Dementia care, made human and practical.
Alzheimer's Speaks brings dementia care into plain, human conversation. Hosted by Lori LeBay, it pairs practical caregiving ideas with stories about identity loss, family strain, legacy, behavior changes, and support systems.
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Alzheimer's Speaks is a dementia-care conversation show with a strong emphasis on lived experience. Lori LeBay hosts with a warm, steady style. The program returns often to a central idea: dementia care should move from crisis toward comfort. That gives the show a practical spine, even when the subject matter is emotional. Episodes cover caregiving strain, trauma, identity loss, family roles, and the search for support after a diagnosis changes daily life. The show also spends time with the mechanics of care. One conversation explains how dementia-related behaviors can make more sense when caregivers look at what the brain is struggling to process. Another stresses the difference between doing everything for someone and working alongside them so remaining skills are not lost. These are small distinctions. They matter. Alzheimer's Speaks also makes space for authors and storytellers who use books, memory projects, and intergenerational conversations to help families talk about dementia. Legacy is a recurring theme, especially when episodes focus on grandparents, children, and the emotional bridges between generations. The show is not only clinical or instructional. It is also rooted in personal accounts of marriage, young-onset illness, loneliness, faith, online support groups, and the hard work of rebuilding a sense of self. Resource sharing is part of its rhythm, with mentions of AlzheimerSpeaks.com, Dementia Map, open mic conversations, and care-oriented services. The pace can feel like a community radio room: conversational, earnest, sometimes promotional, and often deeply practical. Its best use is as a companion for people trying to understand dementia from the inside of caregiving. It gives professionals useful language, too. Family caregivers may come for ideas about agitation, sequencing, support groups, or hospital stays, then stay for the honest emotional context around those decisions. Alzheimer's Speaks stands out by treating expertise and lived experience as parts of the same care conversation.
Made for: For family caregivers, dementia-care professionals, advocates, and relatives trying to understand the emotional and practical realities of Alzheimer's and dementia. It also suits listeners interested in legacy work, storytelling, and caregiver resources.
What sets it apart: The show blends resource-sharing with intimate caregiving stories, keeping practical care tactics close to grief, identity, family, and community. Its recurring focus on all ages and stages gives it a broader lens than a narrowly clinical dementia program.
Alzheimer's Speaks Radio gives voice to all, sharing resources, tools, and products. Through collaboration & education we are changing dementia care.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at behavior, sequencing, and the cost of doing too much for someone.
Alzheimer Speaks centers a practical idea: behavior that can seem irrational often makes more sense once the brain is understood. Lori LeBay talks through sequencing trouble, the speed at which hospitals can create learned helplessness, and why doing things with a person matters…
A reflective conversation on dementia, family memory, and the quiet work of writing through loss.
The episode follows dementia, generational love and loss, and the way a children's book can give form to feelings that resist easy language. Lori LeBay keeps the conversation grounded and humane while the guest talks about how children often meet aging and illness with less…
A candid conversation about how dementia can alter marriage, identity, and the search for support.
Identity loss in dementia caregiving comes through as a shift in marriage, money, and the caregiver's own sense of self. Lori LeBay's conversation with Susie McNamara, author of The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree, is grounded in McNamara's experience caring for her…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Host Lori La Bey interviews Susie McNamara, author of 'The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree', about finding identity after caregiving for a spouse with early-onset Alzheimer's.
This episode of Alzheimer Speaks Radio features an open mic discussion on supporting families and organizations dealing with dementia, including a promotion for Zinnia, a therapeutic streaming service.
Host Lori LaBay interviews RJ, a 30-year-old residential counselor and first-time author, about his children's book 'For Those I Knew and Loved Before'.
Lori LeBay interviews Senior Helpers professionals Christina Chartrand, Tashawn Prendeville, and Garrett Medeiros about loneliness, dementia, senior mental health, and caregiving during extreme heat.
Alzheimer's Speaks host Lori LeBay interviews Joel, the founder of Crayon Cards, a book that turns personal photographs into coloring pages with captions for reminiscence, identity, and connection.
Alzheimer's Speaks host Lori LeBay interviews four-time dementia caregiver Tracy Cram Perkins about making homes easier to navigate for older adults and people with dementia.
Alzheimer's Speaks host Lori LeBay interviews Tracy Cram Perkins, who describes caring for four family members with dementia from diagnosis through death.
Miriam Fine, a dementia researcher with 30 years of experience, presents Resonance Silence Technique as a drug-free approach using sound, breathing, and silence.
Jordan Hamlin of Neuronic explains transcranial photobiomodulation, a light-based approach targeting brain tissue through infrared wavelengths.
Eric Garcia describes caring for his mother after early-onset Alzheimer’s began at 59, then transforming their story into The Blues Opera and a book.
This episode discusses how CENI and Dementia Live are collaborating to improve dementia care systems through education and advocacy.
This episode features an interview with author Susie McNamara about finding oneself again after experiencing identity loss, trauma, and the challenges of caregiving for someone with dementia.
This episode explores Reflekta's approach to creating lasting legacies through intergenerational storytelling for families affected by dementia.
On Alzheimer's Speaks Radio, host Lori La Bey interviews physical therapist Carlyn Lenfesti, who has spent 15 of her 25 years in the field specializing in dementia care after watching all four of her grandparents develop the disease.
This episode of Alzheimer Speaks Radio discusses dementia care, introduces Zinnia as a therapeutic streaming service, and highlights World Alzheimer's Month, aiming to shift care from crisis to comfort.