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presented by Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
Financial: Teepa Snow receives compensation from MedBridge for this course. There is no financial interest beyond the production of this course.
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Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
Teepa Snow is an advocate for those living with dementia and has made it her personal mission to help families and professionals better understand how it feels to be living with such challenges and seeks to change and improve life for everyone involved. Her practice has included everything from neuro-intensive care units in tertiary hospitals…
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1. Seeing Dementia as More than Loss When Providing Assistance
This chapter will compare Global Deterioration Scale to GEMS State Model for providing support and care that match remaining abilities.
2. Building Your Skills for Care
This chapter will have learners identify the level being demonstrated through the use of symptoms and behaviors. This chapter will also highlight the impact of positive reinforcement for effort and engagement in the task.
3. Working with Sapphires and Diamonds
This chapter will demonstrate and discuss the progression of the disease using role play and symptom identification by GEM State, Sapphires & Diamonds. This chapter will also demonstrate and discuss the value of matching visual, verbal, and touch cues to the person’s demonstrated retained ability sets in task performance. Finally, the chapter will highlight the impact of positive reinforcement for effort and engagement in the task.
4. Working with Emeralds
This chapter will demonstrate and discuss the progression of the disease using role play and symptom identification of the Emeralds GEM State. This chapter will also demonstrate and discuss the value of matching visual, verbal, and touch cues to the person’s demonstrated retained ability sets in task performance. The chapter will highlight the impact of positive reinforcement for effort and engagement in the task.
5. Working with Ambers
This chapter will demonstrate and discuss the progression of the disease using role play and symptom identification for the GEM State of Amber. This chapter will also demonstrate and discuss the value of matching visual, verbal, and touch cues to the person's demonstrated retained ability sets in task performance.
6. Working with Rubies
This chapter will demonstrate and discuss the progression of the disease using role play and symptom identification for the GEM State of Rubies. The chapter will also demonstrate and discuss the value of matching visual, verbal, and touch cues to the person’s demonstrated retained ability sets in task performance. Finally, the chapter will highlight the impact of positive reinforcement for effort and engagement in the task.
7. Working with Pearls
This chapter will demonstrate and discuss the progression of the disease using role play and symptom identification for the GEM State of Pearl. This chapter will also demonstrate and discuss the value of matching visual, verbal, and touch cues to the person’ demonstrated retained ability sets in task performance. Finally, this chapter will highlight the impact of positive reinforcement for effort and engagement in the task.
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