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Make Dementia Your B*tch! — 81 episodes

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Episode 81: Apathy Not Depression
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Episode 80: How Much Info to Share with People Living with Dementia

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Episode 79: Guiding Lights--Navigating Holiday Moments in Dementia Care

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Dementia, Law Enforcement, and Genetic Testing

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Episode 77: How to Handle Frequent Crying Behaviors in People Living with Dementia

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Episode 76: Becoming Your Own Dementia Expert

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Episode 75: How Difficult Family Dynamics Can F*ck With Dementia Caregiving

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Episode 74: Avoiding Arguments and Knowing When to Step In

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Episode 73: Vacations, Travel, and Dementia

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Episode 72: Handling Conflicts Between Residents in Memory Units, Importance of Early Dementia Diagnosis, and Bruce Wills' FTD announcement

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Episode 71: Preventable Dementia and a Valentine's Day Message

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Episode 70: Alzheimer's "Cures" and Miracle Memory Pills

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Episode 69: Why Does My Family Member with Dementia Say Mean and Hurtful Things to Me?

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Episode 68: Using the "Caregiver Vibes" Strategy for Care Refusals

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Episode 67: Weight Loss and Dementia

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Episode 66: Behavioral-variant Frontotemporal Dementia

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Episode 65: Holiday Survival Strategies for Dementia Caregivers

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Episode 64: Apathy in Different Dementias

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Episode 63: Why Does My Family Member's Dementia Look Differently? Cognitive Reserve

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Episode 62: A Variation of Alzheimers--Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia

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Episode 61: Feeling Disconnected from People living with Dementia

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Episode 60: Down Syndrome and Dementia

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Episode 59: Slowing Down the Loss of Procedural Memories

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Episode 58: What People Living with Dementia Want You to Know (formerly the 10 Commandments of Dementia/FTD Care)

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Episode 57: Decoding "I want to go home!"

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Episode 56: Sexual Behavior and Dementia

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Episode 55 FTD and Primary Progressive Aphasias

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Episode 54: Caregiver "Vibes" Affect Behavior in People living with Dementia

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Episode 53: Wandering Behavior in People Living With Dementia

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Episode 52: Challenges Facing Employed Dementia Care Partners in a Post-Covid World

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Episode 51: Spousal Caregivers of People Living with Dementia--Advice from Dr. Gloria Lee

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Episode 50: Dealing with "Stubborn" and "Mean" Dementia Behaviors: Tips and Approaches

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Episode 49: Q and A with Dr. J--"Can a facility refuse to accept my loved one with dementia?" and Other Questions

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Episode 48: My Family Member With Dementia Only Wants Care From Me And No One Else!

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Episode 47: Being Your Authentic Self by Using the "Entering Their Reality" Approach to Handle Dementia Behaviors

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Episode 46: Placement Decisions--Nursing Homes or Assisted Living Facilities?

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Episode 45: Capgras Syndrome in Dementia--My Family Member Thinks I'm Not Me but an Imposter!

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Episode 44: Tips for Visiting People Living in Facilities

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Episode 43: Delusions in Dementia, Part 2--Approaches

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Episode 42: Delusions in Dementia Part 1

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Episode 41: Three Ways to Know if it is Safe to Leave My Family Member with Dementia Alone

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Episode 40: Deciding to Place a Loved One with Dementia is Not Surrendering!!

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Episode 39: Releasing Caregiver Guilt, Anxiety, and Fear!

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Episode 38: What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
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Episode 37: Teen Caregivers of Parents Living with Dementia
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Episode 36: Air Travel and Dementia Caregiving

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Episode 35: Dementia and Medications for Mood, Sleep, and Behaviors

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Episode 34: Taking the Mystery Out of Common Dementia Meds: Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors and Memantine

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Episode 33: How to Evaluate a Memory Care Unit--5 Important Questions to Ask!

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Episode 32: What is Sun Downing and How to Handle It!

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Episode 31: Removing Dementia Stigma & Stereotypes--Interview with Donna Marentay

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Episode 30: Shadowing, featuring Nurse Practitioner Lindsey Robbins

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Episode 29 Respite Care: Interview with Daphne Johnston

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Episode 28: Third part of free workshop, "Helping People Living with Dementia Who Refuse Care."

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Episode 27: Second part of free workshop, "Helping People Living with Dementia Who Refuse Care"

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Episode 26: Free Workshop Part 1 Helping People Living with Dementia Who Refuse Care

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Episode 25: What to do When a Person Living with Dementia Won't Take Their Medications

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Episode 24: Joy to the Dementia World: Tips for Dementia Caregiving During the Holidays

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Episode 23: How to Stop a Person with Dementia From Driving

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Episode 22: Should My Family Member with Dementia Be Driving?

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Episode 21: Ten Strategies for Dealing with Care Refusals in the Moment (Care Refusals Part 2)

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Episode 20: How Do I Know if My Family Member with Dementia Can Safely Make Decisions?

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Episode 19: How to Handle Hallucinations in People Living with Dementia

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Episode 18: Five Tips for Creating a Dementia-Friendly Holiday Experience

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Episode 17: What to Do When People with Dementia Refuse Help and Care Part 1

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Episode 16: Why People with Dementia Refuse Help

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Episode 15: Tony Bennett, Salmon Patties, and Fridge Worms: How to Use Meaningful Activities to Maintain Function in Persons with Dementia

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Episode 14: What Causes Irritability in Persons Living with Dementia?

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Episode 13: Crash Course in Dementia-Friendly Communication

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Episode 12: Dementia Cures are Horsecrap: Reversible Causes of Memory Problems

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Episode 11: Preventing Pee and Poop Accidents in Dementia

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Episode 10: How to Stop a Person with Dementia from Peeing in the Trashcan

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Episode 9: Dementia & Poop or How to Avoid Accidents and Feces Smearing

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Episode 8: Entering Their Reality
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Episode 7: Do I Tell a Person with Dementia That They Have Dementia?

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Episode 6:How to get a Person Living with Dementia to Drink More Water

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Episode 5:Bladder Infections Look Different in Dementia Land

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Episode 4:Shrinking Box, Lost Highway, and Mixed-Up Memories

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Episode 3:Understanding Dementia-Responsive Behaviors

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Episode 2:Stages of Dementia

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Episode 1: Meet the Dementias!

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