Dementia Care Partner Talk Show with Teepa Snow
This is the Dementia Care Partner Talk Show, a podcast to help you navigate the senior care maze. Learn and laugh with us as we discuss creative solutions and ideas to common and uncommon dementia care challenges, and how to make sense of the senior care industry and options even if you're not a professional. Are you caring for a person living with dementia? We would love to hear from you! Send us a note at info@teepasnow.com and tell us what you'd like for us to discuss! You can also visit our website at www.teepasnow.com.
Episodes
Teepa and Greg tackle the uncomfortable but necessary topic of incontinence, explaining why common ‘solutions’ like reducing fluid intake and frequent bathroom trips can actually make the problem worse. Teepa shares practical insights on timing fluid intake, preventing and treating urinary tract infections, and the different types of incontinence commonly experienced in dementia.
Dementia care educator Teepa Snow explains why attempting to restrict movement for fall prevention often backfires and results in more injuries. She reveals some of the primary causes of falls and shares some practical ways to maintain mobility for as long as possible.
For a deeper look into in-the-moment skills, check out Teepa’s newest book Dementia Care Partner Guide.
In this week’s powerful episode, Teepa Snow and Greg dive into a conversation that every care partner, professional, and curious listener should hear: How can you tell the difference between typical aging and something more serious?
Teepa breaks down what typical aging looks like, about a 1% change in ability per year, and how to recognize when something might need medical attention. You’ll also hear why understanding a person’s uni...
Dementia expert Teepa Snow has traveled around the world teaching her Positive Approach to Care, but what she discovered might surprise you - not one nation has truly figured out a comprehensive, person-centered dementia care plan. In this eye-opening episode, Teepa and Greg discuss why even the most promising programs fail to spread beyond small pilot projects, and share the uncomfortable truth about what's really happening in car...
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Feeling overwhelmed by conflicting dementia advice online? This week Teepa and Greg help cut through the noise to reveal what's actually helpful versus what's just clever marketing.
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This week, Teepa and Greg explore the tragic incidents that can occur when first responders encounter a person living with dementia without proper training, and how simple communication techniques can prevent dangerous escalations.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasnow.com.
Is early onset dementia becoming more common, or are we just getting better at spotting it? Could our modern lifestyle of isolation, poor air quality, and sedentary living be quietly damaging our brains? This week, Teepa and Greg explore this complex puzzle and tackles the heartbreaking question of how we care for those our current system has failed.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasnow.com.
During an eye-opening conversation, Teepa reveals why so many care facilities fail people with dementia - and it's not because residents are difficult, but because staff aren't trained to understand what people with dementia are really trying to communicate. She shares a powerful example of how one simple conversation completely transformed a problem resident's care in just one day.
What if a rare disease could take someone from living independently to needing full-time care in just 3-5 years, yet most people have never heard of it? In this eye-opening episode, dementia expert Teepa Snow explains PSP (Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy) - the "freezing disease" that causes dangerous backward falls, makes people get stuck mid-movement, and is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson's.
Some of us have sat through brutal 4-hour training sessions that you struggle to remembers by lunch - but Teepa figured out how to change that. In our newest video release, Accepting the Challenge, she breaks down her person-centered approach using real people in real situations, plus she discusses why breaking everything down into tiny pieces might be the secret to getting dementia care right.
There's a tremendous decline that we're currently standing on the edge of: the amount of direct care professionals in the senior care industry. Contrast that with the number of people one studies suggests will be diagnosed with dementia in the US (13,000), and we begin to see the problem. How did this happen and what can we potentially do now? Stay tuned to find out.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasno...
Is there a way for us to intervene or investigate a situation that we believe might be elder abuse? Tackling this extremely sensitive topic, Teepa explores how outcomes can dramatically change with some skill development and awareness on our end.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasnow.com.
Opening what could be a can of worms, Teepa and Greg talk about how depression may or may not be what we think it is in someone that is living with dementia. Together, we can learn to respond and not react to difficult dementia care situations.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasnow.com.
Chances are high that if you're listening this podcast, you or someone you care for has a dementia diagnosis, and you're looking to learn more about what to expect. This week, Teepa and Greg caution against some potential pitfalls when searching for resources, while also giving us a few ideas of places we can check out.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasnow.com.
When we hear someone using profanity, it's normal to think that they're being willing aggressive. But here's the thing when dementia is in the picture: as someone progresses, their primitive part of the brain takes control. This means that while we can choose when not to say something nice, with dementia, that ability is affected. Stay tuned to learn more about what shifts we can make to have more positive outcomes.
When a person is living with dementia, they are likely to do things that someone without dementia wouldn't, like put items into their purse instead of into a shopping cart. This could then lead to them being accused of shoplifting where the authorities are asked to step in. And if no one stops to think if it could be dementia that caused that situation, then things could go sideways real fast. Tune in this week to learn a potential...
In other words, contrary to what some TV medical dramas may portray in a 30-minute episode, diagnoses for a form of dementia is not a one-size fits all solution. While it's true that our ancestry may play a part in us potentially developing a form of dementia, there are other factors that we may not have considered. Stay tuned this week as Teepa and Greg discuss how we can start thinking about dementia gradually rather than all at ...
If given the choice, would you prefer someone to approach you while you're facing away from them or while they're in your field of vision? Most of us would say the latter is the preferred way. Why? Because then you're prepared to interact with the other person instead of them catching you by surprise. This doesn't change when someone begins to develop a form of dementia. That's why building own skill and awareness is so important, ...
Referencing an article that focused a minimum amount of minutes to be spent with residents, Teepa and Greg discuss how focusing on the wrong aspect of care contributes to the devaluation of time. For example, focusing on nurturing and maintaining relationships is more beneficial for a person-centered culture of care.
To learn more about Positive Approach to Care, visit: www.teepasnow.com.
Why would you want to experience what living with dementia is like? One word: perspective. Having a better understanding of what brain change translates to in the real world can help give us patience, comprehension, and compassion. Tune in this week as Teepa and Greg discuss what these changes might look and sound like.
To learn more about Accepting the Challenge, our Champion Course series, and other products, visit: Positive Appro...
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