Amy Shaw, PA-C Founder of Better Dementia
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Amy Shaw as guest to the show.
About Amy Shaw:
Amy Shaw, PA-C, is a dementia care clinician and the founder of Better Dementia™, a national education platform dedicated to transforming how families navigate the dementia journey at BetterDementia.com. With more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of dementia, serious illness, and family life, she recognized that traditional healthcare routinely misses the early and middle stages of dementia — leaving caregivers overwhelmed and unsupported.
Through one-to-one family consulting and her self-paced online caregiver education platform, Amy teaches caregivers everything they need to understand the entire dementia journey. Her clinically grounded, stage-based approach explains the what, when, and why of dementia so families can master the how of caregiving with clarity, confidence, and preserved dignity. Amy is the author of The Arc of Conversation: A How-to Guide for Goals of Care Conversations (Springer, 2025) and is currently writing her next book, Better Dementia: From Overwhelmed to Empowered.
About Better Dementia:
Better Dementia™ is a national education and family support platform dedicated to transforming how families understand and navigate the dementia journey. Traditional healthcare models focus almost exclusively on the patient visit. Dementia, however, is primarily a caregiver experience — one that unfolds gradually at home long before medical systems respond. Better Dementia was created to close that gap.
Founded by Amy Shaw, PA-C, Better Dementia teaches caregivers the what, when, and why of dementia so they can master the how of caregiving with clarity and confidence. The approach centers pattern recognition, disease understanding, dignity preservation, and calm communication — rather than crisis response. Through digital education, one-on-one consulting, and national media outreach, Better Dementia provides families with the structure and language needed to reduce overwhelm, support care decisions and transitions, prevent unnecessary hospitalizations, and support earlier hospice enrollment when appropriate.
The mission is simple: to equip caregivers with the understanding needed to create a better dementia journey for everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:23.9 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.6 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.1 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters |
| 0:38.1 | something that will hopefully matter to you today we are honored to welcome a remarkable guest |
| 0:43.6 | amy shaw amy is a dementia clinician and the founder of better dementia and the author of |
| 0:51.0 | the arc of conversation Arc of Conversation. |
| 1:00.4 | Welcome, Amy. How are you? Welcome, Amy Shaw. She is a dementia clinician and the founder of Better Dementia. Welcome, Amy. How are you? I am so well. Thank you so much for having me on today. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm honored to be here. Oh, it's our pleasure. You know, I introduced you as a dementia clinician and the founder of |
| 1:12.8 | Better Dementia. Before we kind of get into the questions I have for you, why don't you describe |
| 1:17.6 | what it means when you say you're a dementia clinician and a little bit about better dementia. |
| 1:23.8 | Very good. My background, I'm a physician assistant by training, but my background as an undergrad, |
| 1:32.3 | I was always fascinated with brain science and behavior. I studied primate cognition, child development, |
| 1:39.4 | language acquisition, and neurology as an undergrad and at Emory University. |
| 1:46.5 | And I really feel like my life has come full circle because that training has really informed |
| 1:52.1 | how I help make sense of the dementia journey for families. |
| 1:58.1 | Better dementia is the name of my educational portal and system and framework. |
| 2:03.9 | And it's rooted in the idea that when we understand things and have a common sense understanding of any topic that is rooted in actual science or actual a framework right that that is |
| 2:23.6 | common sense and makes sense to people who have to utilize that information |
| 2:28.2 | every day we really can transform a family's journey and And so my work is transformative. |
| 2:36.9 | I take biology, anatomy, neuroscience, the neural networks, |
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