All workshops are interactive and teach the following: 

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  • Approaches to care that promote positive outcomes
  • Awareness, knowledge and skills needed to create a dementia safe environment. 
  • Information about anatomical and chemical changes that occur in the brain of people living with dementia
  • Understanding of how “challenging behaviors” correlate to areas of the brain with decreased function                                                                                                         
Workshops utilize the POSITIVE APPROACH™ TO CARE (PAC)                             
  • Positive Approach™ was created to help us to focus on what remains and not what is loss.
  • Focusing on the retained skills and abilities allows us to fill the day with meaning. 
  • Implementing POSITIVE APPROACH™ skills enables us to provide support and cueing that foster engagement and participation rather than isolation and dysfunction.

“It’s all in the approach” Seeing it from the Other Side                   

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  • This workshop gives an overview of brain changes related to dementia and how they affect cognition, behavior and processing
  • It teaches skills that work
  • Participants see what dementia is like from the point of view of the person living with dementia. 
  • This helps us to understand why the new approaches to care so necessary and effective
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“Normal Aging vs Not Normal Aging” Understanding the difference 

  • Learn about changes in cognition and processing that are a normal part of aging vs dementia
  • Learn about the five ways humans take in data and the five sensory input and processing systems
  • Gain insight about the areas of the brain dementia effects and how that affects their ability to take in and process data
  • Discuss why old ways of providing care often resulted in problematic behaviors and why these behaviors are actually “expressive communication”
  • Learn about the Positive Physical Approach™ and Hand Under Hand™ and how they promote better outcomes 
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 Positive Physical Approach™(PPA) and Hand Under Hand™(HUH) Person Living With Dementia--PLWD

  • Learn about vision changes that occur with dementia
  • Learn how vision changes affect taking in and processing information
  • Learn skills and techniques needed to adapt our behaviors and interactions into approaches to care that a PLWD can receive and process without causing distress
  • Learn how to use a Positive Physical Approach™, Hand Under Hand™ and a Supportive Stance to connect with and provide assistance with a PLWD
  • Gain better understanding of doing WITH and not TO when assisting a PLWD

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TEEPA’S GEMS™: “Using Skills that Make a Difference”

  • Learn about number-based systems used to identify stages/progression of dementia
  • Learn about Teepa Snow’s Gem classification model for dementia. Learn about the six Gems used to identify states of cognitive function.
  • Learn to use the GEMS™ to facilitate positive supportive communication and interactions by focusing on retained abilities and desires.
  • Gain insight regarding what unmet needs are common at each GEM™ state and how to structure activities to meet these needs.
  • Learn to recognize and respond to unmet needs that lead to distress or challenging behaviors.

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First Reponders Training

  •  Learn about number-based systems used to identify stages/progression of dementia
  • Learn about Teepa Snow’s Gem classification model for dementia. Learn about the six Gems used to identify states of cognitive function.
  • Learn to use the GEMS™ to facilitate positive supportive communication and interactions by focusing on retained abilities and desires.
  • Gain insight regarding what unmet needs are common at each GEM™ state and how to structure activities to meet these needs.
  • Learn to recognize and respond to unmet needs that lead to distress or challenging behaviors.

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