We are here for you!
At Dementia Help Center, you’ll learn how to optimize and lengthen your loved one’s independence and ability to enjoy life with dignity as you discover how to care for someone else just as important: You.
The road is long, with many a winding turn.
If you’re caring for someone diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or related dementias, you already know the journey is long and mind-boggling. A formidable challenge, it’s too much for mere mortals and nearly impossible to handle alone. The good news is that you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to Dementia Help Center, a world of resources, solutions, advocacy and a warm, encouraging support community.
Kae Hammond
Founder of DHC
Kae Hammond is a family coach for caregivers and care partners, an author, support group facilitator and talk show host. Above all, she is a vital advocate. Indeed, her extensive work and her company’s services include advocacy, planning strategy and care management for care partners, caregivers and their families.
Kae founded Dementia Help Center in 2009, after she experienced firsthand the inherent challenges of family caregiving. She was certified by the National Alzheimer’s Association as a family caregiver support group facilitator in 2010 and has served since 2011 as the Alzheimer’s Association’s Ambassador to congressional and state representatives on behalf of the industry.
In 2012, she published her widely acclaimed guidebook, Pathways — A Guidebook for Dementia & Alzheimer’s Family Caregivers. The book has garnered tremendous reviews from physicians and caregivers earning five stars on Amazon. Pathways has been recognized by caregivers and members of the medical and scientific communities as an outstanding resource. In 2014, Kae started her radio talk show, The Kae Hammond Show, on 95.9, The Oasis, featuring relevant guests and invaluable information. In addition, she is a certified consultant in the Teepa Snow Positive Approach to Care™, a highly effective program that provides a positive approach to brain change and living well with dementia. Learn more about her personal challenge with her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease in this international story in Epoch Times
Kae is an outstanding individual who helps families and those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. She enhances people’s quality of life, builds relationships, connects communities and makes a difference.
Get a plan. Get help.
Dementia Help Center gives you all the help you need with one trusted entity and its vetted network. From home safety requirements to critical communications skills, we work closely with you, having direct conversations about your specific circumstances. We cover every aspect to inform and empower your role as a care partner or caregiver. That encompasses the ability to navigate the blind spots and limitations you may face. Think of us as both a true compass and a trusted companion.
Our promise to you
Kae Hammond and the Dementia Help Center team promise an accessible, single point of contact for this universe of services: individual and family counseling, placement (knowing when it’s time to relocate your loved one to a care facility and how to streamline the process), tried-and-true care methods, links, guidelines and invaluable tips for both the diagnosed and the caregiver.
The Action Plan that sets your course.
Dementia Help Center’s proven coaching program offers you and your family a workable, valuable and strategic Action Plan. Giving you a step-by-step set of solutions to handle the myriad challenges of caring for — and worrying about — a diagnosed loved one. And, you also have access to Kae Hammond’s popular support group, a pro bono service to clients that connects you with a community of like-minded caregivers and care partners.
Elevating their quality of life. And yours.
Our experience-based approach offers you vetted resources presented with compassion and wisdom. Clients learn to improve the quality of their own lives as well as the lives of their loved ones with Alzheimer’s or other dementias.