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Ask Teepa Anything: Your Biggest Dementia Care Questions, Answered
April 3 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm PDT
Free
Join us Thursday, April 3rd at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET for a special Live Talk with Positive Approach to Care founder and dementia care expert Teepa Snow. She returns for her bi-annual “Ask Teepa Anything” to answer Being Patient readers’ questions in real time. Previous advice from other Teepa Snow Q&As can be found here.
Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, is an Occupational Therapist with over forty years of clinical and academic experience. Her experiences led her to develop the GEMS® States of Brain Change and the Positive Approach® training strategies. Her company, Positive Approach to Care® (PAC), provides online and in-person education and products to support those living with brain change. She founded the Snow Approach Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
RSVP to this live talk to get your questions about dementia caregiving answered. Also, ask any questions you have in the comment section below so the Being Patient team can be sure to ask them live!
This is my question. How do you react and respond to people that offer unsolicited advice, such as just put coconut oil on all his food and it will reverse Alzheimer’s? I don’t want to be rude but…
Thanks for sending in this question! We appreciate it and will be sure to pass it along.
Looking for tips and tricks to explain to a patient they will not be going home from a care center when they clearly state they do not feel they need to be there or be cared for?
Thanks for sending this question in! We appreciate it and hope you can join us live!
I’m having difficulty finding purposeful activities for Loved one in amber/ruby state so am wondering How do you decide At what point do you leave them in bed or recliner?
Thanks for sending this question in, Iris! We’ll be sure to add this question to our list for the Live Talk.
I’ve watched you before and your awesome! You have a lot of knowledge Teepa.
Thanks for the love, Jamie! We do hope you can join us live for this Live Talk!
Question 1. Can very with it dementia patients learn to respect their caregivers if they pull back on the amount they do for them and the amount of time they are present?
What do you do when the patient insists you are only there for the inheritance and that you are stealing from them when you are not.
Thanks for this question, Barbara. That is a tough situation and we’ll be sure to add this question to our list. We do hope to see you when we go live!
How to handle aggressive behavior when walking away is not an option as they follow closely everywhere
Thanks for this question and we’ll be sure to pass it along. We do hope you can join us at the Q&A live!
My mom is undiagnosed LBD- shows almost all signs though. In a nursing home as of this winter, unable to walk. She stiffens up horribly and frequently . Despite Norco around clock, often in pain. Anything to help the stiffness??
Thanks for this question, Shelly. Getting a diagnosis can be difficult and that stiffness does sound very tough. We will be sure to add this question to our list, and we’re wishing you the best!
My neighbor’s wife has Alzheimers and Capgras Syndrome. She’s an Emerald and occasionally Amber state, esp when she believes the man in her home isn’t her husband (her “real” husband is away at work), but rather a nice man who just helps out. However, she says he’s putting her in a very awkward position being there. She’s been in crisis mode a few times, and they’ve sought my help calming her. Any tips on Capgras? Also, she has started coming to my house in an agitated state needing to “go home,” because they’re packing up the house to sell it so they can move to be near their daughter. It seems that making decisions about what to keep or give away creates a lot of stress for her and increases her wanting to “go home.” What can I tell my neighbor that he can do differently to cause her less stress as they prepare to move?
Thanks for sharing this situation with us and passing along this question for your neighbor. We’ll be sure to add it to our list and we’re wishing your neighbor the best. Thanks again and we hope to see you at the livestream!
We need the caregiving community, and the world frankly, to be better educated on Lewy Body and the many other forms of dementia. It’s not all just Alzheimers. Hoping you can get the ALheimers, Parkinsons etc groups out there helping more.