Aspen Senior Care is excited to share some great on-line dementia care help for family caregivers!
With all of the information about dementia care out there, it can be an overwhelming task to sort through and figure out just what information is best and how it applies to your situation.
At Aspen, we understand the difficulties family members face while caring for loved ones with dementia and our goal is to be a source of support, education, and information to which family members may turn as they cope with the daily challenges of caregiving.
Learning from the best and looking for the positive
Because there is so much material on dementia care out there, we have looked long and hard to find up-to-date, quality information that is both useful and practical for families to implement, and we believe we have found this resource in Teepa Snow, a dementia care education specialist with over 30 years of experience in this field.
She has developed The Positive Approach to Care training series to help professional and family caregivers better understand the physical changes that happen with dementia, and develop skills to understand and care for people with dementia
Our professional caregivers use Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care training series to better understand memory loss and how using this approach improves the quality of life for both the caregiver and the person receiving care.
The positive approach focuses on what individuals with dementia CAN do at each stage of the disease instead of focusing on the skills they have lost.
Online Caregiving Tips
With this in mind, we have put together a list of short video clips taken from Teepa Snow’s training DVDs. More can be found at Teepa’s YouTube channel and The Pines of Sarasota YouTube channel.
- Dementia skills – Meet Teepa Snow
- Dementia – Getting a proper diagnosis
- The Positive Approach to Dementia Care
- Vascular dementia
- Lewy Body dementia
- Frontotemporal dementiaConnecting with a person with FTD
- Helping a person with dementia brush their teeth
- Bathing a person with dementia
- Recognizing pain in a person with dementia
- Understanding how vision changes with dementia
- Dementia and driving
- I’m Sorry
- Celebrating the Holidays
- Helping distant family members understand dementia has become a problem
- Finding moments of joy through activities
These are just a few of the on-line dementia care help available for family caregivers. Aspen Senior Care has some of the full-length DVDs from which the above clips are taken. Family caregivers are welcome to come and watch the entire DVD if they would like. Just give us a call at 801-224-5910 to check on availability and schedule a time to come in.
Aspen Senior Care is here to help families meet the caregiving challenges they face. We want families to feel they aren’t alone, that there is hope and help available. Please visit our website at aspenseniorcare.com and call us at 801-224-5910 for more information. We’re here to help.