Everything Dementia
Independent Living with
Early to Moderate Dementia
Melissa's Talking Ageing workshops — here to help your family on the ageing, dementia and caregiving journeys 🙏🏼
Promoting independence, safety
& enriching daily life
This section is for you if your Mum/Dad still living at home or in independent/retirement living, and Mum/Dad are not requiring formal /professional care (earlier stages of dementia)
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Defining a meaningful life; what matters most to Mom?
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Making home safer to live in, including checklists
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Practical strategies to safely navigating the community
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Communication strategies to maintain Mom's social connections and keep her engaged in conversations
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Safety with medications
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Managing household chores
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Losing everyday items, maintaining a calendar etc.
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Practical strategies to helping your parent maintain paid or volunteer work
This module is for you, if you:
✔️ Overwhelmed with all the diagnoses, appointments, cognitive decline
✔️ Constantly worrying about your parent's safety when they're home alone
✔️ Unsure how to introduce support services without arguing with your parents
✔️ Feeling guilty for considering any alternative to your parent staying at home
✔️ Struggling to balance your parent's care with your own family and work responsibilities
✔️ Concerned about your parent forgetting to take medications or attend appointments
✔️ Worried about the financial implications of long-term care
After this workshop, you will:
✔️ Confident in addressing safety risks in your parent's home
✔️ Living my mantra: "What matters to you, not what's the matter with you"
✔️ Capable of helping your parent maintain dignity and quality of life at home
✔️ Strategies for promoting safety in navigating the community
✔️ Communication strategies to help Mum engage in more conversations
✔️ Reassured that you're making informed decisions in your parent's best interest
✔️ Knowledgeable about available home care services and assistive technologies
All three stages of Dementia are included in Talking Ageing membership
What to do when Mom's reality is different to yours? Do I always tell the truth?
Mom/Dad living with more progressed dementia, may still be living at home or in Residential Aged Care Home, requiring more care with daily living
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Caring feels hard, because it is hard: The importance of self-care, finding your why, sharing the care (it truly takes a village), and filling your cup
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What to do when Mom's reality/memory is different to yours, and do I always tell the truth? (she doesn't know that Dad has passed away, she wants to go home etc.)
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Strategies for tricky moments (repetitive questions, calling you in the middle of the night etc.)
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Communication (verbal and non-verbal)
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Practical strategies for daily living (personal care, medication etc.)
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Optimising dementia care at residential aged care
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Questions for Mom's GP
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This module is for you, if you are:
✔️ Heartbroken watching your parent struggle with their memory
✔️ Grieving the loss of the parent you once knew while they're still physically present
✔️ Struggling to communicate with a parent who has a different version of reality
✔️ Frustrated from answering the same questions over and over again
✔️ Or unsure when to tell mum the truth?
✔️ Do I repeatedly explain that their spouse died many years ago
✔️ And feeling guilty when you get frustrated or upset with your parent's behaviour
✔️ Worried about your parent's safety and well-being when they're confused or agitated
✔️ Exhausted from balancing caregiving with your own life responsibilities
✔️ Worried about the financial implications of long-term care
After this workshop, you will:
✔️ Confident in addressing safety risks in your parent's home
✔️ Living my mantra: "What matters to you, not what's the matter with you"
✔️ Capable of helping your parent maintain dignity and quality of life at home
✔️ Strategies for promoting safety in navigating the community
✔️ Communication strategies to help Mum engage in more conversations
✔️ Reassured that you're making informed decisions in your parent's best interest
✔️ Knowledgeable about available home care services and assistive technologies
All three stages of Dementia are included in Talking Ageing membership
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With Talking Ageing, you're never alone.
My promise to you is that together, we'll solve problems, you'll have more clarity for today, and you'll understand the options and next steps for tomorrow.
I will provide you with the same strategies, knowledge, scripts, resources and exercises that I've given to 1,000+ families face-to-face.
Melissa
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