All-Star Episode: Activities every care partner needs to know
Release Date: 11/07/2022
Mini Podcast: Types of Care
Dementia By Day
For family caregivers of people living with dementia, the offerings of the senior living landscape can be super confusing. In this mini episode of the Dementia By Day Podcast, Rachael Wonderlin introduces some of the most common types of care offered in senior living, and explains how these designations can vary widely not only from country to country, but even state to state domestically in the US.
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Mini Podcast: Misinformation on Social Media
Dementia By Day
Back when Rachael first started posting content about caring for people with dementia, there were very few people inhabiting this same niche on the internet. Now, there are more and more cropping up every day. In this mini podcast episode, Rachael talks about the importance of double-checking the information you come across on the internet when it comes to caring for your loved one with dementia.
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Mini Podcast: "Therapeutic Lying"
Dementia By Day
Nomenclature is so important. Listen to why I hate the phrases "therapeutic lying," "fiblets," and "white lies." Embracing Their Reality™️ is about doing what's true for the person living with dementia, NOT lying.
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Mini Podcast: Validation Theory
Dementia By Day
In this mini episode, Dementia By Day CEO Rachael Wonderlin talks about Naomi Feil's Validation Theory for communicating with people living with dementia. Validation Theory contrasts directly with Embracing Their Reality™️ because it teaches to "never lie" to someone living with dementia, and often suggests avoiding certain lines of questioning instead. For example, if someone with dementia asks "Where's my mom?" Validation teaches to answer the person with dementia like this: "It sounds like you miss your mom." This doesn't solve the emotional problem the person...
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Mini Podcast: What is Timeline Confusion™️?
Dementia By Day
Listen to this mini podcast episode to learn the fundamentals of Timeline Confusion™️. A common misconception about people living with dementia is that they "don't recognize" their loved ones. In reality, people living with dementia aren't living on a linear timeline. This means that if they believe they themselves are 40, they may not understand why their adult child is older than them (as an example), and have trouble placing loved ones on their timeline.
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Mini Podcast: Dementia isn't all that preventable
Dementia By Day
Welcome to our Mini Podcast season! These are unedited, super short episodes we created for our Patreon audience last year. Now they're available for you to enjoy! When we spot people posting things like this, they're really taking facts out of context...and typically new to the industry or running out of good content to post! Here's why this doesn't make sense: - Dementia is made up of over 100 different diseases - Many diseases (read: nearly every single disease) has some genetic component - Bad luck is real: you can live a perfectly healthy lifestyle and make all the "right" choices and...
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Behind the Scenes: Embracing Their Reality Short Film ep3
Dementia By Day
Episode 3 of our Behind the Scenes on Embracing Their Reality, our short film! If you haven't watched it yet, go to or even our YouTube link In the interview: Rachael Wonderlin, Natalie De Paz, Jessica Wasserlauf, Emily Naples
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Behind the Scenes: Embracing Their Reality Short Film ep2
Dementia By Day
Episode 2 of our Behind the Scenes on Embracing Their Reality, our short film! If you haven't watched it yet, go to or even our YouTube link In the interview: Rachael Wonderlin, Natalie De Paz, Jessica Wasserlauf, Emily Naples
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Behind The Scenes: Embracing Their Reality Short Film Ep1
Dementia By Day
Episode 1 of our Behind the Scenes on Embracing Their Reality, our short film! If you haven't watched it yet, go to or even our YouTube link In the interview: Rachael Wonderlin, Natalie De Paz, Jessica Wasserlauf, Emily Naples
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Mini Podcast Ep1: It's NOT lying!
Dementia By Day
This is the first and only episode of my Mini Podcast series that we'll be uploading to public channels! Want more? Visit our Patreon and sign up for only $5 a month to hear more of these episodes, dropping weekly on our channel!
info_outlineHello and welcome to Season 5, the All-Star Season, where I share my favorite episodes from the past...with a fresh take!
Stay for the entirety of this episode to catch my take on the activities every care partner needs to know, in 2022.
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Original Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Adel19p1zobAviPhYe9kp?si=a1f237f731854158