An Insight into Mixed Dementia with Care Partner Patti LaFleur

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Education, Health & Fitness

5.0 • 88 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters welcomed Patti LaFleur as a guest to the show to share her and her mother's story of love and mixed dementia. During this interview Patti shares the incredible bond that her and her mother shared and her story of being a care partner with her mother.

Patti had the ultimate opportunity to be the care partner for her Mom, Linda. They were meant to be. Linda adopted Patti when she was a baby and Patti had the amazing opportunity to care for her as she lived (and thrived!) with dementia and type 1 diabetes. Patti cared for her full time for about three years and her goal was to find joy every day as her care partner. It was a true partnership between them and you could always find them creating, singing, laughing and loving together every day!

Patti's background is in Elementary Education and she was a Kindergarten teacher for the last 9 years. Patti had a true understanding that behavior is communication allowed her to maintain patience and love with her mom as they navigated this disease. Patti has recently started volunteering for the Alzheimer’s association and Dementia friends doing community outreach. Patti also runs a monthly informal support group for Young Caregivers of Loved Ones with dementia on Facebook and enjoy connecting with other care partners.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care,
0:06.0	with discussions on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.3	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local.
0:26.6	Thank you. local. Hello and welcome 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.
0:33.6	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try to make each
0:38.7	episode here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. Today,
0:43.6	we're honored to welcome a remarkable guest, Patty LaFleur. Patty was a care partner for her
0:49.0	mother through her dementia. Welcome, Patty. Hi, thanks for having me.
0:55.7	Well, thank you for being here.
1:01.5	So Patty, you suddenly found yourself being a caregiver for your mom.
1:10.2	Kind of walk us through the beginning stages of when you started to suspect that mom needed some help and what was it that she needed help with?
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:18.1	So about eight years ago, we noticed that my mom was having a hard time remembering to give herself insulin.
1:19.3	So she has been a type one diabetic for 50 plus years.
1:23.7	And so she could always manage it really beautifully, but she was forgetting to give herself
1:29.1	shots. And she was running high or running low unexpectedly. And so we started to notice that it was
1:37.1	becoming challenging for her to remember to give herself her insulin. In addition, she just was
1:43.6	sad more often.
1:44.8	She was crying more.
1:46.9	She was withdrawing.
1:48.7	And so we noticed that there was some things going on.
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