How Dementia Affects Language Skills

31 thoughts on “How Dementia Affects Language Skills”

1. I soooo wish I’d had this type of knowledge and education when my beautiful Momma was diagnosed.

2. Fabulous presentation!

3. Thank God I found these tapes!!!

4. I really like how she shows and explains .

5. Wow! So very informative and helpful. I see all of this and will be a much better caregiver as the result of this half hour session. Thank you.

6. I don't know how many times I said "Spend a day in my house".

7. Teepa, I love this clip! I have shared it with so many and I have just ordered the DVD for my home library. I'm in Texas and many of the caregivers/helpers I have had in my home speak Spanish – would love to see some clips in Spanish.

8. thank you – I really enjoyed your presentation and it made perfect sense

9. Excellent presentation. Thank you. I wonder if it's also the reason we "withdraw" – because saying, doing the wrong things is distressing? Ian from the UK. Potential dementia person.

10. Ok, I don't have dementia, but I don't have a neurotypical brain, and when Teepa started talking fast I even had a problem tracking that. Thanks for explaining so clearly.

11. I have YOD FTDbv plus EARLY ONSET Alzheimer's.
    The parts of the world video I understood we're just what I need my Wife n Family to understand… without their understanding, life looks very bleak… I'm not sure that I welcome that Future..it's too much really to put my family through..
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12. OMG, this is amazing…thank you for what you do…and the man in the yellow will be an awesome caregiver, when Teepa was beside him acting out a panic person, he reached up and comforted her..

13. How can I connect with teenagers?by email?

14. My husband was diagnosed with early onset dementia at 56…now he is almost 71 and a full time job for me. A number of years ago he said to me is "how am I supposed to remember what I forgot". It wasn't a question, but a statement.
    Thank you for these informative videos. I have bookmarked several of them

15. She's the best, and natural educator.

16. Excellent info! This helps explain my Dads behavior.

17. This channel has great info I was just diagnosed with early onset dementia a couple months ago I'm 25 about to be 26

18. Wow, you are so good at your job!

19. Very informative and great presentation. You’re GREAT. Thank you so much !

20. I’ve worked as a Nurses Aide for many years at Nursing Homes. Then dealt with my Mother and Father with dementia. I thought I knew all about it. I’ve been watching your all of your videos and for the first time, I’m finally starting to understand, I think everyone should watch you. Thank u dear woman for teaching me. You are very funny too. What an eye opener.

21. Brilliant. Thanks

22. Her dementia impersonations, while hilarious to both people who've seen it and those who haven't, are actually SPOT ON! It must be her years and years of experience but nearly every patient I see that has advanced dementia lays their tongue across the bottom of their mouth and talks in that funny way. The "ah hehehehe" as she was walking is spot on as well. They tend to do things that make very little or no sense like that. They'll either do that all day or they'll only do it when they walk or when they are approaching another person or a hallucination that they think is another person.

    Many advanced dementia patients do end up with this weird sort of staccato way of speaking where the language or what's left of it is broken up into many starts and stops like nanananana didididididaaaah wuhwuhwuhwaaaahhhhh kukukukuku reeeeer reeeeeeer reeeeeeer! Like a car idling. Then at the end there they do the reeeeeeer rev sound of a car.

    Often they have a lot of fun while doing so, actually. There's an odd stage I've noticed with many VERY social and happy before the disease folk where they love to look in the mirror or watch tv and they're just strapped in for some ride known only to them and they're revving and reeeering and behaving as if the more they pump their arms and move their body, the more fun they will have. Lots of grimacing in this stage.

    Some of them even babble to themselves in semi-English like "Ohhhh I want a bottle of beer. Bott la bott la, bott la BEEEEEEER! YEEEEAH! Peeling peeling a beer. I want a peeler to be peelable. None of this chit chat SHIT! Grabber did to goons and Glen said he'd be back boy but I dunno! What's yer father's name, boy? Ah I know you! Peelable? Beer? Reeeeeer rajajajaja hooo come and gig have come and GITCHA! Whoa whoa whoaaaa. Whoa Nelly. Whoa baby, whoa honey,whoa horse. I had a horse when I was a little girl in a red dress (patient is male) and boy was I a CUTIE! Peelable! Lololololoe! Blitherable? No LOCKABLE! Thaaaaats it. I got this place PEGGED YOU FUCKS! FUCKERRRRRR! You mother FUCK! Ha! Blah blah blay blay who do I pay? Always lookin for money and stealing my socks but oh boy I found the door now boy, so I'm packin…and I'm LEAVIN! WHERE IS THE FAHKIN FRUNT DAR? I seen it! I seen it at breakfast! When's lunch? A movie? Ohhh well I'd better go see Billy. Ha HA! I've got you now, big fella. Too many bugs in heeererererere annnnnnnn izzie boopie jingling and hanky! Churlish Burlish Girlish." etc.

    Endlessly fascinating and annoying as hell all at once. Like studying mosquitos by being bitten.

    Thanks for this invaluable video!

23. This video is very helpful, thank you. Both my mom (86) and dad (89) have dementia. Mom has lost her memory and her ability to carry on a conversation. She has lost her desire for her favourite activities and spends her time just sitting. She is angry and resentful toward us caregivers. Dad is delusional, sees things that aren't there and believes he is living in his earlier life. He also has bouts of anger. Doctors are medicating him, which seems to help. However, he sleeps a lot. We wanted them both to stay at home, but now that's impossible. They're both scheduled to enter a long term care nursing home, a sad ending for the greatest mom and dad in the world.

24. Thank you for shedding light on this sad illness.

25. Boy, do I wish I'd seen this video before the visit we had with the "Elder/Dementia EXPERT estate lawyer" we saw earlier this week! He was 100% wrong, and made all of his assumptions (that no one asked him for) concerning my husband's ability to take care of himself based on all the "right side" stuff! So, the nodding, smiling, agreeing…"Oh, he's FINE to stay home by himself!"

    I wanted to yell: "Yeah, where did YOU go to medical school, Mr. Lawyer?! Your father-in-law having dementia doesn't make YOU an expert on other people's dementia. Now, ask him what year it is! Ask him where he is right now! Come live in my house for a day, and you'll see that you know NOTHING, Mr. Attorney!"

26. Wow. I wish I had watched this 8 months ago when I started working at a nursing home! This is great knowledge!

27. Brilliant and so valuable. Thank you.

28. I can not express how greafull I am for finding your video’s….I am over the top..with amazement how you articulate with your body language.. your skits you show us exactly what’s going on in a dementia mind…..I see and hear your training…and understanding more and more each time I visually watch you ..I would love to have your insight and intelligence to work with my patients ..I’m a CNA and it breaks my heart to see people deteriorate day in and day out.. you are a blessing thank you so much

29. This woman is Hilarious and absolutely Brilliant!!!

30. Wow, this was amazing!❤️

31. I really needed this. Thank you!

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