Carrie Aalberts Founder & Creator of "Dementia Darling"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters is honored to welcome a good friend and even more remarkable guest to the show, Carrie Aalberts aka "Dementia Darling. Carrie has devoted herself to supporting and helping caregivers who are caring for loved ones with dementia.
Carrie Aalberts aka Dementia Darling has her Master of Science focused in Gerontology and has worked alongside seniors for the last ten years. She specializes in dementia care and engagement with experience in various settings such as adult day care and assisted living. Carrie is a Certified Dementia Practitioner and more recently a Montessori Dementia Care Professional. She is known for her social media persona, Dementia Darling. Carrie created Dementia Darling in fall 2019 to provide a safe space for Dementia Caregivers to find tips, education and support. Dementia Darling's mission is the ensure that no caregiver feels alone.
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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. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. 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. |
| 0:31.2 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here |
| 0:36.0 | at all home care matters, something that |
| 0:38.3 | will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are excited to welcome a remarkable person and friend, |
| 0:45.3 | Carrie Alberts, also known as the dementia darling. Welcome, Carrie. Hi, thank you so much for |
| 0:51.5 | having me, Lance. I'm so excited to be here. Finally. Finally. Well, it's our pleasure. You know, we're big supporters and fans of the dementia darling, |
| 1:00.3 | something that you have just created and turned into this just phenomenon. Why don't you talk to us and share with us, |
| 1:08.2 | what is the dementia darling's background? Well, first, thank you for always being a supportive person in my corner. |
| 1:15.7 | On all social media platforms, it means a lot to me. |
| 1:19.4 | So thank you. |
| 1:21.2 | And so, yes, it's nice to be here and finally collide and collab together. |
| 1:27.4 | But dementia, darling, we are actually not, I mean, |
| 1:31.0 | it's me, but our community, dementia darling is going to be three years old this month on the |
| 1:36.6 | 19th. So I'm pretty excited that it's been three years that I just decided I wanted to create |
| 1:43.4 | an Instagram community |
| 1:45.1 | because I felt there wasn't anything really out there |
| 1:48.4 | for dementia caregivers to easily find community resources, |
| 1:53.4 | support, education, whatever it was that they needed. |
| 1:56.8 | And I have been in the business for the last 10 years, just working in adult daycare centers and |
| 2:04.2 | memory care centers and volunteering and seeing this community and seeing the amazing family |
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