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Most excellent information. Realistic, helpful and something you can take away and use today. Thank you 🙏🏽

My wife is in stage 6 and has been crying several times an hour for three days. At first I thought it was a med change but watching this has reminded me that it’s very likely a UTI which can be pain. She has urinary and fecal incontinence daily and showering is a battle. Dr Cummings is so helpful. Thank you for having her on. I’ve spoken to Dr Cummings, read her materials, used her tools, but just watching this has helped me zoom in on a likely source so I can discuss things with her gerontologist Monday morning.

Appreciate your videos filled with information that is most helpful....❤thank you 😊

Dr. Cummings is fantastic!

Thank you so much for these programs. I’m also happy to see when you have a new video! You are so helpful to me

Hello from Australia. Thank you for your videos, they have really helped me navigate the carer journey with my dad who was diagnosed stage 5-6 in April this year.

I can't believe this content doesn't have more interaction. Fantastic resource for us caregivers. Thank you.

As hard as it is to accept the reality and the new normal. The truth is that Alzheimer's gradually takes away the person you know and love. As this happens, you will mourn him or her and may experience the different phases of grieving: denial, anger, guilt, sadness and acceptance, your grieving process starts already and its heartbreaking to go through this process while your love one is still alive . The only thing that helps is to embrace what she / he has left. Don’t focus on what it was , because it will never be again. Focus on what is and try to make the best of it. Be creative to handle delusions. Remember they are no accusing you of stealing, cheating, hurting them. It’s the disease. They wouldn’t if they were not sick. Delusions are tough sometimes they remain for a day, sometimes a week and sometimes never go away. Please don’t personalized nor question their reality, don’t try to make sense of it, don’t argue, don’t try to make them understand. Please go to their reality they can’t be in yours. What you can do is assure them how much you love them and how safe they are with you. They are humans who hast lost their brain and its functions and what they have left is malfunctioning. Embraced their reality and love them until their death. They do need you. They do love you. Love is not a memory it’s a feelings that never dies.

Thank you, Sharon. You make it easier to remember and understand. Gives me some insight of the reality of FTD and how to appropriately handle situations that we may experience along the way.

Oh, I have so very many things to say in response to the first part of this webinar...and none of them are positive. I've been adjusting since moving in with mom over a year ago. This presentation feels like a slap in the face to me. It makes me wonder how much assistance this presenter has available to them, because this does not sound like the caregivers I know, and certainly not my experience. I can't even finish the seminar-the patronizing is not appreciated at all.

My mom is 76 . She’s incontinence, hasn’t bathed in a year , mobility is extremely difficult, eating very little , UTI , always cold , shuffling, denies medical care , paramedics won’t take her as she refuses, she smells and hoarders . I am literally stuck as her primary who is now retired told me I have to wait till something bad happens because I can’t make her do anything.

I have listened to SO MANY videos about this subject, and this is the most informative one that I have listened to yet. Thank you so much for this! I am going back at least once more in case I missed something. After a forty-nine year marriage, my SIL was left in our care a couple of months ago. Doctor advised my husband she is moderate to severe at this time. It definitely is a new experience for us. Especially since we had no contact with her for years prior

Thank you!!

Hello Dr Cummings,pls email me questions about Dimentia,am a nurse/ caregiver,my patient has Dimentia.i want to know more about it,and learn more.. please.Miranda Thabo

THANK YOU. Thank you so much for this information. I was beside myself trying to figure out how to care for my dad. This information describing the difference between these levels of care is exactly what I needed to make the right decision for him. This is life changing for him and me. God bless you. ❤

Yes to all!

I'm 59 and male. 16:58 I have small vessel ischemic disease. I feel that frustration. I cannot find the rights words or I forget - leads to frustration. People around me sense it.

Nice! Easy, was getting ready for work & joined in with you!

thank you so much for this!!

You are a Godsend. Thank you so much for these videos. They are such a comfort. It is stress relieving to listen to someone who actually knows what they are talking about.

Really well done. I have LBD, probably in stage 5. Drawing extensively from “cognitive reserve.” Consoled because I have a relationship with God.

❤yes, thank you, thank you thank you from me too!! I pass n to others much of what you say and I know it makes a difference to them too. Can’t express how grateful I am. 👏

What is the difference between bvFTD and FTD for someone who has a VCP gene mutation of Inclusion Body myopathy? And are those that do, have a tendency to be angry and aggressive?

Suggest a Dementia Callender...as things change

Learn all you can about Dementia and adjust each moment and 🙏

List ingredient quantities, so I can copy and follow. Thanks.

Again thank you, thank you, thank you so much. You helped me understand the disease of dementia my mum had. She passed away back in December but I still listen to Dr Tam and learn something new every time.

Thanks for this video. You are straight up and pragmatic. My mum is stage 6. I am greiving. About to go visit her in the hospital. She has had a big behaviour and cognitive change over the last couple of months and ended up in the older adult mental health ward. Luckily they have given her medication and she is ready to be discharged back to her care home in about 4 days. Underneath my grief is love. My grief about her illness is testament to how good a mum she is. Sending love to all people who are experiencing this. Its so hard.

Very good presentation! Thank you for sharing this information.

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How come they can be ok then suddenly after an infection like the flu they go straight into the decline

have you heard of gabapentin for dementia and what is all the hallucinations coming from

My husband with FTD was scammed early on and also removed $ from 401K

Thank you for inviting me to talk about "What Matters to Me" and having THE conversation. Ya'll do a great job educating all of us!

I'm unfortunately the only one who will be giving care until the end of life

Still trying to get a diagnosis but have found 'throwing myself under the bus' is giving us several weeks so far of peaceful existence. I strongly suspect vascular dementia as there is a large infarct in the right frontal lobe as per. MRI for a silent stroke. ( Didnt seem silent for me but was found at least 6 months later after he fainted)

As spouses we often don't realise the extent to which we compensate for the gradual decline. We just automatically take over the various areas as our spouses difficulties increase.

why do they put them on meds for hallucinations? Do these work

When completing DBAT do we check the box if the behaviour has been observed at all or only when it is constant?

What about life alerts for the caregiver. I have my own medical problems and my husband would not be able to help me.

What about a baby monitor to listen for your love one.

Thank you so much! My dad was diagnosed in Jan 2024 with stage 5/6 VD. Everything now makes sense and I feel terrible as his caregiver (last 10yrs) for thinking he has been lying, manipulating and antagonizing over the past 5-6 years. As a teacher I believe the saying ‘when you see the child differently you see a different child’. Knowing what I now know I apply this belief to my dad and our relationship has changed for the better 💙

My Loved one has Vascular Dementia. He had a major stroke at age 48. He was diagnosed with Vascular as well as Alzheimer’s at age 79. Could that bad stroke long ago have caused his vascular dementia?

Mi enfermo tiene cirrosis muy avanzada y vivimos en San Marcos California y tiene medical usted sabe como aplicar para esos servicios?

Thank you for the video. My mom has Alzheimer’s dementia and has begun fabricating/misremembering events that she believes happened in the past. Is this normal or common?

How interesting about the cycle of life, the season of birth & death

I am my husbands caregiver. None of the family helps. Now im wondering how to prepare for my future if i end up with dementia. My expectation was that my kids would be there. Not so, now wht?

Transcript?

The only add I have is that it would be helpful to say the stages as you are describing symptoms