This DVD is now available at Amazon.com. Visit www.amazon.com The Pines Education Institute of SW Florida presents “The Art of Caregiving”, facilitated by Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA. Learn Teepa Snow’s effective hands-on techniques to ease your daily caregiving tasks and increase the quality of life for your loved one or patient. In this 2-hour training DVD, Teepa demonstrates effective approaches to bathing, eating, dressing, transfers, and how to respond to certain types of behaviors in patients with dementia. For more information or to buy the DVD, please visit pinesofsarasota.org © 2011, Pines Education Institute of SW Florida and Teepa Snow
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Hi Teepas,
In answer to your question, I’m speaking about rehab services. As I said, meds and behavioral techniques can be employed to assist folks with Dementia (I’m referring to the progressive Dementias) and that’s all. I guess since working with Demented patients is reimbursable, those patients will keep on ‘getting treatment’ but it is NOT rehab. Rehab is teaching and there is no teaching that can occur except the teaching of the aides/family that provide custodial care for the patient.
I do find that excellent therapy providers should be working with the person and their care partner
Here are two web sites with examples of improved interactions and outcomes – later stages
go to dementia care central .com look in the care provider section and look at videos on grooming and dressing
Hi –
It sounds like you are frustrated with some of the services and programs that are out there. But I do believe and have truly found that people with dementia even late into the disease can really benefit from good therapy efforts.
One question – are you talking about psychotherapy-talk therapy or rehab therapy (OT, PT, SLP services)? If done well, both types can still have huge impact and change lives.
thanks for the video. here’s my problem: I don’t understand how any medical intervention other than some meds and certain behavioral techniques can make working with someone with Dementia more effective. I get angry when therapists say they can work with people with Dementia when I know it’s not possible–goals have to be pretty creative and ‘treatment’ more so. Once at the moderate stage, nothing can change the behavior of a person with Dementia.
@sabymoon My grandmother doesn’t seem quite that back with hallucinations, the worst shell do is think she washed some kind of jacket that doesn’t exist, but she will swear that it does. Thats just one example.
Lately shes been takin lots large amounts of xanax. and it is making all of the symptoms she had right before her aneurism come back,doc say her heart in bad shape. she really pisses me off, she doesnt know how to live for her self yet she thinks shes king of the universe and perfect!
@broadcastmyass4u from family experience… It’s weird, but they can hallucinate little people, kids playing in the corner, other residents of the senior center ganging up against, and talking about them; or, if given some mood altering medications, very happy hallucinations. “How are You, today?” Oh, I just got back from Florida, where I was in a circus riding a pony. “That’s amazing, Marie, I thought you were afraid of horses.” Well, no, I was riding horse back (Marie, 87, died 3 months later.
@broadcastmyass4u From what I’ve heard, of my BFs mom, it’s very vivid, like right there clear as day. Well for her it seems to be.
I’m very sorry to hear you grandma has been so difficult to deal with. If you have a chance, check out Teepa’s website at
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She has some useful information on her website and you can also ask her questions directly.
Also, we have a variety of downloadable PDFs on our website that might give you some more useful information:
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(Sorry for breaking up the links; I can’t post them otherwise.) Hope these help a bit!
@PinesofSarasota Hey she takes xanax and painpills and they definitly make her ten times worse. I forgot to mention that she had an aneurism a few years back and everything about her sickness has multiplied. It’s really hard to handle her, i feel like i’m dealing with a kid a lot of the times :
@PinesofSarasota What kind of hallucinations? Iike whole people that aren’t there walking into the room? or more like an LSD trip?
Also, anti-psychotic drugs can increase the frequency and severity of hallucinations and make their behaviors worse. If your grandmother is given any of these drugs you might want to ask your doctor for alternatives during her next visit.
@broadcastmyass4u: Yes, patients with Lewy-Body dementia have violent and irrational outbursts of anger, as this form of dementia causes very vivid hallucinations. These hallucinations tend to be extremely violent and seem very real to the affected person, which makes them very difficult to handle.
You explained my grandmother to a T,, Do they also have violent and irrational outbursts of anger when they’re by theirselves? My grandmother is doing this more and more frequently, slamming doors, objects, just a lot of stuff slamming around, then when i appoach her she completely changes mood and will deny any outburst, even try and turn it around on me acting like i’m crazy and hearing things. She also has extremely exagerated anxieties, actually kind of delusional. What causes this disease?
I am greatful to have found your video. The delivery is clear and easy to understand.I believe I have found the correct diagnosis for Mom.