Dementia Demystified by Tim England.
Begin your journey to De-mystify and De-stigmatise dementia in your community and become a fellow advocate for people living with dementia and their families to live well.
Dementia Demystified is hosted and created by Tim England who is a Dementia Champion and a leading voice on dementia in Australia. Being a dementia consultant and educator who De-mystifies and De-stigmatises dementia Tim advocate for people living with dementia and their families to live well.
Dementia is an insidious condition and it tenacles infiltrate all levels of societies, and dementia is a challenging topic to discuss. Fear and stigma are associated with dementia and many actively avoid the subject. There is a great deal of misunderstanding, misinformation and many outdated myths linked to dementia.
This podcast series aims to change this by being an information bridge between the scientific community and the public regarding dementia related topics. Being short in length, each episode targets a single dementia element while using simple non-complicated terms and language.
If you have a loved one living with dementia. If you want to smash the myths and miss information about dementia. If you desire to help people living with dementia and their families to live well. Then these podcasts are for you.
Episodes
31 episodes
Rehabilitation in Dementia Care.
Imagine you had an illness like diabetes, an injury like a broken leg, or have just undergone surgery of some kind … you’d have access to individualised rehabilitation after the diagnosis and/or surgery…. Of course you would, because the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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9:55
What is Young Onset Dementia.
People with Young Onset Dementia have different experiences and often different symptoms to older people with dementia and the impact on their lives is also significantly different.Young onset dementia is any form of dementia that occurs...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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8:07
What is a Personal Health Plan and why you need it.
Is there a need for a Personal Health Plan for someone with dementia? The answer is.. Yes… absolutely….A person with dementia needs a Personal Health Plan. It’s does not matter where a person is with their dementia, their age and/or what ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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8:11
10 Things I believe People with Dementia Wished You Knew.
Although we understand what and why things change for people living with dementia, we need to remember the pioneering work of Tom Kitwood in 1997. Tom Kitwood’s statement of ‘If you have met one person with dementia, you have only m...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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8:37
Bad Thoughts Dementia Caregivers Have, But Don't Talk About.
If you care for a loved one living with dementia, do you often feel emotions and have thoughts that are hard to admit? If you do …. That’s OK, … it’s quite normal and you are not alone. In this episode you and I will dive into...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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9:36
5 Golden Rules for Dementia.
We humans all desire to feel valued, loved, respected and safe. This is the same for your loved one with dementia. They desire the same thing. But we as caregivers often forget these core conventions. Dementia is a condition with cognitive decl...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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9:04
How is Dementia Diagnosed. A short discussion.
In previous episodes you discovered that dementia is not a disease. Dementia is a brain disorder that is caused by disease or injury, and there are over 100 causes of dementia. We have also discussed that dementia is very difficult ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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10:06
Driving and Dementia.
A dementia diagnosis does not necessarily mean that a person with dementia have to stop driving straight away. However, because the condition involves a gradual decline in both cognitive and physical ability, they will need to stop driving at s...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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8:38
Quality Dementia Education for Everyone.
In Australia there are national organisations that provide quality dementia education, much of this is government funded. These organisations offered Introductory, Foundational and Enhanced Practice programs to a broad range of healthcare profe...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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10:44
Fighting dementia Stigma and discrimination. What you can do.
When I was about 10 years of age, people around me did not talk about the ‘C’ word. The ‘C’ was cancer. But today, we as a community talk openly about cancer, and cancer is no longer a taboo subject of conversation. However, dementia is the C w...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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9:24
Introduction - Simple ways to make a home dementia friendly.
The world can appear to be a very confusing place for your loved one with dementia because the way they see, feels and interprets the world around them can be very different to you.It’s important to remember, for a your loved one with d...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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10:21
10 Things I believe doctors should tell you.
Many families have told me that during doctor visits, that often doctors do not discuss some basic information about dementia. This includes, what could and may happen, how their loved one may respond to dementia, what therapeutic options are a...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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8:45
Childhood Dementia … Yes, it’s a thing.
Please think about this… ‘Right now, thousands of children are suffering and dying slowly with dementia and most people don’t know about it’. This is a quote from Megan Maack, CEO of the Childhood Dementia Initiative, which was ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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7:17
Advance Care Directive.
In Australia, and in other countries, you as a competent adult has the legal right to accept or decline any medical treatment. It’s the same in many other countries. You have choice with your health care and medical care. However, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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9:01
Mild Cognitive Impairment – is it dementia or not?
You and I are human beings and because of this we are subject to the human condition. The human condition incorporates both positive aspects like joy and love, as well as negative aspects like ageing, and mortality. This unfortunately includes ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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7:51
Nursing Home Care – when is it needed?
I’ve worked with many family carers over the years, and I’m asked many, many challenging questions. One of the common questions I’m asked is ‘When will we know it’s time for nursing home care for my loved one who has dementia?’ My ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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8:23
What are the different stages of dementia? The 3 stage and 7 stage models explained.
There are 2 popular models that explain the different stages of dementia. These are:- a 3-Stage dementia model and a 7-Stage dementia model. But before we compare these models you need to think about dementia as being ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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13:05
How long does dementia last?
I’m a leading voice on dementia in Australia with a Masters of Dementia and a Bachelor of Dementia Care.Many consider me an expert in dementia, and I am often asked a very confronting question by families. How long will...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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9:33
Next steps after a Dementia diagnosis.
So, you or your loved one have been diagnosed with dementia. Now what? What do you do now? It can be difficult to accept a dementia diagnosis. Fear, anger, denial and sadness are just a few of the emotions you or your loved one may ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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9:01
More Myths of Dementia.
This is the first episode of Series 2. In the first series there is a short podcast called ‘Some Myths of Dementia’. That episode listed many common and outdated myths, and miss understandings about dementia. These misbeliefs...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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8:14
Why are dementia cases increasing worldwide?
Here are some sobering facts. Someone in the world develops dementia every 3 seconds. There are over 55 million people worldwide living with dementia in 2024. This number is expected to almost double every 20 years reaching over 140 million by ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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7:36
Dementia Communication Strategies.
There's been a lot of research around communication and dementia. Research suggests very strongly that many people in dementia care settings do not modify their communication strategies to suit the changing stages of dementia. This can result i...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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15:12
How the brain is physically changed due to dementia
From previous episodes you have learned that dementia is not a disease but is a brain disorder caused by disease. Dementia is not a normal part of ageing and it’s the result from damage to nerve cells and their connections. But what is the unde...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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8:18
The 3 D’s of confusion - Dementia, Delirium and Depression
As we age, many adults are affected by Dementia, Delirium and/or Depression. It’s understood that Dementia is not a normal part of ageing, and it’s the same for Delirium and Depression. However, all three conditions are very different from one ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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8:24
How to Help a Lost or confused person
If you saw a child in the street who appeared lost, worried, and confused, you’d help them… RIGHT…? But what would you do if it was an older person displaying the same signs? What would you do then? Unfortunately, members of the public of...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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9:58