In this episode, I am shining the caregiver spotlight on someone in the caregiving space who has my utmost respect – Teepa Snow. She’s an Occupational Therapist with over 40 years of rich and varied clinical and academic experience. Her company, Positive Approach to Care® (PAC) provides online and in-person education and products for dementia patients. I can say firsthand that Teepa presents extraordinary expertise and humor to audiences worldwide.
In this show, we learn how Teepa’s experience caring for grandparents shaped her career focus, the language, and visual cues to use to better communicate with our care partner, her self-care rituals, where she obtains her trusted dementia information, how her training may also help better communicate with persons with developmental disabilities, and the story of how she got the name ‘Teepa’.
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- Where Teepa goes for the latest information on brain health:
- Dementia International Alliance
- National Institute on Aging (Dementia Research)
- Lewy Body Dementia Association
- Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration
- Being Patient (Alzheimer’s news, advice, stories, & support)
- Create your own 22 for 2022 list
- One of Teepa’s 22 for 2022 – visiting Carlsbad Caverns with her family.
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- All of the prompts from the lightning round segment of the show are borrowed from Elizabeth’s book Just For You: a Daily Self-Care Journal.
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