Caregiver Videos

Video clips are from the professional training DVD "Accepting the Challenge," produced by the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, Raleigh, NC.

  • What is Dementia?
    This video provides an overview of dementia (time: 2 minutes).
  • Types of Dementia
    This video clip describes the different types of dementia (time: 1 minute 45 seconds).
  • Brain Changes
    This video clip depicts typical brain changes in dementia (time: 1 minute 15 seconds).
  • Effect on Speech
    This video clip depicts typical progression of the effects of dementia on ability to speak (time: 4 minutes).
  • Memory Problems
    This video clip depicts typical memory problems in dementia (time: 4 minutes 20 seconds).
  • Emotional Problems
    Watch a video that discusses emotional problems that may occur for people with dementia (time: 2 minutes).
  • Problems with Swearing
    This video clip explains why some people with dementia develop problems with swearing (time: 1 minute 40 seconds).
  • Basic Tips for Caregivers
    This video clip shows how to use tactile (touching) cues and the hand under hand technique to assist your loved one in the tasks of daily living. Verbal cues and visual cues are also important (time: 1 minute 30 seconds).
  • How to Use Touch
    This video clip describes how to touch a person with dementia without raising their anxiety or disrespecting their wishes (time: 1 minute).
  • How to Motivate a Person with Dementia and Get Cooperation
    This video clip shows how to get a person with dementia to do something, getting their cooperation (time: 3 minutes 10 seconds).
  • How to Speak to a Person with Dementia
    This video clip provides advice on speaking to a person with dementia (time: 1 minute 30 seconds).
  • How to Have a Conversation
    Watch a video that shows how to converse with a person with dementia (time: 2 minutes).
  • How To Approach a Person with Dementia
    This video clip shows how to approach a person with dementia so as to minimize anxiety and offer respect (time: 4 minutes 20 seconds).
  • Eating Tips
    This video clip describes how to help your loved one with eating (time: 3 minutes 45 seconds).
  • Grooming Tips
    Watch a video that shows a caregiver using verbal, visual, and tactile cues to help a person in a moderately late stage of dementia groom herself (time: 3 minutes 30 seconds).
  • Dressing Tips
    This video clip shows a caregiver using verbal, visual, and tactile cues to help a man in a middle stage of dementia get dressed (time: 3 minutes 30 seconds).
  • Dealing with Emotional Distress
    This video clip describes how to deal with emotional distress in a person with dementia (time: 3 minutes).  Note: The video refers briefly to using the "Positive Approach," which is explained in another video.
  • Care in Late Stages of Dementia
    This short video clip shows a caregiver grooming a person in a late stage of dementia (time: 2 minutes 45 seconds).