Dementia Care Demystified: 7 Compassionate Strategies to Support Your Loved One — and Yourself
Beyond the Diagnosis: Living with Dementia
Nancy Y. Treaster
5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this heart-centered conversation, host Stacey Chillemi speaks with geriatric-care specialist [Guest Name] to share practical tools, mindset shifts, and self-care rituals that make the journey easier for both you and your loved one. Listen to discover:
- A simple “Three-C” communication formula that eases confusion and frustration on the spot
- Home-safety tweaks that reduce wandering risks without creating a “locked-in” feeling
- The daily rhythm reset proven to calm sundowning and improve sleep quality
- How to build a care-partner team (family, friends, professionals) so you’re never alone
- Mind-body techniques for preventing caregiver burnout and preserving your own health
- Legal & financial checkpoints every family should tackle before a crisis hits
- Uplifting activities that spark joy, memory, and connection—even in later stages
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | Hey everyone and welcome back to the advisor. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Lisa Urbanski, co-host of the show. |
| 0:08.0 | And today's a really special show. |
| 0:10.0 | It is one that is near and dear to my heart. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm sitting here with two beautiful women who have a story to tell and they are helping thousands of people deal with something that happens as we get |
| 0:23.4 | older and we were chatting here before I hit record and you know I even got a little bit |
| 0:29.0 | emotional thinking about this stuff and that topic is dementia so I'm sitting here with Sue Ryan |
| 0:35.1 | and Nancy Treister who have made the caregiver's journey. |
| 0:40.9 | They are their co-founders. |
| 0:42.3 | So what that means is they offer practical tips and really candid conversation for families |
| 0:48.3 | looking after loved ones with Alzheimer's or dementia. |
| 0:52.3 | So through this website and through their knowledge, they really give us |
| 0:58.6 | practical step-by-step advice with an online course. And today, they are going to answer some of |
| 1:05.8 | my questions and help so many of you guys out there. So it's really good to see you, and it was so good to meet you guys. |
| 1:12.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:13.4 | Wonderful. |
| 1:13.8 | Thanks for having us as well. |
| 1:14.8 | We appreciate it. |
| 1:16.3 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:17.0 | This is amazing. |
| 1:18.8 | So I'm going to jump right in. |
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