Dementia education, support and advice with Think Dementia
Recommended Resources
Alzheimer's Association
Alzheimer's Association- this website provides resources for more than Alzheimer's- other types of dementia are addressed here also.
Alzheimer's Association Support Groups- find a support group to join
Alzheimer's Association Help Line
24/7 HELPLINE800.272.3900
Roseville Alzheimer's and Dementia Community Action Team
This volunteer community action team formed over 10 years ago and Amy House has been a faithful volunteer since its early days. This website has a wealth of resources available in Roseville, MN, the Twin Cities and beyond including past presentations by experts from the Twin Cities including Amy House.
https://www.cityofroseville.com/2721/Alzheimers-Dementia
Dementia Friendly Airports Working Group
The Dementia friendly Airports Working Group is a group of volunteers that formed as a spin off of the Rosevills Alzheimr's and Dementia Community Action Team in 2019. Amy House has given time to this since it's beginning and has led initiatives including the creation of short videos by Teepa Snow, OT that discuss how dementia symptoms can happen at the airport and how to support someone living with dementia while traveling. Most recently Amy presented at the MSP International Airport to staff of different areas to help them continue to be more dementia friendly. There are many tips on the website for traveling.
https://www.dementiafriendlyairports.com/
Lewy Body Association
The Lewy Body Association has resources that are very helpful for this type of dementia and information on specific support groups for the persons living with LBD and their care partners.
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration
Writer Leigh Herrick Blog
Leigh Herrick is a Minnesota writer and former caregiver for her mother who had vascular dementia. Leigh was in Amy House's support group and after her mother's passing is a now a trained co-facilitator for Amy's groups with the Alzheimer's Association. Leigh posts resources after discussions at the group to help anyone on the journey.
The Minnesota Elder Justice Center
MN Elder Justice Center provides resources and support for older adults and their families concerning maltreatment and financial exploitation and legal matters. There are free video recorded webinars on a variety of topics.
Positive Approach to Care
Amy House is a Independent Certified Positive Approach to Care Trainer with Teepa Snow's organization. Teepa's website has a variety of links to videos, podcasts, articles and resources.
SilverCrest Staycations
The Roseville AD and the Ramsey County Library assisted Amy House in the creation of the SilverCrest Staycations. The staycations are a list of Twin Cities day trips created to empower the care partner with great information on each location and ideas on how to engage. These day trips are all evaluated by Amy House and the residents at her Memory Care and are to inspire everyone to get out of the house and enjoy their community in the earlier stages of dementia.
Compassion and Choices
This website has a great planning tool for planning how the person living with dementia would like to live during their journey and what medical decisions they want their family to make in case of different scenarios. It is called the Dementia Values and Priorities Tool
https://www.compassionandchoices.org/living-and-dying-with-dementia
NEW FREE Medicare GUIDE Dementia Program
Information by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can be found here: https://www.cms.gov/priorities/innovation/innovation-models/guide
Contact Tembo Health if you would like to be enrolled in the Medicare GUIDE program for people living with dementia and their care partners: www.tembo.health
Contact Amy directly to be on her Minnesota Care Navigation case load through Tembo Health: