How To!: Help a Loved One With Dementia

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Forgetfulness. Repetitiveness. Confusion. Dementia is a long, painful road for both the person living with it, caregivers, and their additional loved ones. Mara’s mom just received her diagnosis and Mara is wondering what is next for their family. She turned to our host Courtney Martin for guidance—since Courtney is going through the same thing with her father. On this episode of How To!: Courtney and Mara are joined by Tami Anastasia, author of Essential Strategies for the Dementia Caregiver. As a dementia consultant, Tami helps families support each other and find the beautiful moments in this painful journey. If you liked this episode check out: How To Make Aging Easier for Everyone Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi,
0:02.0	so good to see you.
0:04.0	Good to see you too.
0:06.0	Thank you for thinking of me and inviting me for this.
0:08.0	I'm so grateful.
0:10.0	Oh, well, as you both know,
0:12.0	this one feels very personal to me and I pathologically love to be helpful.
0:17.0	So this is like, yay!
0:19.0	Welcome to How-To, I'm Courtney Martin.
0:25.0	I'm one of the millions of people in this country who has a loved one impacted by dementia.
0:31.0	In my case, it's my dear dad, one of my best friends on Earth. I first started
0:35.8	noticing signs almost a decade ago, but it took a while for our family to realize
0:40.2	what was really going on and get a diagnosis. Now my mom, my brother and I
0:44.8	actually met with today's expert. You'll meet her in a little bit to learn how to
0:49.0	navigate this unpredictable and intense condition.
0:52.6	But I hadn't talked about this publicly,
0:55.2	until recently.
0:56.6	So I wanted to start by reading you a passage
0:59.4	for my sub-stack newsletter.
1:01.6	I'm going to start writing more publicly about my journey with my dad. I haven't
1:06.0	done so for a long time out of respect for his privacy and I will continue to
1:09.7	care for what I believe he would and wouldn't want put out in public,
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