James L. West Center for Dementia Care
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Managing Behavioral Expressions in Dementia
There are more than 35 common expressions related to the various types of dementia that can add to the complexity of care for this disease. This program discusses the causes of the most prevalent of these behavioral expressions and ways to effectively prevent, distract, and intervene.
The James L. West Center is a faith-inspired, not-for-profit organization started through First Presbyterian Church by the Eunice P. and James L. West Charitable Trust. While founded through First Presbyterian Church, the Center serves all persons affected by dementia, no matter their faith background. As a trusted expert, we provide personalized, innovative care and support for families and specialized education for caregivers, healthcare professionals and the community at large.
For more information or a copy of the presentation slides please contact us at caregiver@jameslwest.org or call 817-877-1199
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Communicating with Children, Adolescents & Families about Dementia
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Research has shown that education can positively impact knowledge and attitudes regarding dementia, especially among children and adolescents. Join us and get kid-friendly information for children and adolescents about dementia and the disease progression, as well as offer resources and advice for parents navigating the impacts of the disease on the family dynamic. For more information contact ...
Optimal Brain Aging: Reducing Your Risk for Dementia
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If we age with better developed, healthier brains we are likely to live happier and more independent lives with a much-reduced chance of developing dementia. Join us as we explore proven things you can do to reduce your risk for dementia and age with a healthy brain. James L. West is a faith inspired, not-for-profit organization serving persons impacted by dementia. As a trusted expert, we prov...
James L. West Takes on the Harmonica Challenge
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The residents had fun last week in the Pecos House! During Music Therapy the residents took on the Harmonica Challenge to celebrate World Music Therapy Week. Utilizing the harmonica during music therapy helps exercise their oral, swallow and respiratory muscles. Everyone was really engaged and excited to try something new and show off their skills. #morethanmemorycare #findingjoyindementia #jam...
Grief in Caregiving
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Grief in Caregiving
Age Inclusive Practices
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Age Inclusive Practices
What is a Senior Day Program?
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Adult Day Programs 101
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Adult Day Programs 101
Family Dynamics in Caregiving: Coping with Conflict and Engaging Family Members in Care
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Senior Spotlight Saturday Featuring Senior Day Program Participant Betty Hove
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Our Senior Day Program is a Valuable Resource
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Our Senior Day Program is a Valuable Resource
I Made a Promise: How to Cope with the Guilt & Heartache when Hard Choice Need to be Made.
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Looking for a fulfilling career?
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Hope in Caregiving: Blending Knowledge and Faith
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Hope in Caregiving: Blending Knowledge and Faith
James L. West Senior Day Program Family Caregiver Testimonial
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James L. West Senior Day Program Family Caregiver Testimonial
Cheryl Harding, James L. West CEO, Experience in Senior Living
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Cheryl Harding, James L. West CEO, Experience in Senior Living
James L. West Senior Day Program
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James L. West Senior Day Program
Cheryl Harding on James L. West Caregivers
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Cheryl Harding on James L. West Caregivers
James L. West Short Term Rehabilitation Program
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James L. West Short Term Rehabilitation Program
James L. West Senior Day Program Virtual Tour
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Holidays & Dementia: Making the Holidays More Enjoyable
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Holidays & Dementia: Making the Holidays More Enjoyable
Lewy Body Dementia
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TALABook: Love Remembers
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Understanding Frontotemporal Dementia
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Understanding Frontotemporal Dementia
Yvonne | LVN | James L. West Center for Dementia Care
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Yvonne | LVN | James L. West Center for Dementia Care
Valynda | Life Enrichment Director | James L. West Center for Dementia
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Valynda | Life Enrichment Director | James L. West Center for Dementia
Rita | Life Enrichment | James L. West Center for Dementia
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Rita | Life Enrichment | James L. West Center for Dementia
Leslie | Cook | James L. West Center for Dementia
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Leslie | Cook | James L. West Center for Dementia
Jeffrey | Assistant Director of Nutritional Services | James L. West Center for Dementia
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Jeffrey | Assistant Director of Nutritional Services | James L. West Center for Dementia
Gary | Activities Assistant | James L. West Center for Dementia Care
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Gary | Activities Assistant | James L. West Center for Dementia Care

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  • @ananda_miaoyin
    @ananda_miaoyin วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is really good information. I am in backgrounds right now for a volunteer position as a spiritual counsellor. It is for an NPO hospice in Northern Cali.

  • @wordzmyth
    @wordzmyth 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is good work.

  • @EmmaAloha-iq9uw
    @EmmaAloha-iq9uw 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My journey of this horrible disease with my mother has just begun. Luckily, I had POA, Advance Directives and a will done prior to her diagnosis. You should also have one done for yourself (caregiver) and appoint someone in the case that your loved one lives beyond the caregiver. Find someone to talk to. Your doctor, therapist, pastor, support group, friend. Sometimes, Im standing in line and God will send an angel to start a conversation. 30 minutes later Ive just unloaded everything. Take time for yourself even if it's a min of just breathing. 🙏🏽

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This is excellent advice. Thank you for sharing!

  • @marylynniekerk3092
    @marylynniekerk3092 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Water fountain

  • @marylynniekerk3092
    @marylynniekerk3092 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love this reminiscing session

  • @marylynniekerk3092
    @marylynniekerk3092 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You are such a blessing 😌 thank you for this much needed information

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are so welcome

  • @lanapoulliot7682
    @lanapoulliot7682 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Your videos are excellent and so helpful. Thank you!!!

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad you like them!

  • @jessiestaggs3094
    @jessiestaggs3094 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Could you please talk about them driving

  • @nataliaspinelli9747
    @nataliaspinelli9747 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Saccharine is safe ❤

  • @lisaanderson2488
    @lisaanderson2488 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    WHY aren’t we TAUGHT THIS ASAP this video should be step one for ANYONE WHO EVEN HAS A HINT THEIR LOVED ONE HAS DEMENTIA ALL THE LIST TIME THE not knowing what the patient is going through! Thank you for this video 🙏 THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

  • @user-ci5si8jz5h
    @user-ci5si8jz5h 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Doing A Replay love your videos

  • @user-ci5si8jz5h
    @user-ci5si8jz5h 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video and tips

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @Mr104752
    @Mr104752 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for vascular info. I have it and appreciate info. Love the teacher.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @traceyfrati2579
    @traceyfrati2579 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I am an RN who works in a rehab/long term facility with dementia residents and my family member has Alzheimer's dementia. These are by far, the most educational videos on dementia. I have seen a few. So good, better than the educational training we get at work.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you so much for your support.

  • @nataliaspinelli9747
    @nataliaspinelli9747 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    She is such a good teacher! Have her make more videos please

  • @user-jd3gz4uf1c
    @user-jd3gz4uf1c 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    THE BEST EVER VIDEO ON DEMENTIA I' VE EVER HEARD!!!!! PRAGMATIC AND TO THE POINT - THE WHOLE LING STAGE!!!!!

  • @amywolitzer8047
    @amywolitzer8047 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This was so helpful to me right now. Thank you so much! . Amazing talk. Good graphics and information. I wish I had seen this months ago.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @user-ci5si8jz5h
    @user-ci5si8jz5h 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great information and tips

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @user-ci5si8jz5h
    @user-ci5si8jz5h 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great information Thanks for Sharing

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My pleasure

  • @user-ci5si8jz5h
    @user-ci5si8jz5h 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Doing A Replay

  • @user-ci5si8jz5h
    @user-ci5si8jz5h 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great information

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad you think so!

  • @eScential
    @eScential 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It is great to realize the person is 'having' a hard time but i wish the same grace was allowed minors, especially autistics. A question based on my recovery in final longest medically allowed survival with early onset 'atypical alzheimers': You don't address biotoxin (often treatable) dementia. Is it ignored/prohibited? I have had a great functional decade starting in days of leaving the mycotoxin filled environment and 80% of residences are demonstrated to have mold. I get mocked or silenced for mentioning even to those in documented long-term mycotoxin exposure. It seems like medical gaslighting and deliberate denial along with other proven caused dementias. Medical professionals tried to teach me that method in university, but it never made sense to me. I was also taught the person with dementia is not aware nor able to suffer from brain function loss, which could be justfied by the denial of a dementia dx until very late stage (say last 3-4 years depending on flavor) however, i was extremely aware and distressed (NOT chemically depressed) for about 7 years prior to that final period. I think that is a comfortable self-deception by surrounding real people. Both me and mom knew and suffered a couple decades before that final go.die decade from the gaslights, but not dad. He was intervened and 'heard' for his 2 symptomatic, but lucid decades. Is that a sex-bias or gender bias that is a mutable factor?

  • @DC-ef8op
    @DC-ef8op 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent video❤

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Glad you liked it!

  • @DC-ef8op
    @DC-ef8op 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why do we still want to take them out to eat and stuff?

  • @lmadventure5023
    @lmadventure5023 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My guess is JOE BIDEN HAS PARKINSON'S DISEASE DEMENTIA... Jill, Hunter, and the entire Biden administration are guilty of ELDER ABUSE❗❗❗

  • @ColleenAnn-zi6sx
    @ColleenAnn-zi6sx 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for sharing such an informative outlook on this disease. I do have a question about love being a feeling and not a memory. My sister has been sick for more than 8 years now and almost from the beginning her has expressed feelings of anger towards me. She was angry with me as she was entering this disease before we as a family knew what was happening. When I walk in to visit with her she is obviously not happy to see me. Everyone sees it. I wish I knew where this came from. If you have an answer I would love to hear it. It is heart breaking for me.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hi @ColleenAnn-zi6sx - Thanks for asking and I’m so sorry this is happening to you and your family. Love is a feeling, emotion, and a memory. Your sister may be mistaking you for someone from her past right now. Do you look like someone that she might have had hard feelings with? Or did the two of you ever disagree? Whatever the reason, it is temporary. I know that is hard to believe when you are in the middle of it, but it will pass. Keep loving her. Make sure you have BIG hellos and little goodbyes. Always show up with a treat and don’t test her memory. Leave if you need to and try very hard not to take it personally. It is the disease and she is having a hard time.

  • @sheredith79
    @sheredith79 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @ambershockley8961
    @ambershockley8961 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I hope that when she is old someone like her will be there. I hope she gets grace and love and compassion in her golden years. She is so beautiful inside and out. This is wonderful to see but makes me sad. ❤

  • @sofiadiaz4265
    @sofiadiaz4265 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for explaining Párkinson dementia like this, teh doctor don’t explain it at all

  • @summerduggan3838
    @summerduggan3838 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Gotta pray when I can no longer take care of myself...I am blessed with a woman like this.

  • @picaza2
    @picaza2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you so much for this video. Very informative and helpful.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are so welcome!

  • @JM-ny2io
    @JM-ny2io 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is one of the best explanatory video on dementia. Thank you for posting.

  • @renus6015
    @renus6015 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    😭😭😭😭😭my mother is in last stages of dementia!

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thinking of you.

    • @renus6015
      @renus6015 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jameslwest1 She passed on on 21st may..... Her dementia was aggressive...

  • @justmouse..
    @justmouse.. หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for explaining this so clearly and compassionately.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're very welcome!

  • @margosmart5935
    @margosmart5935 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Exceptionally informative slide show with intense videos. Thank you for this overview. Mom is 82 with late stage dementia and I am caring for her in my home after taking her out of a Memory Care facility plagued with Covid. We have a gentle routine and hoping she will find peace in her final days.

  • @pattitibble
    @pattitibble หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where are you located?

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi @pattitibble we are located at 1111 Summit Ave., Fort Worth, TX 76102

  • @pattitibble
    @pattitibble หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where are you located?

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We are located in Fort Worth, Texas.

  • @PENcilitis
    @PENcilitis หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for some great tips... I live in London UK, my sister has Altzimers, and I think is in mid stage, can you give me any advice on Vitamine supplements, I know the hospital gave her 6 x 20000 Vitamine D3 capsuals after a blood test but her husband ( carer did not give them to her) would it be possible to give her 1x large dose pill of 20000pu per week when I go to see her. Plus any other advice on nutrient supplements, as she is really not getting the care she needs or deserves. Thanks in advance. ❤

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi @PENcilitis The doctor and her medical care team are the best people to talk about supplements as each person and their situation is different.

  • @theluckyman74
    @theluckyman74 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Some studies found Dark chocolate and magtien a special magnesium help memory Also some one made a device you put on your head had great results

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Interesting!

  • @theluckyman74
    @theluckyman74 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can't believe in 2024 we still don't have a simple way of putting people to sleep for surgery or other reasons. We invented Ether many years ago . I would hope for a device that you put on your head and nocks you out safely. The numbers of times i had to be anesthesia is Mind boggling and and i am only 50. Being one of early Fontane people born essentially with a frog heart 3 operations did really well but eventually started getting heart failure and luckily received a heart transplant on Easter Sunday exactly 24 years ago. I did well except started getting crazy Atrial Flutter Attacks 3 times put to sleep for cardioversion and a another for Ablation which didn't really work. I can't believe propfol ketemine is all they got

  • @raynseyr
    @raynseyr หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just finished 11 months - burned all FMLA left lob - to care for my mom in home hospice terminal lung cancer - she passed in March: also my 83 year old dad. Now just my dad - he has level 6 dementia... SLUMS 16 .. and my disabled 47 year old Bipolar Schizophrenic younger brother... ...anyways it has been very hard learning curve... I am / was an MLS .. but nothing in my woork nor traning prepared me for this. Your channel and videos like this from others I have subcribed to have helped more than you know. Thank you thank you thank you.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So glad we've been able to offer you some support!

  • @mr.pupbostonterrior3318
    @mr.pupbostonterrior3318 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This lady is a wonderful! I’m sharing this with my children to educate them.

  • @FireMedic-gv9ns
    @FireMedic-gv9ns หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the best information I have found for my family about myself. Thank you so much.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are so welcome!

  • @marccamilleri2335
    @marccamilleri2335 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m going though this with my mum now and she started not eating as much and she’s now standing on her own which she couldn’t even stand up I think she at the last of her life

  • @lisaadams780
    @lisaadams780 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much! Tears of learning.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Glad it was helpful!

  • @ahc1957
    @ahc1957 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m trying to get my husband to the doctor. Sitting here crying through this video. I’m so frightened for my husband. How will I help him?

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hi @ach1957. We encourage you to get connected with resources in your area like the Area Agency on Aging and Alzheimer's' Association local chapter. Organizations like these have programs and resources to help family caregivers and keep getting educated on the disease. The Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline is 1-800-272-3900

  • @Mr104752
    @Mr104752 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How long of a.lifr span

  • @user-lc5wx3pc3q
    @user-lc5wx3pc3q หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ty I love my wife and our children and grandchildren and great children so very much so does my wife she is a saint I love her so much she is the hero of our family it breaks my heart I feel so helpless and scared we love each other and kids and grandkids my wife is the hero not me but I love. Her , ty you for helping us not be alone, God has blessed us with these beautiful people who have dementia and our turn ain't come yet so please love them God is blessed me to know and love people with this part of life ty😊

  • @IOSALive
    @IOSALive หลายเดือนก่อน

    James L. West Center for Dementia Care, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!

  • @williamvila9668
    @williamvila9668 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much for this.

    • @jameslwest1
      @jameslwest1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are so welcome!