Podcasts about misunderstanding dementia

Learn How to make a 6 Figure salary as a CEO of your Own Home Health Care Agency with Shainna Young What is Optonome? What is it all about? Shainna Young, CEO of Own Home Health Care Agency, shares how Optonome helped her agency to where it is today with utilizing Optonome. In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia: 04:00 – What is Optonome? 05:00 – Who benefits from Optonome? 06:20 – How longs does it take to get started with Optonome? 07:20 – What is ISP? 10:00 – What are the pair source for adults with disabilities? 11:45 – Optonome advantage: Gives you clients. 12:50 – Question: How do you start with a geriatric population? 14:15 – Raffle time 18:35 – Questions: How are you getting time freedom? How are you making 6 figures? How are you making a difference? 22:00 – Question: How would one start with Optonome being experienced with geriatrics? 26:15 – Question: What is the difference in the hourly rate of DSP and Optonome? 31:00 – Question: How do you get DSPs? 36:00 – Raffle time 38:40 – Shainna talks about Inclusion housing. 44:00 – Raffle time 54:00 – Mike starting to build his business on Optonome. 56:20 – How much does it cost to start building your business with Optonome? 57:10 – How does Optonome earn their money? Percentage? Yearly fee? Hidden fees? 1:00:00 – Optonome does your marketing, too. 1:00:10 – Question: Is investigator position a telecommute or remote job? 1:02:50 – Question: Is their licensing needed? 1:04:20 – Scaling your agency. 1:08:35 – Learn how to delegate to scale your business. 1:09:40 – MENTOR course by Dr. Mike. 1:12:35 – Optonome takes care of your referrals. 1:13:55 – Hot spots enumerated. 1:15:00 – Raffle time 1:27:55 – The only way how to level up is to start your own business. 1:28:25 – Remember – FAST. 1:31:00 – Go back to your roots and feel valuable (again) with Optonome.

Interview with Jaleesa Mason, LPN - Admissions Director & Clinical Liaison in Huntingdon Health Jaleesa Mason, LPN talks about the services that they offer in Huntingdon Health. She will also discuss two important procedures or ways on how they qualify their patients to be in their facility. Find out more. In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia: 00:30 – Introduction of Jaleesa Mason 00:50 – What health care services do they offer? 01:25 – What health insurances do they take in? 01:50 – How does one qualify to be in their facility? 03:15 – How long do they stay for skilled nursing? 04:45 – Always remember – F.A.S.T 05:55 – Knowledge is power. For more information on Huntingdon Health and Rehab: Website http://huntingdonhealth.com FB https://www.facebook.com/HuntingdonHealth/ IG HuntingdonHealthandRehab 635 High Street Huntingdon, TN 38344 Jaleesa Mason, LPN (Admissions Director and Clinical Liaison) Email JMason@huntingdonhealth.com Phone number  731-986-8948 Work cellphone 731-394-1024

How do you become an awesome PhysioSecret guru? Be a Jared! Constantly working on yourself and your craft to become an awesome Physical Therapist and to be able to give the best treatment your patients deserve. Just be J.A.R.E.D! In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia: 01:45 – How do you become an awesome Physical Therapist? 01:50 – Be JARED 01:55 – JUMP into that niche and be the go-to-person with your skill. 02:30 – Niche down to scale up. 02:35 – Taking ACTION. 02:45 – Imperfect action beats perfect inaction. 03:10 – REPEAT and rinse. 03:50 – Don’t achieve perfection instead strive for excellence and progression. 04:35 – DO it.

It's never too late to pursue your passion. But you already know that deep down. - Ava Duvernay What is your passion? What is your purpose? Dr. Mike Chua talks briefly about the 4 P’s and gives us a gentle reminder that it is OK to fail. In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia: 00:50 – Question of the day: What is your passion? 01:10 – Four P’s (Passion, Productivity, Profit, Purpose) 03:00 – FAST (Friends, Action, Shoot, Teach) 04:55 – Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia seminar

Happy Valentine's my friends! So how do you Love? Be like my wife Puppen Chua Dr. Mike's advice on Valentine’s day – be a good lover. How do you become a good lover? Dr. Mike Chua gives an inspiring and well thought off acronym to his wife’s (PUPPEN) name. Find out more about this podcast. In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia: 01:05 – Be Positive. 01:25 – Be Uplifting. Uplift other people. 02:00 – Preserve your power. 02:50 – Be Patient. 03:00 – Energy. Know when and where to give out your energy. 03:20 – Never say No. Never say no to someone or something that you love.

Interview with Dr. Kenneth Carr, MD, FABFM - a Family Medicine Specialist in Weakley County Family Medicine Inc. Dr. Carr shares with us his knowledge about Dementia. Being a family medicine physician, he has encountered several types of patients with Dementia. And in this episode, he shares with us some best practices and preventive measures in dealing with dementia patients. In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia show: 00:30 – Introduction of Dr. Kenneth Carr 02:00 – What made Dr. Carr decide to be a physician? 03:25 – What are the most common types of patients that Dr. Carr sees in his practice? 06:30 – What’s the initial protocol that Dr. Carr follow? 08:15 – What is the common type of Dementia that he sees? 11:05 – Can Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s chorea be prevented? Or is it just a progressive disease? 14:10 – Tips on preventing Dementia. 14:40 – Can we prevent patient falls? 16:45 – Dr. Carr encourages using assistive devices to prevent injuries. Dr. Kenneth Carr’s contact info: Cellphone number 431 6473 Weakley County Family Medicine Inc. (731) 587 5353

Dementia and its Causes What is Dementia? What are the causes of Dementia? Is there a treatment regimen for Dementia? Can you recover from it? All these questions and more will be addressed in this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia. In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia: 01:20 – Dementia is a terminal disease. 01:43 – Identify true dementia vs. pseudodementia. 02:55 – Early and proper diagnosis plays a vital role in dementia treatment. 03:30 – We cannot change the destination of the disease but we can enjoy the journey. 04:20 – For caregivers and healthcare workers: Be realistic and learn to adjust to the situation. 05:30 – Seek immediate diagnosis to minimize from becoming worst. 05:50 – For family members: Learn to educate loved ones and family members. 06:40 – Give the patient the right to make decisions. 07:10 – Document what is working and what is not. 07:20 – Keep a journal of the Dementia journey. 08:20 – Not all medications has the same action to patients. 09:30 – The bigger the challenge the bigger the victory.

Interview with Dr. Susan Lowry of Martin Medical In this interview with Dr. Lowry, you will learn about the different types of Dementia and the common issues she sees in our community. Dr. Lowry gives highly recommended and practical tips on caring for patients with Dementia. You can visit their website https://www.martinmedicalctr.com/ or schedule an appointment, call 731-587-9511 In this episode of Misunderstanding Dementia show: 01:00 – Introduction of Dr. Susan Lowry 02:00 – Everyone gets a little forgetful is one of the first things we look for Dementia. 02:45 – Incontinence is another stage in Dementia. 03:00 – Several mini-mental status tests are done. 03:20 – Number one indication of dementia is someone drives and gets lost. 03:45 – ADLs are affected, 04:00 – Dementia runs in families. 04:20 – Donepezil (Aricept) delays the progression of regression but doesn’t stop it. Dementia is irreversible. 05:05 – Dr. Lowry recommends vitamin D supplements 5,000 units/day 05:50 – Another recommendation is routine. 06:00 – Crossword puzzle, word search, luminosity. 06:30 – Brain is a muscle that needs to be exercised. 06:50 – Have a good lunch and nap. 07:00 – Keep lights on during winter time. 07:30 - Practical tip: make it brighter in the house until it is time to go to bed. 08:00 – Keep Dementia patients in a routine. 08:30 – Hallucination and the alternate world are not unusual 09:05 – Don’t argue with patients when they have episodes of hallucination just redirect their attention. 09:40 – Time toileting is highly recommended. Don’t ask them to go instead tell them you are going to go. 10:30 – Self-help groups and resources like doctors and medicines are available. Home health, PT, nursing homes. 11:20 – Hospital is not their environment. Change in the environment gets them agitated and irritable. 11:50 – Keep on doing the same routine again and again in order for the brain the remember. 12:10 – Common question: When do you ask someone with Dementia to stop driving? Are there special tests and techniques or words and phrases to tell the patient? 12:30 – Limit driving. 12:45 – Watch income and beware of scammers. 14:00 – Things to watch out for before advising them to stop driving. 14:20 – Disable car, pull the trigger cap, hide the keys, take the car to the shop. 16:00 – When to get a POA and make bank arrangements on behalf of demented patients? 17:30 – Best medical insurance for patients with Dementia? 18:00 - Medicare Advantage vs. traditional Medicare. 19:40 – Make sure you call your local community, nursing home, hospital and local dementia units and figure out what they are accepting and the best type of insurance available for your loved ones. 22:30 – Parting advice from Dr. Mike Chua – FAST. Find, take Action, Shoot for the moon, Teach.

Sure reimbursement in shrinking, physios are getting laid off, and corporations are eating up the small clinics. But one man is defying the negativity day in and day out, and that's dementia expert and coach Mike Chua. In this episode Mike shares with us how to overcome our fear of becoming an entrepreneur, how to make money with alternative careers in healthcare, and how to maximize your impact as a new grad.Mike Chua is the Chief Inspiration Officer at TN Therapy Outsource, the author of MisUnderstanding Dementia, the cofounder of the Alternative Careers for Rehabilitation Professionals, and the host the Alternative Healthcare Careers and MisUnderstanding Dementia Podcasts. He is also a master at creating an acronym for anything...........Grab Mike's book "MisUnderstanding Dementia" here: https://amzn.to/30xpSrZMake sure to check out his podcast "MisUnderstanding Dementia" here: https://drmikechua.com/podcast-2/ and his podcast "Alternative Healthcare Careers" here: https://drmikechua.com/acg/..........Join Dr. Cooper's Facebook Group at www.facebook.com/groups/physiosecrets and make sure to grab your first masterclass for FREE at www.PHYSIOSecrets.com.

What kind of A. C. T. I. O. N. are you taking today? Is it good or bad? In life, we like to analyze things but sometimes we get caught in analysis-paralysis situation. In order for you to take the results that you want, you have to take action. And every time you are taking that action, you are attracting success in life. My special challenge for you today is, TAKE ACTION! It doesn't have to be perfect. Alex and Will on their lecture said, " In perfect action beats perfect inaction." You just have to take a little bit of action, a little bit of risk. In that way, you can achieve that next dream that you're wanting to achieve. Get the Caregiver's Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course - MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

I was a speaker on the Tennessee Healthcare Association. And a lady asked me how do I do the things that I do and I told her, it's just F. O. C. U. S. - Finish One Course Until Successful Most of the time we're like a squirrel looking left and right and we don't know what we're looking for. We just keep on getting that next Shining Object Syndrome. If you really want to be successful, learn to FOCUS- Finis One Course Until Successful and then find another thing to do. John Maxwell said on his podcast "Yes we need to have goals, but we also need a growth mindset." We always do this goal mindset and once we're done doing that goal we stop. I think we need what we need to do, according to John Maxwell, is to have a growth mindset. And that's what happens to us, whether you're a therapist or caregiver or nurse or medical rep at the Philippines back home, what I did before is I hit that goal and I stopped. When I pass the board exam 1999 for the Physical Therapy Board Exam, I stopped reading books. And that made me stagnant. But if you do a growth mindset, you're going to keep on growing, you're going to keep moving forward and being the best that you can be. Not only for yourself but also for your friends and family and for the people that surround you. Get the Caregiver's Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course - MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

How do I change my loved ones? How do I change jobs? How do I? I learned this from my wife, “You cannot change somebody else until you change yourself first.” And that’s what she did! She wanted me to quit smoking. She wanted me to be a better person. And you know what my wife did, instead of changing me, she changed herself. You start with Y. O. U. R. S. E. L. F. Change YOU first! People can motivate you but your habit will keep you going. There’s this thing that says “Motivation can get you started, but habits keep you going.” People can motivate you but if you’re not doing it yourself and not creating a habit for yourself, it’s not going to do you good. Learn to become an OVERCOMER and OUTSTANDING PERSON How do you become an overcomer? Basically, t’s pushing yourself to the next level. Believing and being outstanding in everything that you do. Learn how to be UNDERSTANDING That’s what my wife did. She kept on understanding me in order for me to be able to change. If she didn’t understand me, I won’t be able to change. READ, READ and READ Read positive and uplifting books. There’s a reason why I don’t get a newspaper anymore because all I hear and see is negative news. And now I’m starting to read more inspirational books, obviously the BIBLE. At least a minimum of 10 pages of positive and uplifting books. In order to change yourself, you need to keep on reading. Because faith comes from reading and hearing and seeing. STOP BEING SELFISH When you’re selfish and just thinking about yourself, it’s just going to be you. You won’t change that person or you won’t change your job. ENERGY or ENTHUSIASM You have to have that enthusiasm of not only changing that person but also changing yourself. LEARN HOW TO LOVE Love yourself, love the people around you. In that way, you can be the best that you can be. FAITH You have to have faith. Faith in that person, faith in yourself, and obviously, faith in GOD. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not yet seen. You may not see or you may not feel that change in that person. But if you’re changing yourself, you will eventually see that change in that person. That’s what faith is! Get the Caregiver’s Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course – MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

How Do You Communicate? What do your non-verbal signs convey? Most of the time, I go to a patient, I come in, I show my verbal and non-verbal signs and it really works! What are these verbal signs that we're talking about? V.E.R.B.A.L V - VOICE What's your voice? Are you raising your voice up? lowering down your voice? Do you have a big voice? You have to know what kind of voice are you showing to your patients. Is it a good sounding voice? or is it a positive voice? You need to learn how to do that E - ENGAGING Are you engaging with your patient? Are you engaging or connecting with that person? R- REACTIVE Are you being reactive? We don't want to be reactive, we want to be PRO-ACTIVE. In the Philippines, when I was working as a Medical Representative, we have this conference and we called it PRO-ACT. Basically, we are being pro-active with the plans that we have in life. So, we want to be pro-active instead of reacting. When we are talking to a person and we don't agree with their opinions, we try to be reactive. We don't want to be like that, we want to be pro-active. B- BODY LANGUAGE Are you putting your hands on your hip? Is your browse raising? What kind of body language are you showing? A - ASKING QUESTIONS Are you being interested or interesting? Most of the time, when we're talking we want to be interesting all about ourselves. But, you want to be interested in that person. L - LEARN HOW TO LOVE Love that person! You don't want to be lying, because who wants a lier? You want to be loving. You want to love that person! Learn how to love that person that you're talking to. Whether you're talking to a dementia patient, you're talking to an interviewer to look for another job, do these techniques. Verbal and Non-Verbal signs! Get the Caregiver's Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course - MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

I attended a certification course called Certified Online Training Professional. One of the Speaker there said, “Tell me I Forget, Teach me I Remember, Involve me, I Understand” something like that. Same thing with our Dementia patient. And I just realized that, if you’re telling a patient or a person that has Dementia and you’re telling, you’re telling, you’re telling that, they’ll forget that. Teach them, they’ll remember it but if you involve them in the activity, involve them in the staff that you’re trying to do they’ll understand it. I know some patients can’t understand it because they have problems in Dementia, but in general, in life, this is what we need to do anyway. If you’re telling somebody a procedure, they’ll probably forget that. But if you teach them how to do it, what to do it, they’re probably going to remember it. When you involve them and let them do it on themselves they going to understand that. And that’s the purpose of this group, this page, wanting for you to understand Dementia, and that is why it’s called MisUnderstanding Dementia. And I want you to understand more, not only the dementia process, not only the dementia disease but understand yourself more. “Tell me I Forget, Teach me I Remember, Involve me, I Understand”! Get the Caregiver's Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course - MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

Recap of 2-Day REHABpreneur Live Online Summit Today, I’m going to talk about the recap of the REHABpreneur Live Online Summit held last June 29 and 30, 2019. Several business owners with different business models came together in this awesome event to explain their different ways in doing their businesses and how they make money.   If you are a physical therapist (PT), an occupational therapist (OT), or a speech therapist and you’re in the fence of running to start a business and you don’t know what to do or where to start with so much noise around you, the online summit is for you. You can also check the replay to the link below if you were not able to join the online summit.   https://www.rehabpreneur.com/dallas Anthony Maritato, PT “Medicare + Cash”   Anthony (or Tony) spoke about Medicare and Cash -- how do you build Medicare,how do you build Cash, and where do you draw the line.   Prior to his talk, I have no clue on how to do that, and he showed it with his presentation. In my practice, I don’t build Medicare and I don’t build Cash as I build the Home Health Contracting straight up, but Tony basically laid out the plan and how someone can do it.   If you want to create another source of income, Tony pitches you from zero to Billing Medicare in a few weeks through his course. Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT “Pelvic/Women’s Health”   I didn’t realize that Jessica has a program that basically lays out for you what you need to do if you want to get into Pelvic and Women’s Health business. You gotta check it out because this business will blow up and is already blowing up.   How many therapists do you know who are currently doing Pelvic and Women’s Health? Not a lot. I’m telling you that this is the right time to get into it, to know and understand how can you tap into their market. Regardless if you are a female or a male therapist, there are different niches that you can get into. Asha Gummadi, PT MS, NCS “Telehealth for Rehab Professionals”   If you don’t know her, Asha is the winner of the National Geographic's “Chasing Genius Unlimited Innovation” Award. She won the award because she solved the problem in India on how you can deliver healthcare to hard-to-reach areas with people who needs help.   This is why she came up with a telehealth software called Therex Portal. This therapist is a problem solver. If you think about it, that's who we are. As therapists, we are all problem solvers.   This is the reason why I came up with the REHABpreneur Summit. Why did I put all this therapists together and talk about our business models? It is because I want to solve the problem of not knowing what to do, not knowing where to start, or not having time.   If you're a therapist and you're thinking that you don't have time, I'm gonna tell you this: You have 24 hours and I have 24 hours. I don't have 20 hours a day as we all have the same 24 hours a day. If we were able to do it, there's no excuse for you: you can do it as well.   If your excuse is having kids, I have kids, too. My wife and I raised our kids and they’re now 19 and 15 years old and we're still raising them. There's no excuse.   It's really dependent on how bad you want it, how bad do you want to change your situation. If you're satisfied working your 9-to-5 job and that's all you want to do until you retire and be dependent on the corporate system and get a paycheck, and that's your plan, if that's what you want to do then you don't need to listen to any business models or anyone who's separated from the 9-to-5 job.   But if you are tired of your 9-to-5 job, putting up with these impossible productivity, and wasting your time on stuff you don't really love but you have to do it because you have to make money, then you got to make a change. But how are you going to make a change if you're not even willing to learn what others have done?   Ask yourself: Is this for me? You have to ask yourself. You got to look at what's out there and then ask yourself if this is for you. Scott Harmon, OT “Outpatient Clinics”   Scott was the first presenter and he talked about how you can start an Outpatient Therapy business. He owns three clinics in Arkansas. Did he owned three clinics overnight? No, he started with one. Did I have up to 30 patients overnight? No, I started with one. You just gotta start with one. Actually, you just have to start.   Scott will teach you how you can start an Outpatient Therapy Clinic, whether it's pediatrics or geriatrics. He lays down what you need to do from beginning to the end.    There's no excuse and saying “I don't know what to do” if someone has done it before. You just got to learn from someone who's done it before.  Engelbert De Vera, PT “Home Health Contract Business”   We spoke about how you can start your own home health contract business, which is what I do. I contract with home health agencies. I have more than 100 therapists all over Texas. All PRN working for me. I can sleep well at night.   How the heck did I do that? I spoke about that and how you can do this without giving up your job. How can you start a business without diving in 100% and giving up your ability to make money? We don't want you to do that.   I don't want you to start a business and quit tomorrow and then hope that you're going to make money. Don't do that, especially if you're a family man or a family woman, you have a family to feed, you have bills to pay, or you have student loans to pay.   There's ways to do it gradually until you get to a point where you can decide that it's time to go one hundred percent. There's ways to do that. You can start a side hustle. Dr. Will Boyd and Dr. Alex Engar “Marketing Your Rehab Business”   Now, let's get into how can you get clients. Alex Engar and Will Boyd spoke about marketing and how you can get clients. Where can you find doctors of physical therapy talking about marketing? I'm not gonna go to a marketer who doesn't know anything about our industry.   Alex and Will basically showed us what you need to do. Is it all theory? No, it's not a theory. I'm one of their clients. I used to have few clients I was struggling with marketing, but when I started working with Alex and Will, they basically showed me what I need to do.   They showed me how to use Facebook to talk to all of you. I used to see Facebook as a place where someone who just don't have anything to do with their lives and just talk about random stuff about their lives. Then, I realized that Facebook is where we can all communicate, where we can all talk to our target market.   I'm talking to you right now. You are my target market, because you're a physical therapist, you're an occupational therapist, or your speech therapist, and I want you to know what you can do besides working the 9-to-5 job. I'm here to help you.   It may not be my model. It may not be Jessica's model, it may not be Scott's model; but whatever model works for you, look for that model. Find a style or business model that fits your personality, then look for someone who has done it and follow their path or even improve what path they've taken, and learn from it.   I'm ranting right now because I'm tired of hearing complaints. I'm tired of hearing therapists saying what they want to do but are doing nothing. I'm sick of hearing that.   Why am I sick of hearing you? I'm from the Philippines region. I came here in 1997, three weeks after getting married. I only had 3 weeks of honeymoon with my wife and I had to come over because I had a contract to fulfill. Compare yourself to that.   I travel thousands of miles to come here in pursuit of the American dream. If the person like me, an immigrant from the Philippines, came here and establish his own business, went through all the obstacles, trials and errors, then why can't you?   You can do it. You just have to believe in yourself and tell yourself that you’re going to set your mind and you’re going to do this, because if you don't, who will? If not now, when? If it's not you, then who will make that change for you and your family? You think the government will? No, the government can shut down in you. There's no such thing as job security.   You got to make the change that you want. You got to put effort into change that you want.   I'm challenging right now. What are you going to do? If you hate your situation, you hate your 9-to-5 job right now. You want to do something else? My question to you is what are you gonna do? Are you just gonna talk about it and complain about it? What are you going to do? I'm challenging you.   Tell me what you're going to do, and the next question is, are you going to do it? Or you just gonna complain about it, go home, talk to your partner that you hate it and it gave you too much patience, you hate the productivity, and all that? You can complain all you want, but what are you going to do about it?    If you're going to do it, the time is now. There's no such thing as perfect timing. You have to take action.   We are in the country that’s called “The Land of Opportunity”. It's true. There's a lot of opportunity around this. But opportunity will only come to those who want to take action.   I'm giving you an opportunity to learn the different business models. That's why we came up with REHABpreneur Online Summit. I showed you different business models through different speakers who've done it and still doing it. They’re not just theories or something you read in the books.   How can you do it? These guys have done it.  Rob Vining, PT “Telehealth for Rehab Professionals”   Rob is an expert in Telehealth. He basically laid out on how you can start Telehealth from the ground up and what you need to do.   If you still have excuses after watching these speakers and after showing you what you need to do, then that's on you.   I like what Bill Gates said that if you were born poor, that's not your fault because you can't choose the kind of family you're going to be born with. But if you die poor, that's your fault because you didn't do anything about it. Will Butler “Financial Preparation Precedes Entrepreneurial Performance”   Will is a physical therapist turned financial advisor. He spoke about how you can make money while doing business to make sure your bases are covered.   He discussed what can happen if you make money in your business and then you die one day without financial planning: What's going to happen to you? What's going to happen to your family?   He showed us the things you can do to plan for your future. What better way to learn how to plan financially than from a physical therapist like Will. Dr. Michael Chua, PT, DPT “MisUnderstanding Dementia”   Mike is a physical therapist from Martin, Tennessee. He basically taught us how you can come up with a book to establish your authority as the expert.   He wrote the book “MisUnderstanding Dementia”. Is he the only person that knows anything about dementia? No, but because he wrote the book “MisUnderstanding Dementia”, he now positioned himself as an authority in the physical therapy world or in the rehab world as a person who knows about dementia. He even got a certification as a dementia practitioner and he can help you get certified.   Now, he's getting invitation across the globe. He got invited in Japan to talk about this topic.   Guys, there's no excuses. I want you to be stronger than your excuses. If there's one thing I can leave with you today after this video, it is for you to be stronger than your excuses. Enough is enough.   Do what you got to do for your family. Find out your WHY: Why are you supposed to do what you got it? If your why is strong enough, you'll do it. If your why is not strong enough, you're not going to do it.   Have a good day, guys!

I just wanted to encourage and invite everyone! There's a new free group - Healthy Books - by Jeremy Sutton. You have to check it out. If you're a therapist, a dementia warrior, or a nurse, or somebody who is taking care of a dementia patient, then you need to write a book. You need to write your story, you need to write the stuff that you're going through. In that way, you can inspire other people on how to take care of their dementia patients because when you're writing, you're releasing happy hormones in your life. That's my special challenge for you today whether you're a nurse, a caregiver, or taking care of a loved one who has dementia. I need you to write a book and share what you're going through. It doesn't have to be detailed, but it will help you release stress and make you feel better. At the same time, having a journal will bring out the best for you and the patient you are taking care of. Write a book and share your story! Join the free FB group HEALTHY BOOKS by Jeremy Sutton Get the Caregiver's Freedom Journal here. Enroll in our new course - MisUnderstanding Dementia here.

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Dementia is not a disease in itself. Rather, it is a broad name referring to a long-term and gradual deterioration of a person’s mental ability. The condition can be severe enough to obstruct the sufferer’s daily life. Put simply, dementia occurs when the brain cells stop working as they should, affecting the person’s ability to think, remember, and communicate. Its usual symptoms include the difficulty of reasoning and thinking, gradual memory loss, and deteriorating communication skills. As Family and Professional Caregivers it is important that we properly understand dementia so we can provide the best care to our patients and loved ones. Dr. Michael Chua is a physical therapist that pracitces in Homes, Skilled Nursing Facilities and Acute Care Hospital environments. His clinical interest involves pain management, geriatrics and dementia management. He is also the Chief Inspirational Officer for TN Therapy Outsource and the author of MisUnderstanding Dementia.

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Misunderstanding Dementia Podcast With Erika Graham

In this podcast: 01:00 - Ralph tells us about his life so far 02:00 - Ralph tells us about Walk to End Alzheimer's 04:00 - Ralph tells us about how he ended up being the caregiver for his sister 05:00 - How did Ralph decide to take his relatives into a nursing home? 09:00 - Ralph talks about observing the staff in the nursing home 10:00 - What is Ralph's major struggle? 12:00 - Why does Ralph think caregivers experience burnout? 16:00 - Mike and Ralph talk about taking care of yourself first 17:00 - What is the one thing that Ralph wished he knew before everything happened 19:00 - What advice does Ralph want to give to other caregivers? 22:00 - Mike and Ralph talk about rest and self-care

Today we have Peter Berry as our guest today. Peter used to run a lumber business for 20 years, and he was just recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s three years ago. We talk about Alzheimer’s and we also want to talk about successes in life. Peter just recently finished 354 miles of riding a bicycle for a certain group in London. 02:00 – Peter tells us about himself. 05:00 – Peter talks about the time when he first found out about his Alzheimer’s diagnosis. 11:00 – Mike and Peter talk about focusing on your strengths. 16:00 – Peter talks about achievements and making your bed every morning. 21:00 – Mike and Peter talk about changing lives and being significant. 23:00 – What advice can Peter give to dementia caregivers?

Ashley Nicole Patterson is an activity assistant in a nursing home in Maryland. 01:00 – Ashley tells us about herself 03:00 – How did Ashley become an activity assistant? 06:00 – Ashley talks about the activities they do to help their patients’ cognitive skills 07:30 – Ashley talks about the struggles of caring for patients 10:15 – Why do caregivers experience burnout? 13:00 – What is helping Ashley in her journey in taking care of her patients? 14:00 – Mike and Ashley talk about appreciation 16:00 – What advice does Ashley want to share to the caregivers out there? 19:00 – Mike talks about focusing on your patients’ strengths

MisUnderstanding Dementia Podcast With Guest Chad Welch

Episode 3: Dr. Mike Chua Founder of DrMikeChua.com and Author of MisUnderstanding Dementia discusses the following: -How to create a buisness out of just one idea -Becoming a Facebook live expert -How to scale your buisness using virtual assistants -How to correctly hire a virtual assistant For 50% off of his understanding dementia course, use the code "fire". First 50 listeners only so hurry!! For more information and show notes: https://debtfreept.com/podcast

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