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Information and how to purchase Diana's book and DVDs.​

Help For Families?

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Learn more about dementia.

Family Seminars?

View the list of family-focused seminars available in the Northwest Ohio area.​

Diana's Techniques?

Wondering how these techniques can help? A demonstration is worth a thousand words.​

Family Consultation?

Interested in a Certified Dementia Practitioner to work with you and your family?​

Testimonials?

Read what actual clients have to say. Their testimonials say it all.​

Helpful Tools for You

I Was Thinking...Diana's Book

Is a workbook that helps people better communicate with their loved ones suffering from cognitive loss. It is a guide that can lead to happy, calm conversations. The information discussed in this book may be new and different from what you have heard before. This book truly has the potential of reconnecting you with a loved one you may have felt was lost to you because of cognitive loss. $15.00 each

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I'm Still in Here - Come Find Me!

My Todays are a Blur but My Yesterdays are My Strength (Diana's newest DVD designed for families). This DVD, of Diana presenting to families, is based on the valuable info contained in her book. Presented in a warm, caring manner with just the right amount of humor, this DVD provides the reasons behind the need to plan conversation starters that lead to a calm, contented experience for both you and your loved one. $40.00 each

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Family Bonus Buy

Purchase Both the Book and the Family DVD and Save! $45.00 each

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Interested in purchasing multiple products? Contact us for a discount.

For orders outside of the USA please call 419 351-7654 or email me at dwaugh@accesstoledo.com.

Help For Families

Have questions as you work to provide care to an aging loved one who suffers from dementia? Struggling with communicating with your loved one with memory loss?

You are not alone. Dementia is truly the elephant in the room. Even though we have all heard that the number of people who suffer from memory loss is growing rapidly, it is a totally different story when that person is a friend or a loved one.

We can all tell stories about broken relationships, the sad case of the “friendly stranger” who takes advantage of the person with dementia and/or the frustration felt when “they just don’t remember”.

Your stories can be different and your relationships can be rewarding even in the face of memory loss. Diana can provide you with information about memory loss coupled with communication techniques that maintain dignity and self-worth for all involved. She stands ready to help.

Looking for help as you work with a loved one OR friend who is suffering from dementia? Talking with them can be challenging as you attempt to remind them of short term memory topics or issues. Diana’s tools have the potential of reconnecting you with the person you may have felt was lost to you because of their memory loss.

Realizing that dementia simply means memory loss, usually of recent events, will empower you to talk successfully with them. Diana’s approach, provided in her book and reinforced through her DVD, provides you with real-time examples of successful conversation techniques that work!

How about an in-home family meeting? What about your church group, your service organization or your community based group?

Family-Focused Seminars

Available in the Northwest Ohio area

Looking for a seminar for you, your family/friends, your church, your social organization or your community based group? Check the list of family focused seminars below and give me a call!

I’m Still In Here…Come Find Me!
Looking for Lost Loved Ones?
Longing for Home
Out-Of-Towners See it Differently
Dementia Vs. Depression
Keeping Calm & Diffusing Anxiety for All

Making You the Expert
Humor – What’s There to Laugh About?
Where Does the Anger Come From?
Let’s Go For An Outing!
Understanding All Those Numbers
Making the I Was Thinking Book Work For You!

Other programs can be developed at your request.

Examples of Diana’s Techniques in Action

Wondering how these techniques can help? A demonstration is worth a thousand words. It is often helpful to actually see Diana’s techniques in action. Changing your conversation can change your outcome. Take a minute to watch and see if you find some help.

HYGIENE STRUGGLES IN THE FACE OF MEMORY LOSS

Click on this short video which shows an alternative to address the issue of bathing. Watch how simply changing your approach can change the outcome.

DEFUSING STRESS OVER PAST LOSSES

Click on this short video which addresses the challenging conversation that occurs when your loved one brings up a person who is deceased. The difference between attempting to get them to “remember” that their loved one is gone and encouraging them to talk about the memories of that person often can defuse the situation.

Please note – YouTube videos are only available in English at this time.

Family Consultation

  • Interested in a Certified Dementia Practitioner to work with you and your family?
  • Want to discuss an assessment of your loved one’s remaining brain power?
  • Want to set up a "Family Focus Seminar" just for you, your family/friends, Church Groups, Social Organization or your Community Based Group?
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Testimonials

Just to say thanks very much. I must say your advice has been just great!!!!!! Totally pragmatic, kind and very helpful and now i have passed that along to other folks dealing with these oh so very difficult care taking issues. Many, Many thanks.
PatriciaCALIFORNIA
I want to let you know what a positive impact you've made on our family. I recently purchased your book for my father-in-law. Please take a moment to see his comments regarding his experience with your book and trying to "reach" his wife who suffers from dementia. Your willingness to share your wisdom has helped more than words can express. Excerpt from the forwarded email: The best part of my days with mom, is reading and also injecting my own stories around those written by Diana Waugh’s, I Was Thinking. Your contribution of supplying this Booklet with a note from Diana has always brought back Carol’s fond family memories over the past number of months. Our daily theatrical adventure of fun and laughter is her best cognitive therapy. - Joe from Arizona
BethKANSAS
I want to thank you with all of my heart, for my sharing your magnificent video, and book on Dementia. So wonderful that you took the time, to share with the world, what you learned through taking care of your mom. So much valuable information, suggestions, solutions in layman terms. Diana I watched your video and ordered your book. Within one week our lives have changed. The sun has come out. I have put into practice what you recommend. I thank God that I came across your video. It is not easy, but I am doing it. We have peace back in our lives everyday. I remember your approach of living in their reality, not ours, it works. Once again I want to thank you. May God continue to bless your special work.
BeverlyCALIFORNIA
If you’ve been frightened and struggled, as I have, with an aging parent who was always the brightest star on the horizon and had to watch him fade, then this is the book you’ve been waiting for. I know. I used Diana’s techniques during many long distance calls and visits that I had with my Dad as he began to slip in his 90’s. The answers to how to reach out and make that connection are here.
Dee ResnickLOVING FAMILY MEMBER
Understanding...practical...insightful information that can be used immediately. Would have been helpful in my own family. It will make a difference for many. Carry on!
Jon W. SchwanzD.C.
Diana provides pure, practical advice born out of her own experience and shared with love. I WAS THINKING... gives people hope and tools to re-build these precious relationships.
Ed CarlsonRETIRED PASTOR
I can ’t express how much of a blessing your book, “I Was Thinking ” has been. We brought my Dad “home ” from Florida in May and while he is probably suffering more from his journey to life’s end than the dementia they first diagnosed him with, your book prepared me for the conversations – and lack of conversations I would have the past 5 months. I don ’t know how much longer the Lord is going to allow Dad to spend with us, but knowing more about this journey has been invaluable. Keep up the great work and thank you for bringing your message to WLMB.
MarkBELLEVUE, OHIO
Your book was so helpful - in talking with the compromised aged. I read it and gave to my husband, and his sister who was living with their aging out mom (to be 96 this Aug, with early stages dementia). Bottom line, your book was able to BEGIN the process of understanding their mother as a person with serious unmet needs. But the point is, Diana, YOUR book stimulated the whole process, its gave us a "professional" view that allowed true assessment of Mary Elizabeth's needs, which I could see as a psych nurse, but her daughter and my husband (a Harvard psychiatrist) could not "see". That helpful wall of denial which helps us cope sometimes, also needs a "door" to open to those realities needing to be recognized - and your book was that door! It allowed all the family to be able to "talk about" realities without feeling we were diminishing her; that her creeping dementia was a problem which was/is discussable and did not mean a person loses their true personhood. Thanks for authoring this wonderful book!
C. Johnson, RNNORTH CAROLINA
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