Teepa L. Snow – Dementia

Based on more than 30 year’s clinical experience and research in dementia research, Teepa This book will provide practical and effective strategies and techniques that maximize safety, engagement, and functional performance.

Teepa L. Snow – Dementia

• Dementia’s Effect on Appetite, Nutrition, Hydration, Meal Preparation and Eating
  • Our relationship to food, drink, meal preparation, and eating from multiple angles:
    • Cultural
    • Spiritual
    • Social
    • Emotional
    • Individual
    • Physical
    • Sensory
    • Physiological
  • The value and meaning of food or drink can influence how people eat and drink.
  • Assessment tools for personalizing behavioral interventions
• Impact Dementia The Brain Function Changes
  • Screen for auditory, visual and sensory-Motor, olfactory, and gustatory sensory intake
  • The stages of dementia affect the way you process information.
  • Cognitive skill changes that affect independence, interests and engagement
    • Time awareness
    • Situational awareness
    • Problem solving
    • Sequencing
    • Memory
    • Language processing
    • Impulse control
• Ability-based and Cognitive Disability Evaluation Tool – GEMS® Model
  • It provides a common language and a framework for modifying expectations and environments
    • Diamond in the Early Stage
    • Moderate Stage (Emerald)
    • Moderately Severe Stage, Amber
    • Severe Stage (Rubies)
    • Extreme Stage (Pearls).
• How to develop skills that optimize success in nutrition and hydration
  • Structured initiating promotes active participation and limits refusals
  • Verbal statements that promote self-choice and choice-Initiation of the task and direction
  • Cueing sequences with graded options for each GEMS® state
  • Focus attention, automatic reactions, and reflexes support
  • Reduce distractions and passive eating behaviors
• Strategies to Increase Nourishment & Hydration from the Early to the Late Stage
  • Guide meal selection, settings and routines in combination with each GEMS® state
  • Refusals, adverse reactions, excess or under-eating or drinking should be limited
  • Optimize performance with cues, routines communication, interaction and communication skills
  • In order to foster or hinder optimal functioning, there are many social, physical and sensory environmental factors.
  • Environment settings/situations that address potential areas of concern
  • You can create personalized care programs that provide you with the best support
  • Members of a Support Team: The roles of each person/discipline
• It’s ending: Food and Drink are the Role
  • Typically, signs of the end of life include changes in physical, psychological, and physiological parameters.
  • The development of interaction skills to support:
    • Personal beliefs about life-sustaining measures
    • Personal choice
    • Offer versus push
    • Food and drink: Value and meaning
    • Eating by the lips versus artificial nutrition and hydration
  • Techniques that distinguish between the inability or ability to consume the nutrition and the inability to digest the food or drink offered.
  • Strategies and techniques where nourishment is not the goal

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Description:

The world’s foremost dementia expert and author is on-screen. Teepa L. Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, for this engaging workshop as you explore the depth and breadth of change that various forms of dementia have on the person’s interest in and ability to consume food and drink—for enjoyment and survival. This interactive program will teach you how to create and implement programs that help your client maximize their remaining capabilities and abilities while acknowledging and respecting the limitations this neurodegenerative condition eventually places on them.

Based on over 30 years clinical experience and research in dementia care, Teepa You will learn practical and effective strategies to increase functional performance, safety, and engagement. You will leave with the ability to screen and assess, modify programming, and perform other tasks.-based cueing and assistance from first symptoms to end of the life considerations, and will be able to make a positive and valuable difference in the lives of people living with dementia whether—

• Guide in early stages of food and beverage preparation
• Encouragement of item selection and supported intake during mid-The stages
• offering moisture and tastes for sensory satisfaction only at life’s end.