This woman is so smart. And very informative.wish I would watched this video when my husband was alive i took care of him 8 years n passed away March 30th 2023
I appreciated this video so much. My LO was given the general diagnosis of Alzheimer's but this really opened my eyes. His primary care doctor said oh, he's fine, he knows all his medications. No kidding, he's been on them for 20 years so he has his long term memory still! I'm going to be more vocal and insistent now that I'm armed with information. Thank you so much for sharing.
I was a caregiver of my mom & a nurse. ( she was also) I got very little help from a Geriatric phys. Or the AlZ assoc. this was helpful. I survived because of my church, common sense and closes friends. Thank you for this video. 3 years our it still haunts me.
My sincere thanks for your efforts to help us navigate this mysterious journey that is scary, stressful, heartbreaking, exhausting and sometimes, funny! I will share this extraordinary presentation.
...and a nursing home has a team of professionals who work 7-10 hour shifts then go home. A family caregiver works 24-7 with no break - highly stressful and exhausting
I love this video. So educational! My husband changed after back surgery with memory decline . The anesthesia put him into delirium. He can do household chores, laundry, baths every day and cooks. I made an appointment with a neurologist. TYSM.
Very well done. I lost my husband in2019 to Alzheimers and this information would have been so helpfull. I knew a lot of the info because his mother and 2 sisters had passed with the same problems. Wish I had a video recording for my children . Glad I found this video. God bless you .
Thank you.That's the best information and video I have ever heard on Dementia. I am a carer of 9 years for my Dad who has regular alzhiemers.That clarified many things I already knew and many I didn't know.I wish this type of training for carers was available to all new Carers in the early stages although I'm not sure many would want too hear it.We probably approaching or even in stage 7. One good thing is my dad still eats and drinks well.I'm in the UK. I can't beleive this video only has 16 likes.Maybe because it is nearly 2 hours long.
Excellent talk on dementia. Have listened to lots of talks. This is by far one of the best and most informative talks I've come across. Actually stayed with the video till the end and would have continued had it gone on longer. Could relate to everything that was said. My mother in her 7th year of diagnosis, I'm really struggling with the guilt. Even when I'm not caring for her I'm consumed with guilt fir not being there. A terrible disease on all the family. My children and husband have suffered and have been neglected because I have put my mother first but I am only realising this now seven years into her diagnosis. Look after your own health. This is so important. There is no point keeping it all to yourself. It will destroy you and my daughter has said to me on numerous occasions , " I do not want to be standing at a graveside with my granny looking diwn at my mother's grave" this definitely brought it home to me. To all you carers out there take note! I love my mother but also realise I will not be able to care for her into the late stages. It would not be good for me or her. Nice to hear speaker mention this.
I did not come for the sandwiches. I came and heard a brilliant Phd speak about a disease that has ravaged my marriage and future into a nightmare I could never imagine. And with this landscape out before me - alone and disgusted at the lack of honesty I see on this subject I am overwhelmingly honored to have stumbled upon Tam Cummings. Now when I come and go I will breathe and think of you. I will NOT let this disease bring me down. God bless you!!
My Dad was given a Special award back in 1980, because he was considered a Pioneer in Gerontology! He ran a home for the “aged” It was late 70’s and I was very young. It was attached to the Hospital where he was one of the Administrators. The little old ladies treated me like I was their Granddaughter. I also got to sit on the lap of the switch board operator and the switch board was one where you had to put the cord in the plug and then unplug it if you know the ones I’m talking about. Anyway, I Minored in Gerontology all because of my experiences with my Dad, and growing up around all the old lovely ladies! ❤️
Thank you for the most informative video I have seen..my husband had been diagnosed with dementia 3 years ago; I have seen him decline in many ways. I really learned so much valuable information from your video that helps me understand his needs. ❤
🤣 Really really enjoying this RUclips video. I’ve had the pleasure of being a caregiver to a World War II veteran From 2006 to 2012 and As a biologist, used my observational skills and logic to do the best I could to learn to adapt and be creative in a positive way as he changed. Not sure if I ever heard that he had a “stage “ of having dementia. Let me get back to the video.
Brilliant talk, I'm so grateful for your information. I only wish that the gerontologist my LO and I visited had given us this type of help. We diagnose and adios.
Thank you for all this information . Can you please do a current utube video on dementia ?My husband has this started as hydroceplaus the shunt then dementia .I have been bruised and abused many times .I can't afford to live in my home and put him in a memory unit yet. He gets angry so easily
Contact your state representative. They will have information about services available for low income people. Every state is a little different So you do have to talk to your local elected state senator or state representative. There is help out there. Good luck.
I’m a lifelong “shunt” person. I was born with Hydrocephalus, and I am “shunt dependent” I get angry VERY EASILY!! I don’t know if I’m having dementia isaues or not. I do have short term memory issues, since my LAST brain surgeries, (2 in one week)
Thank you very informative. I do wish the dementia diagnosis didn’t come late. By stage 5 you probably have a lack of awareness. I have mild neurocognitive disorder and doctors are telling me it could be due to OSA, MDD, overweight, stress and the likes. Everything but dementia. It’s not like I’m looking for a diagnosis but I’m looking for an answer and not getting better with treatments.
Its always amazed me how people respond maliciously to inappropriate behaviour: elderly person begins to stumble and they are likely to be told ‘smarten up and walk properly’. Or they make a strange claim and are told ‘dont be stupid, thats not right’ etc. People accuse first and do not consider that a stroke may have happened or some other disease process. And I have heard nurses and other healthcare workers do this too. Why on earth would someone purposely fall down or purposely start mumbling or purposely have a weak arm, etc etc and bring down on themselves the wrath of someone else who criticizes them?
I’m 85 years old and I had an adult family home! I worked in that setting until I was 72 & my husband until he was was 70. He had open heart surgery when he was 73. He’s now 83. We think we’re going to be alive when Christ comes back to take us all Home to live Them forever! AAAMMMEEENNN & AAAMMMEEENNN!😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤
My mother is deaf and blind in one eye and poor sight in her "good" eye. She is begining to not be able to understand the notes I write to converse with her. How far into dementia is she,approximately. She,
Didn't like your comment about being brought home amongst a group of boys and that being a bad thing...I come from a large family that didn't make a difference and my brothers are my closes friends.
I looked her up “Online” and she has a PhD in Sociology. Basically, this is the study of Groups. She is NOT a Medical Doctor who has formal training in Geriatrics and this after four years of medical school. She is more like the current Doctor Phil on TV or the late Doctor Ruth. Both dispense(d) opinions like you and I at a dinner party. Maybe, one day, she will have here own TV show like Dr. Phil. .😅😅😅.
Just a reminder of the sad reality of the human condition: SOONER OR LATER WE END UP IN THE SAME GARBAGE SITE! No wonder so many people try to escape this depressing reality by clinging to religion!
Sorry lady, the patient wanting to go home is actually missing their old life & physical home. These people are often treated as so mentally harmed they wont remember anything & are expected to immediately & always fully accept being taken out of their homes they lived in for decades, paid for, took care. This is actually bc their children to assuage their own guilt listen to people like you & choose to believe you. Some of what you say about this is at least misleading and at worst a dirty lie. You don't make sense on a few of the things you say.
i feel the same work 40 years raising kids have to sell your/thier house to pay for care home fees if you have savings they will lost all money have to give up work to look after them when they are to sick need 24-hour care
You can keep your home when your spouse / loved one qualifies for medicaid. And the spouse can keep about 137000 dollars / half of her assets but each state is different.
Very much appreciated information. I am giving this to my children so it won't be such a shock when I may be told I have dementia. I am 81, and have been diagnosed with a very rare blood cancer and have had a mini stroke, along with five TIAs. I realize that the cancer will have an effect on my brain. They have told me they will never put me in a nursing home, but my mother died at 72 with Alzheimers. I had not heard of the disease before so had no idea what to expect when I brought her to my home to take care of her. Needless to say, I couldn't do it. Long story short, I put her in a nursing home where she died two years later. It's a horrible way to die for all parties concerned. I wish I had seen this video thirty years ago. Thank you.
This woman is so smart. And very informative.wish I would watched this video when my husband was alive i took care of him 8 years n passed away March 30th 2023
Both of my parents have dementia. Thank you for clearing up so many questions as to why they react to things differently.
I appreciated this video so much. My LO was given the general diagnosis of Alzheimer's but this really opened my eyes. His primary care doctor said oh, he's fine, he knows all his medications. No kidding, he's been on them for 20 years so he has his long term memory still! I'm going to be more vocal and insistent now that I'm armed with information. Thank you so much for sharing.
I was a caregiver of my mom & a nurse. ( she was also) I got very little help from a Geriatric phys. Or the AlZ assoc. this was helpful. I survived because of my church, common sense and closes friends. Thank you for this video. 3 years our it still haunts me.
My sincere thanks for your efforts to help us navigate this mysterious journey that is scary, stressful, heartbreaking, exhausting and sometimes, funny! I will share this extraordinary presentation.
She is brilliant. I have learned so much from her teaching.
This is the best informative film on dementia I have watched.
Very informatve. Thanks
...and a nursing home has a team of professionals who work 7-10 hour shifts then go home. A family caregiver works 24-7 with no break - highly stressful and exhausting
I love this video. So educational! My husband changed after back surgery with memory decline . The anesthesia put him into delirium. He can do household chores, laundry, baths every day and cooks. I made an appointment with a neurologist. TYSM.
Very well done. I lost my husband in2019 to Alzheimers and this information would have been so helpfull. I knew a lot of the info because his mother and 2 sisters had passed with the same problems. Wish I had a video recording for my children . Glad I found this video. God bless you .
Thank you.That's the best information and video I have ever heard on Dementia. I am a carer of 9 years for my Dad who has regular alzhiemers.That clarified many things I already knew and many I didn't know.I wish this type of training for carers was available to all new Carers in the early stages although I'm not sure many would want too hear it.We probably approaching or even in stage 7. One good thing is my dad still eats and drinks well.I'm in the UK. I can't beleive this video only has 16 likes.Maybe because it is nearly 2 hours long.
Very comprehensive lecture ❤ thank you ..
Excellent talk on dementia. Have listened to lots of talks. This is by far one of the best and most informative talks I've come across. Actually stayed with the video till the end and would have continued had it gone on longer. Could relate to everything that was said. My mother in her 7th year of diagnosis, I'm really struggling with the guilt. Even when I'm not caring for her I'm consumed with guilt fir not being there. A terrible disease on all the family. My children and husband have suffered and have been neglected because I have put my mother first but I am only realising this now seven years into her diagnosis. Look after your own health. This is so important. There is no point keeping it all to yourself. It will destroy you and my daughter has said to me on numerous occasions , " I do not want to be standing at a graveside with my granny looking diwn at my mother's grave" this definitely brought it home to me. To all you carers out there take note! I love my mother but also realise I will not be able to care for her into the late stages. It would not be good for me or her. Nice to hear speaker mention this.
I did not come for the sandwiches. I came and heard a brilliant Phd speak about a disease that has ravaged my marriage and future into a nightmare I could never imagine. And with this landscape out before me - alone and disgusted at the lack of honesty I see on this subject I am overwhelmingly honored to have stumbled upon Tam Cummings. Now when I come and go I will breathe and think of you. I will NOT let this disease bring me down. God bless you!!
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I wish I knew this 15 years ago
This video has taught me a lot of information that I should have known a long time ago. I will share this information to a lot of people I know.
My Dad was given a Special award back in 1980, because he was considered a Pioneer in Gerontology! He ran a home for the “aged” It was late 70’s and I was very young. It was attached to the Hospital where he was one of the Administrators. The little old ladies treated me like I was their Granddaughter. I also got to sit on the lap of the switch board operator and the switch board was one where you had to put the cord in the plug and then unplug it if you know the ones I’m talking about. Anyway, I Minored in Gerontology all because of my experiences with my Dad, and growing up around all the old lovely ladies! ❤️
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT
It all sounds very frendly.
Good information. I am also a Gerontologist and I brand new to the profession.
Thank you for sharing this information
Brilliant l have learnt a lot in 2hour .so properly explained. Thank you
Thank you. Never heard anything so comprehensive.
Yes great information!! Thank you
Thank you for the most informative video I have seen..my husband had been diagnosed with dementia 3 years ago; I have seen him decline in many ways. I really learned so much valuable information from your video that helps me understand his needs.
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Tam Cummings You are absolutely brilliant and have such an awesome way of explaining the dementia disease.
One of best, if not the best. Overview of dementia & how to care for our loved one.
thank you. for more information go to Dr.Cummings website: tamcummings.com.
This woman is a God send!
I appreciate the the video about dementia.i learned a lot
Untangling dementia i never know that so many state of dementia i m learning a lot from that
appeciate the lecture on dementia.... i am under going thru...more information will help me.
Brilliant information thank you 😊
This was amazing - so, so helpful. Thank you very much.
Thank you for this. My loved one was diagnosed with bvFTD through neurological testing and PET scan.
🤣 Really really enjoying this RUclips video. I’ve had the pleasure of being a caregiver to a World War II veteran From 2006 to 2012 and As a biologist, used my observational skills and logic to do the best I could to learn to adapt and be creative in a positive way as he changed. Not sure if I ever heard that he had a “stage “ of having dementia. Let me get back to the video.
What an enlightning talk...thank you xx
This was a wonderful explanation
Please go to. tamcummings.com. for more information, books and tools.
Except for the countless “does that make sense?” and “are you with me?” it was a great talk.
Brilliant talk, I'm so grateful for your information. I only wish that the gerontologist my LO and I visited had given us this type of help. We diagnose and adios.
Thank you for your talk with detail. It has helped me. My husband has agnosia. ☹️
Info on lobes at 55 minutes, very useful.
Thank you!😊
Thank you for all this information . Can you please do a current utube video on dementia ?My husband has this started as hydroceplaus the shunt then dementia .I have been bruised and abused many times .I can't afford to live in my home and put him in a memory unit yet. He gets angry so easily
Me too
I need more inferactive information like this one
Contact your state representative. They will have information about services available for low income people. Every state is a little different So you do have to talk to your local elected state senator or state representative. There is help out there. Good luck.
I’m a lifelong “shunt” person. I was born with Hydrocephalus, and I am “shunt dependent” I get angry VERY EASILY!! I don’t know if I’m having dementia isaues or not. I do have short term memory issues, since my LAST brain surgeries, (2 in one week)
Excellent lecture. Wish speaker had repeated the audience questions.
i really appreciate because i am detected for dementia....Pravin patel
Craving sweets or carbs is also possibly a sign of nutrient deficiencies, such as B vitamin deficiency.
Thank you very informative. I do wish the dementia diagnosis didn’t come late. By stage 5 you probably have a lack of awareness. I have mild neurocognitive disorder and doctors are telling me it could be due to OSA, MDD, overweight, stress and the likes. Everything but dementia. It’s not like I’m looking for a diagnosis but I’m looking for an answer and not getting better with treatments.
Great content, just wish Tam didn’t say “does that make sense” after every comment.
Agreed.
I guess it's to keep the audience awake??
I hve got so much frm this video.
They weren't very engaging with Tammy.
never noticed
Its always amazed me how people respond maliciously to inappropriate behaviour: elderly person begins to stumble and they are likely to be told ‘smarten up and walk properly’. Or they make a strange claim and are told ‘dont be stupid, thats not right’ etc. People accuse first and do not consider that a stroke may have happened or some other disease process. And I have heard nurses and other healthcare workers do this too. Why on earth would someone purposely fall down or purposely start mumbling or purposely have a weak arm, etc etc and bring down on themselves the wrath of someone else who criticizes them?
I’m 85 years old and I had an adult family home! I worked in that setting until I was 72 & my husband until he was was 70. He had open heart surgery when he was 73. He’s now 83. We think we’re going to be alive when Christ comes back to take us all Home to live Them forever! AAAMMMEEENNN & AAAMMMEEENNN!😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤
How do I get the papers that you show
What is the name of this lady?
My dad had COPD and he & many of my patients had it and we had to try and make them eat!😮😢
I can’t remember when each year my kids were born I remember the month & day, but I can’t remember the year!? Why is that? I haven’t a clue!😊😅😮😢🎉😂❤
Has a few of the other signs as well
My mother is deaf and blind in one eye and poor sight in her "good" eye. She is begining to not be able to understand the notes I write to converse with her. How far into dementia is she,approximately. She,
Very interesting but it is a reminder of the sad reality most of us will face as we age and get older and older: BUMMER!
🎉🎉🎉😊🎉😊🎉🎉🎉
Didn't like your comment about being brought home amongst a group of boys and that being a bad thing...I come from a large family that didn't make a difference and my brothers are my closes friends.
I looked her up “Online” and she has a PhD in Sociology. Basically, this is the study of Groups. She is NOT a Medical Doctor who has formal training in Geriatrics and this after four years of medical school. She is more like the current Doctor Phil on TV or the late Doctor Ruth. Both dispense(d) opinions like you and I at a dinner party. Maybe, one day, she will have here own TV show like Dr. Phil. .😅😅😅.
Does this make sense? Next time you change this phrase!!😢😢
Just a reminder of the sad reality of the human condition: SOONER OR LATER WE END UP IN THE SAME GARBAGE SITE! No wonder so many people try to escape this depressing reality by clinging to religion!
Sorry lady, the patient wanting to go home is actually missing their old life & physical home. These people are often treated as so mentally harmed they wont remember anything & are expected to immediately & always fully accept being taken out of their homes they lived in for decades, paid for, took care. This is actually bc their children to assuage their own guilt listen to people like you & choose to believe you. Some of what you say about this is at least misleading and at worst a dirty lie. You don't make sense on a few of the things you say.
i feel the same work 40 years raising kids have to sell your/thier house to pay for care home fees if you have savings they will lost all money have to give up work to look after them when they are to sick need 24-hour care
You can keep your home when your spouse / loved one qualifies for medicaid. And the spouse can keep about 137000 dollars / half of her assets but each state is different.
Wow! What part of her lecture is bologna? Your objection is so general and vague. Can you be more specific?
Listen to it again.
My relative wanted to go to her home, husband and young sons.
She was 76.
Very much appreciated information. I am giving this to my children so it won't be such a shock when I may be told I have dementia. I am 81, and have been diagnosed with a very rare blood cancer and have had a mini stroke, along with five TIAs. I realize that the cancer will have an effect on my brain. They have told me they will never put me in a nursing home, but my
mother died at 72 with Alzheimers. I had not heard of the disease before so had no idea what to expect when I brought her to my home to take care of her. Needless to say, I couldn't do it. Long story short, I put her in a nursing home where she died two years later. It's a horrible way to die for all parties concerned.
I wish I had seen this video thirty years
ago. Thank you.
What a snooze.