RESOURCES
Gather your Gear for your Dementia Care Voyage
RESOURCES
Gather your Gear for your Dementia Care Voyage
brochure
Download Our Brochure!
This is a great resource to reference, print and share with others who are in need of dementia care education, coaching, support and guidance.
Presentation Menu
Workshops & Presentations
This list of workshops and presentations are flexible and can be mixed and adjusted to meet your needs for staff training or community engagements.
Dive in Deeper
2-Hour Intensive Practice Session
Gear Day is a two hour intensive practice session where we focus on continuing to build on skills specific to a variety areas of dementia care tailored to your unique situation and challenges.
Gather your gear
Navigate the Waters in Dementia Care
When someone gets diagnosed with dementia, IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
This tool is designed to help you plan for current and future needs.
While you are exploring the reality of the person with dementia and getting used to the water, you will need to gather your gear for the journey. By gathering our gear, we are able to dive in prepared and gives us time to come to the surface, get a breath a fresh air – time to be us, not a care partner – and dive back in again.
Professional Workshops
Dementia Care Courses
Dementia Care Champion Courses
These interactive courses will help learners focus on Positive Physical Approach to improve connections, relationships, and task completion.
Creating Engagement Opportunities
Offering engaging experiences for people living with dementia can be challenging as they each retain different skills. This workshop guides the learners through recognizing what people with dementia CAN STILL do and adjusting experiences to meet these abilities.
Fish Approach
One of our most popular requests! This interactive workshop that focuses on communication strategies that build trust, understanding, and improves relationships between care partners and people living with brain changes.
fish APPROACH
Better Understanding of the Dementia Perspective and Tips to Avoid
People with dementia are like fish in the water. This tip sheet helps care partners better understand the dementia experience and provides helpful communication snags to avoid.
unmet needs Meter
Communication Tool to Help Decode Emotions and Behaviors that can Correspond with an Unmet Need
Our goal isn’t to stop the person living with brain changes from communicating their need, but to interpret the need they are communicating. Emotions and behaviors that are displayed are clues to what the person’s unmet need is, and allows us to try to respond to that need.
Dementia Resource Guide
Local and International Resources
This Resource Guide is developed by a local Dementia Friendly Community Coalition and offers resources and options for people regardless of your location. Information about Advanced Directives to Medications to Safety and where to find more answers to your questions are available in this guide.
Unlock The Key To
Positive Dementia Care
Ready to take the next step?
Step 1 - Fill in the form below with a way for us to reach you, including the best email and phone number to reach out.
Step 2 - Tell us briefly about your situation and what you're seeking help with in the "message" field.
Step 3 - A Dementia Care Consultant will connect with you shortly after about ways in which we can help you achieve your dementia care goals.
Disclaimer: I am certified to implement the teachings and trainings about dementia of Teepa Snow and the Positive Approach to Care® (PAC). While based on the educational content from Teepa, and inspired by my Certification, views or opinions expressed, and additional content offered here, are representative of me, independent of the PAC organization.
