Podcast appearances and mentions of paula spencer scott

Paula Spencer Scott is a long-time journalist and health and family-life specialist focusing on self-care, eldercare, and baby care. She's the author of the bestseller “Surviving Alzheimer's: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers” and the recently released “When Your Aging Parent Needs Help: A Geriatrician's Step-by-Step Guide to Memory Loss, Resistance, Safety Worries, & More” with Dr. Leslie Kernisan. Paula experienced dementia in five of her immediate family members, including her live-in father-in-law, and took on a variety of caring roles. This gave her the precious insight and advice that flows throughout her caregiver guides. Paula's work may be familiar to you. She's been published in a variety of mainstream magazines and online platforms, including Woman's Day, Parade, AARP Bulletin, Newsweek, PBS Next Avenue, Glamour, Reader's Digest, USA Weekend, Caring.com, and WebMD, to name a few. She has earned writing awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Arthritis Foundation, the National Political Women's Caucus, and the Western Publishing Association. Her other books include “Momfidence” and a series of interactive journals for Peter Pauper Press: Pregnancy Journal, An Oral History: Preserve Your Family's Story, Mother and Son, and Like Mother, Like Daughter: A Discovery Journal for the Two of Us (written with her daughter, Page). In this episode we discuss the Cardinal Rules of Dementia Care, three things you can change about your dementia journey, and how knowledge can be a form of self-care. Read Paula's AlzAuthors Post: https://alzauthors.com/2016/12/28/meet-paula-spencer-scott-author-of-surviving-alzheimers-practical-tips-and-soul-saving-wisdom-for-caregivers/ Start reading Surviving Alzheimer's https://amzn.to/3uXlpxk and When Your Aging Parent Needs Help https://amzn.to/3ecYsQW now! Note: We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission from book sales. Connect with Paula Spencer Scott Websites: Surviving Alzheimer's…Together: https://www.survivingalz.net/ Paula Spencer Scott: https://www.paulaspencerscott.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/survivingalz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PSpencerScott LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forpaulaspencerscott/ Paula's Recommended Resources Better Health While Aging: BetterHealthWhileAging.net. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Colorado State University: https://courses.online.colostate.edu Mindspan: Stay Sharp All Your Lifetime Through Better Brain Health Dementia Together: dementiatogether.org Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe so you don't miss a word. If our authors' stories move you please leave a review. And don't forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys. AlzAuthors is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer's and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please visit https://alzauthors.com/donate/ . Thank you for listening.

Paula Spencer Scott is a long-time journalist and health and family-life specialist focusing on self-care, eldercare, and baby care. She's the author of the bestseller “Surviving Alzheimer's: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers” and the recently released “When Your Aging Parent Needs Help: A Geriatrician's Step-by-Step Guide to Memory Loss, Resistance, Safety Worries, & More” with Dr. Leslie Kernisan Paula experienced dementia in five of her immediate family members, including her live-in father-in-law, and took on a variety of caring roles. This gave her the precious insight and advice that flows throughout her caregiver guides.​​ Paula’s work may be familiar to you. She’s been published in a variety of mainstream magazines and online platforms, including Woman's Day, Parade, AARP Bulletin, Newsweek, PBS Next Avenue, Glamour, Reader's Digest, USA Weekend, Caring.com, and WebMD, to name a few. ​She has earned writing awards from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Arthritis Foundation, the National Political Women's Caucus, and the Western Publishing Association. Her other books include “Momfidence” and a series of interactive journals for Peter Pauper Press: Pregnancy Journal, An Oral History: Preserve Your Family's Story, Mother and Son, and Like Mother, Like Daughter: A Discovery Journal for the Two of Us (written with her daughter, Page). In this episode we discuss the Cardinal Rules of Dementia Care, three things you can change about your dementia journey, and how knowledge can be a form of self-care. Read Paula’s AlzAuthors Post: https://alzauthors.com/2016/12/28/meet-paula-spencer-scott-author-of-surviving-alzheimers-practical-tips-and-soul-saving-wisdom-for-caregivers/ Start reading Surviving Alzheimer’s https://amzn.to/3uXlpxk and When Your Aging Parent Needs Help https://amzn.to/3ecYsQW now! Note: We are an Amazon Associate and may receive a small commission from book sales. Connect with Paula Spencer Scott Websites:  Surviving Alzheimer’s…Together: https://www.survivingalz.net/ Paula Spencer Scott: https://www.paulaspencerscott.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/survivingalz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PSpencerScott LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forpaulaspencerscott/ Paula’s Recommended Resources Better Health While Aging: BetterHealthWhileAging.net. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Colorado State University: https://courses.online.colostate.edu Mindspan: Stay Sharp All Your Lifetime Through Better Brain Health  Dementia Together: dementiatogether.org  Each season our podcast brings you six of our authors sharing their dementia journeys. Please subscribe so you don’t miss a word. If our authors’ stories move you please leave a review. And don’t forget to share our podcast with family and friends in need of knowledge, comfort and support on their own dementia journeys. AlzAuthors is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization totally reliant on donations to do what we do. Your generosity will help cover our many operating costs, which include website hosting and maintenance fees, service charges to keep things running smoothly, and marketing expenses to promote our authors, expand our content, improve our reach, and more. Our ongoing work supports our mission to lift the silence and stigma of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. To sustain our efforts please visit https://alzauthors.com/donate/ . Thank you for listening.

Are you an interactive journal fan? Unfamiliar with them? We talk with author Paula Spencer Scott about how a love of writing can help foster a love of reading and how to use interactive journals to strengthen our bonds with our children in interactive journaling in the new year with Paula Spencer Scott. This week we are joined by Paula Spencer Scott, author and co-author of more than a dozen books. Her work includes Surviving Alzheimer's and The Happiest Toddler on the Block and four different interactive journals. One of her journals, Like Mother, Like Daughter: A Discovery Journal for the Two of Us was a joint project with her own daughter, Page Spencer. She put all this knowledge and experience to work raising her and her husband’s six children and we are so glad she joined us to chat about all of this! In this episode we talk about: 1. “Writing is a skill deeply fused with reading.” The two skills go hand-in-hand, but we often overlook the writing part of the equation at home with our families. 2. Interactive journals are a great way to start incorporating writing time into your family time. These journals provide you with prompts to get you started and some, like two of the ones Paula has written, are designed for two people to write together. We talk about the bonding experience of reading together, but these journals can create a bonding experience through writing! 3. Paula has seen many benefits come from keeping a journal in her and her kids’ lives. Anything you do longhand is great for fine motor skills practice. Journaling helps kids become closer observers of what is going on around themIt creates a time capsule where you can go back and remember what happens in their lives and how they change.Emotional benefits- it is a safe place to vent, use their imaginations, set goals, work through how life works and social systems. 4. Another great idea Paula gave us is to do vacation journals. She would give her kids blank books for trips they took for them to write their stories and create a momento. This adds a whole new level of using books when you travel! 5. Paula reminds us that journals should be fun! Have special colored markers or a book they pick out themselves. Don’t correct their grammar or spelling- the important thing is that they are just doing it! 6. Along with keeping journals, Paula had some other great ideas to write more at home with our kids. She suggested letting our kids see us use our skills and write things down, even when we could do the task using a device. Have a dedicated writing space with fun pencils, colored paper, dry erase boards or chalkboards. Using sidewalk chalk to write. Have your kids write thank you notes or birthday cards. Her kids loved creating and writing scavenger hunts for each other.  Paula left us with a great idea of how to get started on putting these great ideas into practice this week. She invited us to pick a fun book together with your child, whether it’s an interactive journal or just a blank notebook, get a couple of fun pens and start with a question to them. Once they write their answer, have them write a question for you to answer. For younger kids, ask them the questions and write their answers and responding questions for them. Interactive Journaling in the New Year We are so grateful to Paula for taking the time to talk with us! More information about her, her books and her journals can be found in the following places: Websites: Paula Spencer Scott's website You can find Paula's interactive journals along with others at her publisher's website, Peter Pauper Press. Books we mentioned: The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About The Mind by Alison Gopnik The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Alzheimer's Speaks Radio – Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sounds news, not just sound bites. Today Lori La Bey, host of Alzheimer's Speaks Radio talks with Paula Spencer Scott who is the author ofSurviving Alzheimer’s: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregiverswhich Lori personally believes is one of the best resource books available for those touched by dementia. Paula has had five family members diagnosed dementia.  She understands the journey from a deep personal level. Contact Paula Spencer Scott Website:www.SurvivingAlz.net          FaceBook: SurvivingAlz Surviving Alzheimer’s: Practical Tips and Soul-Saving Wisdom for Caregivers  Available as Paperback or on Kindle            Amazon              Barnes & Noble   Additional Resources Available on Alzheimer's Speaks           Speaker/Trainer/Consultant

Plenty of questions arise as a result of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Should you tell your loved one about his/her diagnosis?…When is the right time to put your loved one in a nursing home?…even Can a care-giving spouse date? Paula Spencer Scott, author and expert on dementia and family care, answers all those questions and many more in this edition of The Bottom Line Advocator.  Check out Paula Spencer Scott’s latest book, Surviving Alzheimer’s or visit her website.

Alzheimer’s patients generally fall into one of four personality “patterns” as their disease progresses. Knowing and understanding the pattern you’re dealing with helps both patient and caregiver. In this edition of The Bottom Line Advocator, Paula Spencer Scott, expert on Alzheimer’s and caregiving, explains how to identify and cope with these four personality types. Check out Paula Spencer Scott’s latest book, Surviving Alzheimer’s or visit her website.

Becoming a caregiver to an ailing loved one is a life-changing task to take on, and understanding the emotions that come with it are crucial to maintaining a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. In this edition of The Bottom Line Advocator, Paula Spencer Scott discusses these emotions and, more importantly, addresses how to effectively deal with them.   Check out Paula Spencer Scott’s latest book, Surviving Alzheimer’s or visit her website.

Dr. K talks with Paula Spencer Scott, author of the practical guide "Surviving Alzheimer s." They discuss how family caregivers can learn to manage difficult dementia behaviors, to maintain their sanity and better care for a loved one while minimizing risky medication use. They also cover a 7-step process that can be used to work through common problem situations. The post 067 Interview: Managing Difficult Alzheimer’s Behaviors Without Medications appeared first on Better Health While Aging.

I originally titled this "Are We In A Kindness Crisis?  Then I saw this beautiful picture and decided that was a 'kinder' portrayal of what I share on my show today. But make no mistake, we are, indeed, in a kindness crisis.  My show was inspired by an article on January 1, 2017 titled: "Let's Make 2017 the Year of Being Kind" by Paula Spencer Scott, featured in the Sunday Parade magazine. I've included some of what it talks about, but it doesn't take reading an article to know that being kind every day is a pretty simple thing to do with monumental benefits.  When you, yourself are kind, wow, feels marvelous, especially being kind to someone that annoys you. And how good does it feel when you're the recipient of an act of kindness.  Someone lets you cut in line at the grocery store because you have 1 item, they have 20.  Maybe not significant in your playbook, but together, all of us doing this kind of thing every day... I truly believe this quote: "Kindness is showing Love. I believe that KINDNESS is the cure to violence and hatred around the WORLD." --Lady Gaga And I'm sure you're going okay you're going 'Pollyanna' on us, but think about it. If we really did do this every day, the majority of us, I truly believe it would have an enormous impact. Please listen, comment and share, someone may need to hear this more than you. Passing On A Smile, Gail P.S. On Wednesday  Cynthia Bazin and I will be talking about communication.  Then Thursday we are doing a BeLive continuing the conversation.  And Friday you'll hear me interview, Awilda Rivera, Success Coach and Spiritual Advisor.  Hope you join us, subscribe to make sure you never miss a show :-)  

In a recent Huffington Post article, Paula Spencer Scott of Kinstantly.com wrote about Psychologist Jeffrey Froh, a professor and leading gratitude researcher who wrote a book called “Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character.  He wrote about this thing called “culture of appreciation”.  In order to do this we have to recognize 3 things: 1) The intent: that somebody put me first 2) The cost: what someone gave up for me 3) The benefit: what I got out of it An  example you would say to your child:  “Hey Rosemary, that was pretty nice of Sara to help you with your math when she knew you were struggling [intent]  I can't beleive she gave up for soccer time to help you [cost] – but how great that you now know your four times-tables [benefit] Here are 14 Tips to Help Children Be Grateful: 1. Teach them to say Thank You – We do this when they are very little 2. Have them write a thank you note – birthdays, holidays 3. Read books or poems about gratitude – Go to Amazon and type in gratitude books for kids 4. Share stories about their past 5. Share stories about their family history 6. At a meal, everyone shares something they are thankful for.  We do this at Thanksgiving, but I can see it needs to be done more often. 7. Write or say what they are thankful about someone within their own family 8. Notice little things, like in nature 9. Have them make something for someone else – draw a picture, build something 10. Have them do something nice for a neighbor – rake leaves, wash their car, take out their trash 11. Give them experiences versus stuff 12. Help them figure out what matters to them – …

In a recent Huffington Post article, Paula Spencer Scott of Kinstantly.com wrote about Psychologist Jeffrey Froh, a professor and leading gratitude researcher who wrote a book called “Making Grateful Kids: The Science of Building Character. He wrote about this thing called “culture of appreciation”. In order to do this we have to recognize 3 things: 1) The intent: that somebody put me first 2) The cost: what someone gave up for me 3) The benefit: what I got out of it An example you would say to your child: “Hey Rosemary, that was pretty nice of Sara to help you with your math when she knew you were struggling [intent] I can't beleive she gave up for soccer time to help you [cost] – but how great that you now know your four times-tables [benefit] Here are 14 Tips to Help Children Be Grateful: 1. Teach them to say Thank You – We do this when they are very little 2. Have them write a thank you note – birthdays, holidays 3. Read books or poems about gratitude – Go to Amazon and type in gratitude books for kids 4. Share stories about their past 5. Share stories about their family history 6. At a meal, everyone shares something they are thankful for. We do this at Thanksgiving, but I can see it needs to be done more often. 7. Write or say what they are thankful about someone within their own family 8. Notice little things, like in nature 9. Have them make something for someone else – draw a picture, build something 10. Have them do something nice for a neighbor – rake leaves, wash their car, take out their trash 11. Give them experiences versus stuff 12. Help them figure out what matters to them – …

Welcome to Alzheimer's Speaks Radio where we listen to all voices at all levels regarding Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.  Today we are pleased to have Paula Spencer Scott, Author of Surviving Alzheimer's: Practical tips and soul-saving wisdom for caregivers. Surviving Alzheimer's is available via Amazon.com Paula can be reached at either website: survivingalzheimersbook.com or paulaspencerscott.com Author Vicki Tapia  author of Somebody Stole My Iron will also be with us the second half of theprogram to discuss her journey with dementia. Email Vicki  or go to herwebsite  You can also contact her publisher via Email, Website  or phone at 806.673.3901. Books can be purchased as paperback or eBooks via our website and on Amazon.  Check out Alzheimer's Speaks Website for more resoures and information - Blog, Free Webinars, Tools, Resource Directory and more.Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.