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
  • Food and drink value and meaning can have an impact on how we eat and what we eat.
  • Assessment tools to personalize behavior interventions
• Impact Dementia The Brain Function Changes
  • Screen for sensory, visual, and auditory information-Motor, olfactory, gustatory sensory intake
  • Different stages of dementia can cause changes in the processing system
  • 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
  • This framework provides a common language to help you modify your expectations and create new 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-Direction and task initiating
  • 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
  • Social, physical and sensory environmental factors that promote or hinder optimal function
  • Situations and environmental settings to address possible 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
• The End of Life: Food and Drink’s 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 regarding life-sustaining measures
    • Personal choice
    • Offer versus push
    • Food and drink: Value and meaning
    • Eating by the mouth rather than artificial nourishment 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:

You can watch the world’s most renowned author and dementia expert, 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.

This research draws on more than 30 years of clinical experience with dementia and research. 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—

• Assisting in the preparation of food and drinks during the early stages
• Supported intake and item selection in the mid-level-The stages
• offering moisture and tastes for sensory satisfaction only at life’s end.