Dementia Caregiver Support for Christians Podcast

If you are caring for a spouse, parent, or family member living with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, you may already know a great deal—and still find yourself trying to determine what a particular caregiving situation now requires.

Dementia Caregiver Support for Christians works through the real situations dementia caregivers face: driving, medications, supervision, staying home alone, changes in function, difficult care, family responsibility, care transitions, and the questions that emerge as dependency changes.

Each episode helps you look more closely at what is actually happening, what has changed, what still works, what may no longer work in the same way, and what requires attention now.

The podcast is explicitly Christian. These caregiving situations are considered through a biblical worldview, with the aim of helping you honor the person entrusted to you and steward your actual responsibility faithfully.

And as you listen, you will also hear the kind of reasoning behind Caregiving System Advising applied to real dementia caregiving situations—not simply more information, but careful interpretation of what that information means here.

Latest Episode

Episode 362. How Christian Caregivers Stay Connected When Dementia Makes Conversation One-Sided

When dementia makes conversation one-sided, staying connected with someone you love can become more difficult.

In this episode of Dementia Caregiver Support for Christians, Lizette Cloete explores a real caregiving situation involving a sister who can no longer communicate as she once did.

Through Caregiving System Advising, discover how changing expectations, recognizing nonverbal communication, and understanding what everyday caregiving situations actually require can help Christian caregivers maintain connection and determine what needs attention next.
October 13, 2026

Explore the podcast by the kind of situation you’re trying to figure out

The episodes below are organized around the kinds of caregiving situations the caregiver everyone depends on keeps having to work through. Start with the situation that feels closest to yours. You may recognize one, several, or something very similar.

When something that used to work reliably no longer does

Episode 351. How Christian Caregivers Know When Shower Refusal Means the Bathing Routine No Longer Works Reliably

Your husband says he already showered. You know he did not. You remind him that it has been several days. He becomes defensive. You explain why he needs to be clean. He tells you to leave him alone.
August 4, 2026

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Episode 350. How Christian Caregivers Recognize When Mom Still Attends Appointments But You Now Manage Them

Mom still goes to the appointments. You are increasingly the reason the appointments still work.

Episode 340. How Christian Caregivers Handle Dementia Mealtime Problems — When Your Loved One Refuses Food and Drink

You keep supplying more of what is needed, while the arrangement itself is becoming less reliable.

When you have information, recommendations, requirements and resources—but still have to determine what they mean here

Episode 348. How Christian Caregivers Can Know So Much About Dementia and Still Feel Stuck

Your mother is still living at home, and the care arrangement may look mostly unchanged. But now the milk is spoiled, the medication box is not right, the mail is left unopened, and the stove has been left on. You are calling more often, checking behind her, and quietly making sure everything still gets done.
July 14, 2026

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Episode 349. How Christian Caregivers Sort Through Too Much Dementia Care Advice

There is no shortage of advice. The unresolved question is what actually applies to the caregiving situation you are living.

Episode 325. How Christian Caregivers Handle It When Their Loved One Tells the Doctor Things That Aren’t True

The doctor has information from the appointment. You also know what is happening outside that room. Both have to be understood correctly.

When responsibility, influence and authority do not line up

Episode 341. How Christian Caregivers Keep Searching for the Legal Paperwork — While No One Can Make the Decisions

There comes a moment when the family is no longer talking about preferences. Something has happened: a fall, a hospitalization, another financial concern, or simply the painful realization that the current arrangement cannot keep going. Then the question rises in the room: who actually has the authority to decide?
May 26, 2026

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Episode 331. How Christian Spousal Caregivers Lose Authority After “Keeping the Kids in the Loop”

Other family members may become increasingly involved without responsibility, influence and authority remaining in the same places.

Episode 304. Can a Christian Caregiver Move a Parent With Dementia Who Refuses?

You may believe a move is necessary and still have to determine whether you have the authority to make it happen.

When several reasonable needs and responsibilities no longer fit together the way they did

Episode 345. How Christian Caregivers Know What Needs To Change When Caregiving Starts Taking Over Their Life

The shift may not happen all at once. It may begin with activities you no longer have time for, relationships that are harder to maintain, projects left unfinished, or church involvement that has quietly tapered off.
June 23, 2026

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Episode 326. How Christian Caregivers Evaluate Ministry After Dementia Redefines What’s Possible

The shift may not happen all at once. It may begin with activities you no longer have time for, relationships that are harder to maintain, projects left unfinished, or church involvement that has quietly tapered off.

Episode 330. How Christian Caregivers Get Stuck After Moving In to Help a Parent With Dementia

The shift may not happen all at once. It may begin with activities you no longer have time for, relationships that are harder to maintain, projects left unfinished, or church involvement that has quietly tapered off.

When the person needing care has not changed much—but the person their care depends on has

Episode 332. How Christian Caregivers Face a Hard Shift When Their Own Diagnosis Changes Dementia Care

Your loved one’s dementia care may not have changed dramatically. Your own diagnosis changes what the arrangement can continue to depend on.
March 24, 2026

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Episode 346. How Christian Caregivers Prepare Ahead When All the Care Depends on Them

If the present arrangement depends heavily on what you provide, preparation matters before your own availability or capacity changes.

Episode 335. How Christian Caregivers Feel Guilty About Needing a Break — And Delay What Needs to Change

Needing time away may expose something the current arrangement has been depending on you to keep supplying.

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