Dementia
Betsy Wurzel’s guest today is Lizette Cloete, “Think Different” Dementia, Dementia Consultant, and Cognitive Wellness Coach. Some information for Lizette Cloete: Lizette Cloete graduated from the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 1992 as an Occupational Therapist. She is the owner of “Think Different” Dementia, a company she established to teach people to think differently about dementia. She strives to help families decrease the effects of dementia. As a diplomat daughter, she has lived in […]
Betsy Wurzel’s guest on the show today is Candace Williams on her Mother’s diagnosis of Frontotemporal Dementia. “Candace is a caregiver for her mother who was diagnosed with FTD (Frontotemporal Dementia) at the age of 57. She started the blog because she wanted to share her and her mother’s experience about what life with FTD is like, the challenges, the joys, the pain…not to mention, early on in her journey with her mother, she realized […]
Betsy Wurzel, Host of Chatting with Betsy and the guest today is Chris Nichols-Glasgow. Chris was a caregiver for her husband Tom Glasgow and this is Chris’s story. “A little bit about me. I’m 58 years old. I have been a caregiver to my two husbands. I was married at 23 to my first husband Mark for 17 years when he passed after a two year battle with renal liver failure, esophageal bleeds x3, […]
When we are young, we feel as though we cannot survive without a best friend. We can tell them our secrets and we hear theirs and feel like the sun rises and sets on them. Few of us, though, have the experience of going throughout our entire lives with that friend. This week we are talking to Chris who met her best friend Cathy in third grade. They lived in the same town, married […]
Sheila Wilson host of Whine and Cheese will have Betsy Wurzel and Elizabeth Dalton on the show today. They will be discussing issues with being a caregiver and how they manger stress and isolation. They talk about therapy and how each one has used different types of treatment for stress and anxiety. I could write more about this interview but I think this interview speaks for itself. Grab that cup of coffee and sit and […]