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Dementia Decoded: The 3 Stages Every Caregiver Must Recognize Before It's Too Late
The free training that shows you exactly what's happening in your loved one's brain right now — and the specific words, routines, and responses that bring calm instead of chaos at every stage.
Hosted by "Sam" Cradduck
Tuesday, August 11th @ 9am PST/12pm EST
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What you will learn:
Recognize three seasons of dementia care and better understand the changes your family may be seeing, so you can prepare for changing needs without expecting the journey to follow one exact path.
Learn why correcting, reasoning, or repeatedly explaining can sometimes increase distress, and discover words and responses that may help the person feel safer, heard, and supported.
Understand what may be beneath repeated questions, forgotten names, resistance, suspicion, or agitation, so you can take the behavior less personally and respond with greater understanding.
Recognize the well-intended ways families may begin doing too much too soon, and learn how to provide support while continuing to protect remaining ability, choice, participation, and dignity.
The "Stage Test" — a simple way to identify exactly where your loved one is in their dementia progression, so you stop guessing and start preparing for what's actually coming next
The #1 phrase caregivers say that makes agitation worse (and the one that calms a confused loved one down in seconds — most families are taught the opposite)
Why "just be patient" is terrible advice — and the real reason your loved one repeats questions, forgets your name, or gets combative (it's not what you think, and it's not your fault)
The caregiving mistake that speeds up decline — a well-meaning habit almost every family does in Stage 1 that actually accelerates confusion in Stage 2 and 3
Hosted by:
"Sam" Cradduck
“Sam” Cradduck is a gerontologist, co-host of the Aging Untold podcast, and founder of More Than Heart, a caregiver training program built on one belief: care should never come at the cost of dignity. She has spent her career translating clinical dementia research into plain language a family caregiver can actually use at 2am, not just in a textbook.
