Advice for Dementia Caregivers: My Podcasts on Lifestyle Improvement Radio

Download the podcasts below to listen to an interview about my book, "Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir," with Lifestyle Improvement Radio. Rebeca, above, asked me lots of interesting questions about my eight-year journey caring for Mom, and recorded our discussion as two 30-minute podcasts. Here are the links and the topics we discuss:
- How I got to the place where I accepted that my mother needed help and that I needed to provide that help
- What it was like for my mother to live with me and my family, and why we decided that assisted living was the best option
- Overcoming the guilt I felt moving my mother into a facility
- Some of the things that Mom taught me over my years of caring for her
- How writing was a way to address the frustrations of caregiving and to heal some of those feelings
- How caregiving affected my health
- Some lesser-known risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease (such as sleep apnea and high blood sugar)
- Why exercise is the best antidote for Alzheimer's (although there is no proven way to prevent the disease
- Why I was a reluctant caregiver
- How caregiving brought us closer and helped us overcome our challenging relationship as mother and daughter
- Key advice I would give anyone who is just beginning to be a caregiver for a person with dementia
I hope you have a chance to listen to these recordings and that you enjoy them. Feel free to leave a comment below.
Have a great week!
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