What You’ll Uncover in Teepa L. Snow Dementia Individualized Care Techniques to Support Nourishment and Hydration
- School:
- Teepa L. Snow
- Length:
- 6 Hours 13 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 16, 2018
Description
Watch world famend dementia knowledgeable and writer, Teepa L. Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, for this partaking workshop as you discover the depth and breadth of change that numerous types of dementia have on the particular person’s curiosity in and capability to eat meals and drink—for enjoyment and survival. Throughout this extremely interactive program, you’ll be taught the abilities crucial to design and implement packages that serve your consumer to optimize remaining skills and capacities whereas respecting and acknowledging the restrictions that this neurodegenerative situation in the end has on the particular person.
Drawing on over 30 years of scientific expertise and analysis with dementia, Teepa will train you sensible and helpful methods and methods to maximize purposeful efficiency, engagement and security. You’ll stroll away with screening and evaluation maneuvers, environmental and programming modifications, capability-based mostly cueing and help from first signs to finish of the life concerns, and will likely be in a position to make a constructive and beneficial distinction within the lives of individuals residing with dementia whether or not—
- guiding in meals and drink preparation throughout early stage conditions
- fostering merchandise choice and supported consumption in mid-phases
- providing moisture and tastes for sensory satisfaction solely at life’s finish.
Handouts
| Handbook (3.35 MB) | 80 Pages | Obtainable after Buy | |
| Absolutely Up to date slides (0.91 MB) | 21 Pages | Obtainable after Buy |
Define
- Dementia’s Impact on Urge for food, Diet, Hydration, Meal Preparation and Consuming
- Our relationship with meals, drink, meal preparation and consuming from a number of points:
- Cultural
- Non secular
- Social
- Emotional
- Particular person
- Bodily
- Sensory
- Physiological
- Worth and that means of meals and drink that have an effect on behaviors associated to meals and consumption
- Evaluation instruments to personalize behavioral interventions
- Our relationship with meals, drink, meal preparation and consuming from a number of points:
- Affect of Dementia on Modifications in Mind Operate
- Display for visible, auditory, sensory-motor, olfactory and gustatory sensory consumption
- Processing modifications at numerous phases of dementia
- Cognitive ability alterations that have an effect on independence, curiosity and engagement:
- Time consciousness
- Situational consciousness
- Downside fixing
- Sequencing
- Reminiscence
- Language processing
- Impulse management
- Means-based mostly and Cognitive Incapacity Analysis Device – GEMS® Mannequin
- Gives widespread language and a framework to modify expectations and environments for:
- Early Stage (Diamond)
- Average Stage (Emerald)
- Reasonably Extreme Stage (Amber)
- Extreme Stage (Rubies)
- Excessive Stage (Pearls)
- Gives widespread language and a framework to modify expectations and environments for:
- Techniques to Develop Abilities that Optimize Profitable Nourishment and Hydration
- Structured initiating to promote energetic participation and restrict refusals
- Verbal statements to promote alternative, self-course and process initiation
- Cueing sequences with graded choices for every GEMS® state
- Support makes an attempt, focus consideration, automated reactions and reflexes
- Reduce distractions and passive feeding behaviors
- Methods to Improve Nourishment and Hydration in Early to Late Stage
- Information meal choice, settings and routines together with every GEMS® state
- Restrict refusals, unfavourable reactions, over or beneath consuming or ingesting
- Cues, routines, communication and interplay abilities to optimize efficiency
- Social, bodily, and sensory environmental options that foster or impair optimum perform
- Environmental settings/conditions to deal with possible areas of concern
- Create individualized care packages to present optimum assist for you
- Members of a assist workforce: The position of every particular person/self-discipline
- Life is Ending: The Function of Meals and Drink
- Bodily, behavioral, and physiological modifications that usually sign the ending of life
- Interplay abilities that assist the exploration of:
- Private beliefs about life sustaining measures
- Private alternative
- Supply versus push
- Worth and that means of meals and drink
- Consuming by mouth versus synthetic hydration and nourishment
- Providing methods that differentiate between lack of capability to make use of the nourishment and hydration vs. incapability to perceive the supply of meals or drink
- Techniques and methods when nourishment and hydration is not the purpose
School
Teepa L. Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA Associated seminars and merchandise: 1
Teepa L. Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is a number one knowledgeable on dementia with over 30 years of scientific expertise, medical analysis and trainings. Her firm Constructive Strategy® is an worldwide dementia care coaching, schooling and consulting group that gives= care methods and coaching fashions utilized by clinicians and households working or residing with dementia or different mind modifications all through the world. Teepa’s care methods and methods combine therapeutic approaches that foster constructive outcomes, modified environmental helps and expectations that match retained skills of individuals residing with dementia. She supplies direct care in group and wellness facilities, day programming websites, dwelling care settings, assisted residing and CCRC communities, long run care services, out-affected person clinics, hospitals and rehabilitation settings.
Teepa teaches concerning the worth of connection, significantly when major verbal communication and interplay skills are altered. Her educating type is awfully distinctive in that she is ready to precisely display and mannequin the wrestle and challenges dementia creates for all events concerned. She is an enlightening, witty, entertaining, and energetic speaker, who’s a lot wanted to current to businesses and organizations throughout the U.S and Canada.
Teepa has scientific appointments with Duke College’s College of Nursing and UNC-Chapel Hill’s College of Drugs. She works with the CMS INTERACT program and is an energetic member of the US Dementia Motion Alliance. Teepa has labored as an OT director in a head damage facility, a scientific specialist in geriatrics for a Veteran’s Administration Medical Middle, and a therapist and restorative care coordinator for long run care services. She has served because the director of schooling and lead coach for the Japanese N.C. Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Affiliation, as this system director of Durham Technical Group School’s OTA program, as an interdisciplinary workforce member and scientific affiliate professor at UNC-CH College of Drugs’s Program on Growing old, and as a coordinator and care supervisor for CAP Medicaid waiver companies in NC.
Teepa has served in all kinds of management and advisory positions in skilled organizations at each state and nationwide ranges, together with the Alzheimer’s Affiliation, Alzheimer’s Basis of America, AOTA, and NBCOT.
Speaker Disclosures:
Monetary: Teepa Snow is in non-public apply. She receives a talking honorarium from PESI, Inc.Â
Non-monetary: Teepa Snow is a member of the NC Coalition for Lengthy Time period Care Enhancement; American Occupational Remedy Affiliation; North Carolina Occupational Remedy Affiliation; North Carolina Assisted Dwelling Affiliation; and Buddies of Residents in Lengthy Time period Care. Â
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