure?
There is no cure for dementia. There are treatments for specific types of dementias, but no cures. Explorations into the brain and its many discoveries and insights about dementia will continue and hopefully one day there will be a cure.
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Power Struggles and caring for someone with Dementia
What does a person that is having a bad day do when they are having a bad day? Most people will cry, pray, eat comfort foods, talk it over with someone they trust, or isolate themselves until they get themselves together so to speak. What does a person with Dementia do when they are having a bad...
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Sundowners Syndrome, Delusions, and Hallucinations: Oh my! What to do?
If you think the loved one you are caring for with Dementia has sundowners, delusions or hallucinations please seek the medical advice from a Neurologist. Neurologists specialize in disorders of the brain and nervous system. They generally have the expertise to diagnose these symptoms and dementia.
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True Caregiver! Caring for the Caregiver
Caring for someone with dementia is life changing. We as caregivers really just want to be heard. We want someone to listen to our stories of caregiver grief, isolation, frustration, and the good times!
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Actions and Reaction: Types of Dementia, symptoms and how they communicate
With all types of dementia, mood and social skills are highly impacted. It is not just their memory and behavior. However, as caregivers we need to understand that their behaviors may be actions or reactions towards us. The behaviors can be positive or negative. These actions or reactions may be...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Do you struggle to understand the intricacies of Dementia/Alzheimer’s or head injury related cognitive impairments? Join Lily Williams as she delves into the intriguing stories and complexities of cognitive impairments with caregivers, persons with a diagnosis, Neurological and Gerontology experts. If you need help understanding the impact of cognitive impairments and want more information, resources, and support this podcast is for you!
HOSTED BY
LILY WILLIAMS
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Do you struggle to understand the intricacies of Dementia/Alzheimer’s or head injury related cognitive impairments? Join Lily Williams as she delves into the intriguing stories and complexities of cognitive impairments with caregivers, persons with a diagnosis, Neurological and Gerontology experts....
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