When your loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and related dementias, it’s traumatic and life-altering for everyone. Over time you realize what an all-consuming and exacting challenge 24/7 caring can be.
Whether you’re facing a new diagnosis or struggling with ongoing caregiving challenges and don’t know where to turn, we offer you our caregiver family coaching options.
How coaching helps you and your family
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Understand how to live with the disease.
- Gain knowledge and clarity about the disease, its characteristics and behaviors so you can properly respond and manage them.
- Dispel the myths surrounding the disease so you can separate fact from fiction.
- Learn and practice proven techniques and tactics, so you can interact effectively with your loved one.
- Understand their safe zones, vision, speech and comprehension abilities so you can adapt with the changes throughout the journey.
- Learn important guidelines so you can make your home a safe, soothing environment.
2
Develop practical, viable solutions.
- Discover and evaluate your options so you can manage your time and money wisely.
- Rely on an impartial sounding board and share expert counsel so you can effectively navigate each situation.
- Find ways to enhance the quality of life for both you and your loved one so you can enjoy times together.
- Develop a written personalized plan for both short- and long-term needs — your roadmap for managing what comes your way.
- Learn important guidelines so you can make your home a safe, soothing environment.
3
Adapt to your family dynamics.
- Facilitate a family meeting to produce a cohesive unit so you know everyone is working in unison.
- Develop and implement ways each family member can contribute individually so you can maintain a balanced daily life.
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LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
for Kae Hammond from
Ivor J. Nazareth, MD MRCP.
I have known Kae Hammond for over ten years, she is a very dedicated person and is involved with patients who have Alzheimer’s/dementia.
She applies the same the dedication and passion in providing services to patients who are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s/dementia, services that a beyond the ability and scope of treating physicians.
These services include, but are not restricted to, assisting patients and their families to face the reality of Alzheimer’s/dementia. The many issues that families have to deal with include psychological issues, legal and financial issues etc. Most families are in shock when they are given the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s/dementia and they need emotional as well as social support including how to navigate the various problems (mainly social ones) as their loved ones deteriorate over time. She is also very successful in helping family’s deal with placement services appropriate to the situation.
She also acts as a go between so that patients are referred to Adult Protective Services or other health services when appropriate. These are invaluable services that a practicing physician does not have time to address. She is very passionate about helping patients with Alzheimer’s/dementia and I have found her to be an invaluable resource to turn to.
I wish her well in the future.
Ivor J. Nazareth MD MRCP, Consulting Neurologist, May 20, 2022
DEMENTIA HELP CENTER
EXCLUSIVE PACKAGE OFFERS
When you get a diagnosis of dementia for a loved one in your family, you need information, support and compassion. Dementia Help Center offers all three in abundance. Upon contacting us, you will receive a short form asking for some basic information to help us get to know you. With the return of that document, we offer a complementary 20-minute conversation to establish the best package for your dementia care needs, so we can be by your side on your unique dementia journey. You don’t have to feel alone.
Palo Verde
- 30 minutes
One-on-one time by phone, email or in person.
Copy of “Pathways” – an Amazon caregiver handbook written by Kae Hammond.
Written details of diagnosis, behaviors, characteristics and anticipated life span according to historic reference
100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
If you aren’t satisfied for any reason.
Ironwood
- 60 minutes
One-on-one time by phone, email or in person.
Copy of “Pathways” – an Amazon caregiver handbook written by Kae Hammond.
- Written details of diagnosis, behaviors, characteristics and anticipated life span according to historic reference
potential life span based on research - Care Notebook for Loved One (all components included – notebook, plastic sleeves and forms)
- Comprehensive list of legal, financial and medical documents that should be created and gathered
100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
If you aren’t satisfied for any reason.
Purple Plum
- 100 minutes
One-on-one time by phone, email or in person.
Copy of “Pathways” – an Amazon caregiver handbook written by Kae Hammond.
- Written details of diagnosis, behaviors, characteristics and anticipated life span according to historic reference
potential life span based on research - Care Notebook for Loved One (all components included – notebook, plastic sleeves and forms)
- Comprehensive list of legal, financial and medical documents that should be created and gathered
100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
If you aren’t satisfied for any reason.
Custom plans quoted upon request.
These clients say coaching helps handle the stress
“Your focus and empathy – combined with your knowledge base – aided us immensely with handling Dad’s dementia and Alzheimer’s condition. Through our private sessions, we learned strategies on how to handle stressful issues which, when put into practice, are amazingly effective! We are grateful for your expertise, and that we found you.”
“Every meeting with you renews me, and I leave feeling strong again. I also leave with new information and tools to apply in my caregiving of George. Each session opens my eyes to a new chapter of this never-ending mystery of a disease with new behaviors and triggers to understand. You are so patient with me, and your ready availability when I need it is deeply appreciated. I’ll get through this. I know I will because of your guidance and support.”
“During my husband’s suffering with dementia, Kae Hammond and Mary Lou Green of the Dementia Help Center were a god-send. They are both VERY caring individuals who, thanks to their acquired knowledge through firsthand experiences with the disease, make up a first-rate support system for caregivers with practical advice and emotional support. I have seen Kae and Mary Lou go way above and beyond the call of duty when the caring of my husband sometimes became overwhelming, and I know that they will do likewise for anyone requesting their services. I can’t thank both of them enough for what they have done for me, and I very highly recommend them.”
“Thank you Kae Hammond and Mary Lou Green for coming into my life. When my husband was beginning to show signs of dementia, I was luckily referred to Kae. She was kind, listened intently and had a wealth of information. The advice of updating all our legal matters (e.g. Living Trust, Wills, Health Care Directives, etc) was invaluable. She told me about the challenges of caregiving, what to expect from my husband (nothing) and how to respond. A while later I joined Kae’s support group for caregivers. This is where I met Mary Lou who was a co-leader of the support group. Mary Lou is one of the kindest, caring, giving individuals I have ever met. She constantly researches tools/information to help us. She reaches out to those who are unable to join the support groups (as small as waving hi through their window during coronavirus to help sell their car). Mary Lou Green and Kae Hammond are like angels on this earth. They continually update their information on Assisted Living and Memory Care Facilities. If in the future I need to place my husband in a facility, I will totally rely on them for their help.”
“As a new member of the Dementia Help Center’s THRIVE support group. I felt immediately comfortable talking about my circumstances. Quietly and confidently, Mary Lou listens with great interest. With her deep intuitive nature, she calmly suggests tools to help you cope. It could be a resource for help thru agencies she has thoroughly researched or even a phrase you can use to cope with a situation with our loved one. I truly feel that I have a very strong and caring safety net around me.”