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10 Must-Know Strategies for Bathing Your Person with Dementia

Bath time doesn’t have to be a battle! If bathing your person with dementia feels like a daily struggle, you’re not alone. But with the right strategies, you can make it easier, safer, and less stressful for both of you. Join me for this must-attend webinar where I'll share 10 essential techniques to turn bath time from a challenge into a success. - What You’ll Learn: ✔️ The #1 reason your person resists bathing, and how to fix it ✔️ Proven techniques to reduce fear and frustration ✔️ How to create a safe, calming bath routine ✔️ Ways to preserve dignity and independence ✔️ Simple changes that make a BIG difference Let’s make bath time smoother and stress-free, together!

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Benefits of Cannabis Use in Dementia Care

Join us for an insightful discussion on how cannabis can support individuals living with dementia. This training is hosted by Joanna LaFleur, Founder of Joanna Dementia Expert, and Katherine Golden, RN from Leaf 411. You'll learn: ✔️ How cannabis may help with agitation, sleep, and quality of life ✔️ Safe and effective use for dementia care ✔️ Common misconceptions and research-backed insights ✔️ Guidance straight from a cannabis nurse expert

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Bringing Joy Everyday: A year of Dementia Friendly Activities Volume 1 (PDF AND PRINT VERSIONS)

Caregiving does not come with a roadmap but Bringing Joy Every Day Volume 1 (January through June) helps you make each day brighter. Covering January through June this book gives you three dementia friendly activities for every day so you always have options that fit your person’s needs mood and energy. Created by dementia expert Joanna LaFleur the activities are simple meaningful and designed to spark connection while easing caregiver stress. Each day’s suggestions can be reused year after year making this a timeless resource. Perfect for caregivers and activity directors in memory care communities this book is like an activity bible for dementia care. Whether you are celebrating holidays exploring sensory experiences or turning ordinary moments into connection you will always have practical ideas at your fingertips. This purchase includes the PDF and a printed copy shipped to you. After checkout you will receive an email to confirm your mailing address.

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Bringing Joy Everyday: A Year of Dementia Friendly Activities Volume 1 (PDF ONLY)

Caregiving does not come with a roadmap, but Bringing Joy Every Day Volume 1 gives you tools to make each day brighter. Covering January through June, this book offers three dementia friendly activities for every day, so you always have options that fit your person’s needs, mood, and energy. Created by dementia expert Joanna LaFleur, the ideas are simple, meaningful, and designed to spark connection while easing stress. Each day’s suggestions can be reused year after year, making this a timeless resource. Designed for caregivers and activity directors in memory care communities, this book is like an activity bible for dementia care. Whether you are celebrating holidays, exploring sensory moments, or making ordinary routines more engaging, this guide turns daily care into opportunities for joy and connection. With gentle encouragement, modifications for every stage, and hundreds of fresh ideas, it is a trusted companion for creating memories that matter.

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Bringing Joy Everyday: A Year of Dementia Friendly Activities Volume 2 (PDF AND PRINT VERSIONS)

✨ Bringing Joy Every Day, Volume 2 gives you six full months of dementia friendly activities to make caregiving easier, calmer, and more joyful. This guide covers July through December, with 3 activities for every single day which means more than 500 fresh ideas to keep your person engaged and connected. Each activity comes with step by step instructions, supply lists, conversation starters, stage by stage modifications, and all the printable pages you need. When you order, you’ll receive two formats 📥 An instant PDF download so you can start today 📚 A spiral bound book mailed directly to your door After purchase, you’ll get an email requesting your address so we can ship your book. At $149, you’re investing in more than a book. You’re getting a complete caregiving system created by a dementia care expert with 20 plus years of experience. Bring joy, connection, and peace into every day with Volume 2 July through December.

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Bringing Joy Everyday: A year of Dementia Friendly Activities Volume 2 (PDF ONLY)

Caring for someone with dementia can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to do it alone. Bringing Joy Every Day, Volume 2 is your activity bible for dementia care, created for caregivers and activity directors in memory care communities. Inside, you’ll find: Three dementia-friendly activities every day from July through December Simple modifications for every stage of dementia Conversation starters and encouragement to make caregiving easier Reusable activities year after year for lasting value Created by dementia expert Joanna LaFleur, this book transforms ordinary days into opportunities for connection. ✨ Invest in a resource that makes caregiving lighter, more joyful, and more meaningful.

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Challenges with Eating and Drinking in Dementia

Mealtimes can become one of the most stressful parts of caring for a person with dementia. Refusing food or drinks, coughing during meals, weight loss, dehydration, and fear of choking can leave caregivers feeling overwhelmed and unsure what to do. In this training, Joanna LaFleur, Dementia Expert, is joined by Brittany Eyestone, a Speech Therapist with 10 years of experience, to explain why eating and drinking get harder in dementia and what actually helps. You'll learn: ✔️ Practical strategies to support hydration and nutrition ✔️ How to recognize early warning signs ✔️ Ways to reduce fear and resistance at mealtimes ✔️ When adaptive plates, cups, and utensils may help Walk away with real strategies to make mealtimes calmer and safer for both of you.

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Creative Techniques for Personal Care for Your Person with Dementia

Struggling with the daily challenges of bathing, dressing, and toileting a loved one with dementia? You're not alone, these are the most common concerns caregivers bring to Joanna LaFleur, Founder of Joanna Dementia Expert. In this hands-on webinar, you'll learn: ✔️ How to reduce resistance and anxiety during bathing ✔️ How to simplify dressing while preserving dignity and independence ✔️ How to approach toileting challenges with patience and effective strategies ✔️ Real-world tools to make daily routines calmer and safer for both of you Whether you're a family caregiver or a care professional, you'll walk away feeling more confident and prepared for these daily routines.

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Dementia 101 - A Caregiver's Perspective

Enhancing Lives with expert teachings on dementia care in this amazing course.

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Dementia Awareness Cards

These wallet sized cards help explain dementia in a gentle, respectful way. Hand one to a cashier, server, healthcare worker, or community member when extra understanding is needed. Purchase Options: Option 1: $14.99 Download and print at home Option 2: $24.99 25 Printed cards mailed to you (shipping included) Option 3: $29.99 50 Printed cards mailed to you (shipping included)

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Effective Therapeutic Activities and Participation Strategies for Your Person with Dementia

Keeping your person with dementia engaged doesn’t have to be complicated, it just needs to be meaningful. 💜 In this 1-hour training, you’ll learn: 🧠 The why behind therapeutic activity 👐 How to adapt activities for ANY stage of dementia 🎯 Real-life strategies to encourage participation 💬 What to say (and not say) when inviting them to join ✨ Plus: how to create moments of purpose, not pressure Whether they’re active or nonverbal, this course will help you turn everyday moments into joyful, connection-rich opportunities.

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Grief & Dementia: Finding Hope in Option B

Grief in dementia care isn't just about loss. It's about loving through it. In this heart-centered webinar, dementia expert Joanna LaFleur guides you through the concept of Option B: learning to live with a new reality when the life you imagined is no longer possible. You'll leave feeling validated, empowered, and reminded that you're not alone. 💜

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Grief & Dementia: Finding Strength in Option B

When Option A is no longer available, how do you find strength to embrace Option B? If you're caring for someone with dementia, you know that grief doesn't wait until the end. You're grieving while your person is still here—mourning the conversations you can no longer have, the future you planned together, and the person they used to be. This isn't the grief anyone talks about. But it's real. It's valid. And you don't have to navigate it alone.

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Holiday Survival Guide for Dementia Caregivers

A 6 page digital guide packed with practical holiday tips, travel strategies, communication support, and caregiver centered advice to make your season calmer and easier.

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How to Have the Best Visit with Your Person with Dementia in a Memory Care Community

👋 What You’ll Learn in This Empowering 1-Hour Training: ✔️ The best time of day to visit for calm and connection ✔️ What to bring (and what to leave behind) to support engagement ✔️ How to respond to confusion or distress with ease and compassion ✔️ Gentle goodbye strategies to avoid triggering anxiety or agitation ✔️ How to set realistic expectations, for them and for yourself 🧠 Why This Training Matters: Visiting your person with dementia in a memory care community can be emotional, filled with hope, love, and sometimes heartbreak. But with the right tools, your visits can be: ✨ More peaceful ✨ More joyful ✨ More meaningful 💬 You deserve to leave your visits feeling uplifted, not unsure. This course will help you turn your next visit into a moment of connection and confidence. 💛

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Is It Time? The Caregiver's Workbook for Choosing the Right Dementia Care

You know something has to change, but you're not sure what that looks like yet. This 26-page workbook walks you through every care option so you can make a confident, informed decision. We cover home care, hospice, adult day programs, assisted living (AL), memory care (MC), and long-term care (LTC), with real questions to ask and what to look for at each level. Choosing more support for your person is not failing them. It's loving them well.

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Managing Dementia Behavioral Expressions

Behavioral expressions like wandering, aggression, and refusing care are not random, they are communication. Once you understand the why, everything changes. In this training with Joanna LaFleur, Dementia Expert, you will learn: ✔️ Why behavioral expressions happen and what your loved one is really experiencing ✔️ How to respond with compassion instead of conflict ✔️ Proven redirection and de-escalation techniques ✔️ What to do when someone wanders, refuses care, repeats questions, or experiences hallucinations ✔️ How to feel more confident and less overwhelmed every day Perfect for family caregivers, home care staff, and memory care professionals.

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Navigating Alzheimer's - Understanding the Stages and Providing Compassionate Care

Alzheimer’s changes everything, but you don’t have to feel lost. In this 1-hour training, dementia expert Joanna LaFleur breaks down the early, middle, and late stages of Alzheimer’s in a way that’s clear, compassionate, and practical. You’ll learn: 📌 What to expect at each stage 💬 How to respond to changes with calm & confidence 💖 Strategies to support dignity, connection & comfort 🫶 Tips to care for yourself through the journey Whether your person was just diagnosed or you're deep in the caregiving season, this course will help you feel more prepared, grounded, and empowered. 🙌

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Navigating the Dementia Maze

Caring for someone with dementia is one of the most loving and challenging things a person can do. When you understand what is happening in their brain, everything changes, and not all dementia is Alzheimer's. In this warm, practical training with Joanna, Dementia Expert, you'll explore seven types of dementia, including Alzheimer's, Lewy body, vascular dementia, FTD, Parkinson's disease dementia, Huntington's disease, and alcohol-related dementia. You'll learn: ✔️ The hallmark symptoms of each type ✔️ How communication changes at each stage ✔️ Care approaches tailored to each diagnosis ✔️ Practical strategies you can use right away Whether you're brand new to dementia or have been caregiving for years, this training was made for you.

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Sundowning Uncovered: Why It Happens and What Actually Helps

Evenings are often the most challenging part of dementia care. As the day winds down, confusion increases, energy drops, and your person with dementia may experience fear, anxiety, restlessness, or emotional distress. Sundowning Uncovered explains what's happening in the brain late in the day, and what actually helps. You'll learn: ✔️ Why evenings feel so different from mornings ✔️ The most common triggers that quietly make sundowning worse ✔️ Small changes to routine, environment, and communication that create calmer nights ✔️ What to do in the moment when distress rises, without escalating the situation ✔️ How to support yourself when evenings feel overwhelming Compassionate, realistic, and grounded in real dementia care experience, this training will leave you with clarity and confidence.

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Surviving Sundowning: Simple Strategies to Ease the Evenings

Those late afternoon hours don't have to feel impossible anymore. If you're dreading sundowning, the pacing, confusion, and restlessness that starts around 3 PM, this guide offers real hope. Discover the "Spoon Theory" that explains why your person runs out of energy, prevention strategies that actually work, gentle scripts for tough moments, and a routine planner you can customize for your family. Plus practical self-care tips for when you're exhausted too. Peaceful evenings are possible.

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The Art of Dementia Communication

How to Adapt Your Communication for Different Types of Dementia. Join this live webinar with Joanna Dementia Expert on August 31 at 7 PM Eastern Time, with the recording available the next day. Learn practical, realistic techniques to understand the why behind dementia behaviors, reduce stress for you and your loved one, and build meaningful, trusting connections through compassionate communication.

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The Art of Redirection

Caring for someone with dementia can feel confusing and overwhelming, especially in moments when nothing seems to work. You may find yourself trying to explain, correct, or reason, only to have the situation escalate instead of improve. This is not because you are doing something wrong. It is because dementia changes how the brain processes information and emotion. This training offers a different approach. In The Art of Redirection, you will learn how to respond in a way that reduces tension, builds trust, and creates calm. You will learn: • What is happening in the brain • How to redirect without conflict • How to prevent escalation This is a practical, compassionate training to help you feel more confident and prepared.

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