Dementia Care Overload? 7 Real-World Shifts That Instantly Lighten Your Daily Burden

Beyond the Diagnosis: Living with Dementia

Nancy Y. Treaster

How To, Parenting, Kids & Family, Education, Business, Mental Health, Non-profit, Health & Fitness

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Running on empty, juggling meds, meals, and midnight wake-ups?
You’re not alone—and you don’t have to white-knuckle through it. In this encouraging episode, host Stacey Chillemi teams up with dementia-care trainer [Guest Name] to share field-tested routines and mindset tweaks that protect your health while giving your loved one the calm, dignified support they deserve. Listen to learn:

The “One-Thing Rule” that cuts daily decision fatigue in half
A 5-minute Morning Grounding Ritual proven to lower caregiver cortisol all day
Color-coded task boards that turn siblings and neighbors into reliable helpers
How to use music and lavender scent cues to ease agitation in minutes
Free or low-cost community & tech resources that build in crucial respite
Early warning signs of compassion fatigue—and a quick rescue plan
A self-compassion script to silence guilt and celebrate the wins you do achieve

Whether you’re brand-new to caregiving or deep in the trenches, these strategies hand you a clear roadmap to make each day lighter—for both of you.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the advisor with Stacey Chilemi, and I'm very excited today
0:07.6	because we have a very special guest on our show today. She is the co-founder of the caregiver's
0:13.0	journey, and her name is Nancy Trester, and she is an amazing woman who helps people that have
0:19.7	family members and loved ones with dementia. And she's here today
0:24.3	to talk about some of the important factors about being a caregiver and different facts about
0:30.1	dementia and how to cope with people in your family or a loved one that you know that has dementia
0:35.7	that's part of your life and how to get through
0:38.3	it and different tips and strategies and tools that you could use in your daily life to make
0:42.9	it easier for you as a caregiver. And I just want to mention, you know, she had mentioned some
0:48.1	numbers that I think are very important. We have to really consider that there are 55 million
0:52.6	people in the world with dementia and 7.4
0:56.0	million in the US.
0:58.0	And she also had mentioned that it's growing and they expected to triple in the future.
1:05.0	And so we really, this is something that we really need to understand and we really need to really do what we can to help others and to be able to
1:14.4	help people we know who have dementia and also to learn maybe preventive ways on how we can
1:20.1	prevent dementia even if it's genetically in our families there are things you can do to help prevent
1:26.1	dementia you know health health-wise also.
1:29.0	So I'm going to give the path and the hat and whatever you want to say.
1:34.8	And, you know, I'm so, I'm so honored to have you on the show.
1:38.3	I'm so honored what you're doing.
1:40.2	You know, it takes a lot to be a caregiver.
1:42.3	You know, I was a caregiver and I had caregivers, you know, when I was going through epilepsy,
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