“I Am Sorry, This is Hard” plus 5 More Care Phrases
TEEPA CARE TIPS VIDEO: Teepa Snow, Dementia-care Specialist, shares 6 key phrases that help you help people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
TEEPA CARE TIPS VIDEO: Teepa Snow, Dementia-care Specialist, shares 6 key phrases that help you help people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
TEEPA CARE-TIPS VIDEO: Why focus on what people with dementia lose? Focus on what they have. Teepa shows how to make the most from those
TED VIDEO: Artist Tony Luciani was testing out a new camera when his 91-year-old mother with dementia, Elia, snuck into the background of his photos.
ETHICS VIDEO: 3 professors at the prestigious Stanford University Center for Ethics in Society share differing thoughts on respecting the autonomy of people with dementia,
TEEPA SNOW VIDEO: People with dementia can say, do and act in the most frustrating ways. Learn why it happens the way it does, how
TEEPA SNOW CARE TIPS – VIDEO: A person with dementia may wonder, “What do I do now?” or “How do I do what I want
CARE TIPS & BOOKS: Good communication is critical when families and friends get together. Communicating may be difficult between people with memory-loss and their loved
COMMUNICATING WITH DEMENTIA – VIDEO: Four teenagers and young adults tell us about their experiences of having a relative with dementia, as well as sharing
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PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: Caregivers love this pill box, as do patients and professionals. Simply fill it once a month. Roomy, simple, ingenious.
TEEPA VIDEO: What do you do when someone with dementia insists on going home, again and again? Watch Teepa Snow do it with style, in yet another great care video.
PREVENTING ELDER ABUSE VIDEO:
How trustworthy are care facilities? Care professionals are self-sacrificing, hard-working and compassionate. Yet, one careless moment can quickly snowball into elder abuse. Watch this true story.
An intriguing study of 120 grandmothers might surprise you. Doctors know socially engaged people have better cognition and less dementia. But can a person get too much of a good thing? What’s the right balance?
If you couldn’t see your mashed potatoes, you probably wouldn’t eat them. That’s why what “The Red Plate Study” found was astonishing! Alzheimer’s patients eating from red plates consumed 25 percent more food than those eating from white plates. Find out why.
Enjoy this great duet between a musician with dementia and his son. A triumph of spirit over Alzheimer’s! Sing-a-long if you like!
It looks like a sneeze cannot give anyone Alzheimer’s. While Alzheimer’s abnormal disease proteins do spread from cell-to-cell, they are not “infectious”. Check out the facts.
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