Radically Transforming the Experience of Dementia
Radically Transforming the Experience of Dementia
Teepa's Snow Approach™ methods, a series of simple techniques, are based on understanding the areas of the brain that are no longer working and making use of the parts of the brain that are still active, so you can:
- Protect and Grow Your Relationship
- Experience Less Resistance
- Experience Less Stress
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Care Partners That Work With Us Report:
Less Stress and More Balance in their Lives
An Increase in Meaningful Interactions
Increased Confidence in the Care They Offer
Have you experienced dementia care frustrations?
Feeling confused as your efforts to help often hit resistance?
Feeling overwhelmed trying to keep up with everything?
You're unsure whether you're up to the job and feel tired and stressed?
You deserve to know practical dementia care skills, so that you can experience life-changing results like the thousands of care partners that have worked with us:
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Your Dementia Care Partner
Most dementia care education focuses on theory, with little practical advice.
Teepa Snow and her company Positive Approach to Care (PAC) offer both – theory to help you understand what is happening to the brain, paired with practical techniques so you can not just survive, but thrive as a care partner.
With over 40 years of experience, dementia expert Teepa Snow and her PAC Team can help you overcome challenges.
Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care’s mission is to transform the experience of dementia – worldwide.
This means transforming the dementia experience for families, care communities, home care agencies, corporate organizations, governments, and all individuals currently working with a dementia or brain change diagnosis.
Whatever category you are in, PAC has workable solutions, skills, and approaches to bring real hope, possibility, and significant shifts to your experience of dementia and dementia care.
We are currently working with governments, individual families, agencies, facilities, hospital systems, and academic institutions around the US and internationally to implement PAC’s Snow Approach.
To learn more or to schedule a conversation, click the Contact Us button or the category below that best matches where you are:
Your 3-Step Plan to Dementia Care Success
What is the Snow Approach?
The 3-Pronged Snow Approach, developed by world renowned dementia expert Teepa Snow, empowers caregivers in these simple steps:
What is dementia?
Understand what is happening to the brain of the person in your care
How will this progress?
Understand how the changes affect the person you're caring for
What can you do?
Learn practical skills that can help you survive and connect with the person in your care
Teepa Snow and those who are living with dementia expertly guide support and care that is life-changing
Learn Teepa's Highly-Effective Care Techniques
Developed by dementia expert Teepa Snow, Hand-under-Hand® (HuH) is an evidence-based technique to support and assist a person living with dementia with tasks like eating, drinking, bathing, getting dressed, and more.
HuH places pressure to the palm of the hand, NOT around the top of the hand, sides, or base of the digit, thus protecting both people from injury.
Benefits of Hand-under-Hand® (HuH)
- Lets the person maintain a feeling of control and independence
- Utilizes remaining muscle memory to help the brain process the situation
- Reduces resistant behaviors
- Increases meal intake
HuH modulates the activation of the hypothalamus, the gland that controls, among other functions, the stress response (Coan, Schaefer, & Davidson, 2006). Using HuH with a person living with dementia can offer comfort and initiate activity. It also enables care partners to better assist with activities of daily living, such as eating, drinking, or personal care.
Compared to the commonly used direct hand or hand over hand approaches, HuH elicits the least amount of resistive responses while giving the person living with dementia a greater sense of participation in their daily care (Baranoski, 2005; Barry, McConnell, Duea, & Blodgett, 2022; Batchelor-Murphy, 2015; Batchelor-Murphy, Amella, Zapka, Mueller, & Beck, 2015; Batchelor-Aselage, Amella, Rose, & Bales, 2015; Batchelor-Murphy, McConnell, Amella, Anderson, Bales, Silva, Barnes, Beck, & Colon-Emeric, 2017; Battersby, 2009; Beldon, 2006; Groom et al. 2010).
For more research details, please visit out Research page.
Coan, Schaefer, & Davidson (2006)
Baranoski (2005)
Barry, McConnell, Duea, & Blodgett (2022)
Batchelor-Murphy (2015)
Batchelor-Murphy, Amella, Zapka, Mueller, & Beck (2015)
Batchelor-Aselage, Amella, Rose, & Bales (2015)
Batchelor-Murphy, McConnell, Amella, Anderson, Bales, Silva, Barnes, Beck, & Colon-Emeric (2017)
Battersby (2009)
Beldon (2006)
Groom et al. (2010)
For more research details, please visit our Research on Policy page.
The Positive Physical Approach™ (PPA) is a 6-9 step method used to approach and connect with a person living with dementia, resulting in a reduced chance of agitation and greater mutual understanding and comfort.
PPA was developed based on the knowledge that a person living with dementia experiences their environment differently than a person with a healthy brain.
PPA is a dynamic assessment of the other person’s willingness, comfort, and ability to engage and interact. PPA uses as many retained skills as possible in order to do with, not to when caring for someone living with dementia.
Care Partners, therefore, learn how to change their own actions accordingly, and how to use this improved personal connection to encourage participation in various care tasks or situations.
Benefits of the Positive Physical Approach® (PPA)
- Establishes a mutually welcoming connection
- Reduces the risk of surprising and agitating the person living with dementia
- Opens opportunities for continued connection for easier task completion
- Functions as a dynamic assessment of the other person's willingess, comfort, and ability to interact, reducing your risk of surprising negative reactions
HuH modulates the activation of the hypothalamus, the gland that controls, among other functions, the stress response (Coan, Schaefer, & Davidson, 2006). Using HuH with a person living with dementia can offer comfort and initiate activity. It also enables care partners to better assist with activities of daily living, such as eating, drinking, or personal care.
Compared to the commonly used direct hand or hand over hand approaches, HuH elicits the least amount of resistive responses while giving the person living with dementia a greater sense of participation in their daily care (Baranoski, 2005; Barry, McConnell, Duea, & Blodgett, 2022; Batchelor-Murphy, 2015; Batchelor-Murphy, Amella, Zapka, Mueller, & Beck, 2015; Batchelor-Aselage, Amella, Rose, & Bales, 2015; Batchelor-Murphy, McConnell, Amella, Anderson, Bales, Silva, Barnes, Beck, & Colon-Emeric, 2017; Battersby, 2009; Beldon, 2006; Groom et al. 2010).
For more research details, please visit out Research page.
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Positive Personal Connections (PPC), an approach developed by Teepa Snow, are five phrases that help care partners connect with the person living with dementia before jumping into the task.
By putting the relationship first, interactions are more likely to result in positive outcomes.
Positive Action Starters (PAS), an approach developed by Teepa Snow, are five phrases that help care partners receive less resistance and refusals when getting started with a care task.
Benefits of Positive Personal Connections (PPC) and Positive Action Starters (PAS)
- Establishes a genuine connection with the person living with dementia
- Puts the relationship front and center, strengthening your bond and reducing agitation
- Helps the person feel seen and respected instead as a task to get done
HuH modulates the activation of the hypothalamus, the gland that controls, among other functions, the stress response (Coan, Schaefer, & Davidson, 2006). Using HuH with a person living with dementia can offer comfort and initiate activity. It also enables care partners to better assist with activities of daily living, such as eating, drinking, or personal care.
Compared to the commonly used direct hand or hand over hand approaches, HuH elicits the least amount of resistive responses while giving the person living with dementia a greater sense of participation in their daily care (Baranoski, 2005; Barry, McConnell, Duea, & Blodgett, 2022; Batchelor-Murphy, 2015; Batchelor-Murphy, Amella, Zapka, Mueller, & Beck, 2015; Batchelor-Aselage, Amella, Rose, & Bales, 2015; Batchelor-Murphy, McConnell, Amella, Anderson, Bales, Silva, Barnes, Beck, & Colon-Emeric, 2017; Battersby, 2009; Beldon, 2006; Groom et al. 2010).
For more research details, please visit out Research page.
Need Beth’s help here. 🙂
For more research details, please visit out Research page.
What You Get
Techniques that increase harmony and benefit relationships
Resources for caregivers of all backgrounds that fit any budget
Practical information not shared anywhere else
Skills to create meaningful moments even with dementia in the picture
Skills that create a respectful and dignified care environment
Skills to make it through the day and night
What Those We Worked With Had to Say:
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