Your questions answered & finding local support. After a dementia diagnosis, finding local support is crucial. This could include adult day care programs, which provide social activities and supervision in a safe setting. In-home care services can offer assistance with daily tasks and personal care. For families who need more intensive support, residential care facilities provide full-time care. No matter the chosen path, understanding dementia basics like communication strategies and safety precautions is essential for navigating this journey.

Our Guest: Valarie Drown

When it comes to Caregiving, Valarie Drown MS, NCC, LMHC is an expert. Drown currently serves as the project director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Support Initiative (ADCSI), which provides free support services to those caring for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in northern New York. She is also the caregiver for both her mother with Alzheimer’s disease and son who at age six was diagnosed with mental and physical developmental disabilities.

Drown is passionate about the work she does and knows firsthand the challenges of caregiving. To Drown, everyone has a different way of navigating memory care and there is no right or wrong path. She has found it critically important to make sure caregivers know they need to take time for themselves.

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After helping care for her grandmother who had vascular dementia, Jennifer realized her Mother was showing signs of early onset Alzheimer’s. After the death of her father in 2017 Jennifer went searching for answers to many of the common questions and Alzheimer’s caregiver faces. Being a busy entrepreneur Jennifer realized that a podcast would be the easiest way to learn more about caregiving while completing other tasks.

Sadly, in late 2017 she only found one and it didn’t quite address what she was looking for, so she did the next best thing, and started her own. The Fading Memories podcast is now in it’s fourth year and despite the death of her Mom in March 2020, Jennifer is still talking to caregivers and still learning how to be an excellent caregiver. On the podcast she discusses caregiving, brain health, self-care and how to age well.