Conscious Caregiving with L & L "Dementia and Denial"

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Conscious Caregiving with L & L is "Tackling the Tough Conversations."

The topic of this episode is "Dementia & Denial" featuring hosts Lori La Bey and Lance A. Slatton.

Lori La Bey:

Lori La Bey is the founder of Alzheimer’s Speaks and is co-founder of Dementia Map global resource directory and the co-host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L. Lori’s mother who lived with dementia for 30 years. Her goal has always been to shift dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world.

She offers a variety of free resources to educate, empower, connect, and decrease stigmas; helping families and professionals live graciously alongside dementia. Lori is an international speaker known for her multiple platforms and training programs.

Lance A. Slatton - known as "The Senior Care Influencer"":

Known as “The Senior Care Influencer” Lance is a Writer, Author, Influencer, and Healthcare professional with over 20 years in the healthcare industry.

Lance A. Slatton is a senior case manager at Enriched Life Home Care Services in Livonia, MI. He is also host of the award winning podcast & YouTube channel All Home Care Matters and Co-Host of Conscious Caregiving with L & L with Lori La Bey along with The Care Advocates and The Caregiver's Journal.

Lance's book, "The All Home Care Matters Official Family Caregivers' Guide" was the recent recipient of the 2024 International Impact Book Awards.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The The
0:23.6	The Hello and welcome back to Conscious Caregiving with L&L, where we're tackling the tough
0:47.0	conversations.
0:48.5	Welcome back to Conscious Caregiving with L&L.
0:51.0	I am your co-host, Lance A. Slatt, also the author of The All Home Care Matters,
0:55.4	official family caregivers guide, and I am joined by my esteemed colleague and friend, Lori LaBay.
1:01.6	Welcome, Lori. I'm excited to be here again, Lance. This is going to be a fun conversation.
1:07.6	For those of you that don't know me, I am the founder of Alzheimer's Speaks and the co-founder of dementia map and the author of Betty the Bald Chicken Lessons in How to Care.
1:19.6	Yes, and it's a wonderful book for any situation you're dealing with children, adults. There's a lot of good lessons to learn from Betty,
1:27.8	the bald chicken, that's for sure. We're doing something a little bit different today where we're
1:32.0	not going to have a panel joining us, but you and I are going to be talking a lot about denial.
1:37.3	And, you know, denial comes in a lot of forms, a lot of different situations. And why don't you
1:42.9	kick us off, Lori? Well well this to me is a really
1:46.3	important topic I hear families discussing this all the time kind of pointing the
1:50.8	fingers of why people aren't helping why they're not on the same page and it can
1:55.6	be from the the person diagnosed having maybe some health issues to family members and friends,
2:02.3	as well as professionals. I mean, people have denial, you know, all throughout life. But
2:07.6	when it comes to a health care situation, it becomes, I think, a bit more critical because
2:13.5	people are looking for support from one another. So I think first we have to define,
2:18.5	you know, what is denial? And to me, and I'd like your opinion on this too, it's just really
2:25.8	a refusal to accept the reality in front of them. You know, their beliefs are different. And an
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