SAVE THE DATEAlzheimer’s & Dementia

Support PresentationWednesday, May 24, 2017

7:00 – 8:30 pm | Wesley Hall“Understanding the Different Dementias —

What’s Normal, What’s Not”

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Caregivers Workshop

Friday, September 8, 20179:00 am – 3:00 pm | Wesley Hall

$10 | Lunch provided | Registration required“Best Practices in Dementia Care”

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support PresentationFriday, September 8, 2017

7:00 – 8:30 pm | Wesley Hall“How to Communicate With Someone

With Dementia”

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Presentation

Thursday, April 12, 20187:00 – 8:30 pm | Wesley Hall

“Reality Orientation — Lying, Go With the Flow, Redirection, Distraction, Validation, Empathy, Confrontation vs. Supportive

Communication”

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Workshop

Friday, April 13, 20189:00 am – 3:00 pm | Wesley Hall

$10 | Lunch provided | Registration required “The Journey of Dementia: Understanding

Progression and How to Modify Support, Care, and Environments to Provide Best Care”

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Support Workshop with Teepa Snow

Friday, September 7, 20189:00 am – 3:00 pm | FUMCFW

$10 | Lunch provided | Registration required

Who is Teepa Snow?One of America’s leading educators on dementia, Teepa Snow offers families and professionals working or living with dementia or other brain changes a new source of hope. Integrating what is now known about brain function and changes that happen with dementing conditions with her special therapeutic approaches, Teepa calls upon 30 years of work as a Registered Occupational Therapist, current medical research, and firsthand caregiving interactions to bring her Positive Approach® to Care techniques and training models to audiences throughout the world.

With a teaching style that is extraordinarily unique, Teepa accurately demonstrates and models the struggles and challenges dementia creates for all parties involved. With her enlightening, witty, entertaining, and energetic delivery of this vital approach to dementia care, Teepa is a sought-after speaker by agencies and organizations across the U.S and Canada.

ALZHEIMER’S & DEMENTIA

SUPPORTUNTIL THERE’S A CURE,

THERE’S CAREUnderstanding that dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life — and that Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia — we bring you this layered series of presentations to prepare you for the exciting September 7, 2018, live presentation by renowned international expert in dementia care:

TEEPA SNOW 

800 W. 5th St.Fort Worth, TX 76102

REGISTER ME NOW!All presentations are free of charge, compliments of a generous benefactor; a requested contribution of $10 for workshops will cover the cost of the lunch provided.

Reservations are required one week before each workshop so we can plan accordingly for meals, seating, and child care.

Child Care: Paula Wagstaffpwagstaff@myfumc.org | 817-546-4414

Event Information: Dr. Bill Longsworthblongsworth@myfumc.org | 817-339-5061

Mail this form and your check, made payable to FUMC Fort Worth with “Teepa Snow” designated in the memo line, to:First United Methodist Church Attn: Dr. Bill Longsworth 800 W. 5th St.Fort Worth, Texas 76102

You can also register and pay online at fumcfw.org/alzsupport.

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Please sign me up for:☐ September 8, 2017 ($10)☐ April 13, 2018 ($10)☐ September 7, 2018 | Teepa Snow live ($10)

What is PAC? Positive Approach to Care (PAC) emphasizes the value of connection when primary verbal communication and interaction abilities are altered. Founded by Teepa Snow in 2005 to offer dementia care education to family and professional care partners all over the world, Positive Approach, LLC reflects Teepa’s personal mission to help families and professionals better understand how it feels to live with the challenges and changes that accompany various forms of dementia. The result? Life lived fully and well at each stage.

What’s different about it?Rather than focusing on a person’s loss when there is brain change, Teepa teaches how to see individuals as precious, unique, and capable — and how to encourage a caring partnership and supportive setting that allows everyone, including care providers, to use what they have to be their best.

Most education models teach the WHAT of dementia care, including mostly facts and information. PAC takes it a step further and teaches the HOW to live in relationship with a changing brain. Teepa Snow’s relational approach and hands-on skill techniques offer the interpersonal skills needed to improve quality of life for everyone involved.

What will I learn?Recognizing the dynamic nature of the human brain and its abilities, Teepa Snow’s GEMS® model equates each stage of dementia with a specific gemstone. Acknowledging that everyone’s abilities can change in a moment, the GEMS model will help you learn how to modify environments, situations, interactions, and expectations to create supportive positive opportunities for care and interaction. And, just as gemstones need different settings and care to show their best characteristics, so do people.

The GEMS model offers a way for everyone living with brain change to have the opportunity to shine.

Why attend all these sessions?This series of presentations of Teepa’s PAC, funded by a special bequest, brings Teepa’s unique approach to dementia care training and education to the Fort Worth community, with First United Methodist Church at its center. This layered series of presentations will include:• Basic information related to dementia: what

it is, what it is not, and what happens when someone is living with it

• More in-depth knowledge and exposure to a variety of skills, expectations, and environmental support modifications

• Experiential training with feedback to help create new habits and practices in care partnering

• How to respond to a person’s change in cognition and abilities in a way that is not hurtful or offensive

• GEMS to help match the functional ability of the person living with dementia with supportive responses

Armed with this new understanding, you’ll be fully ready to take advantage of Teepa’s live presentation on September 7, 2018.

Where can I learn more?In addition to this layered learning series, Teepa training is available through video, online education and information at teepasnow.com, and in-person training and consulting. Contact the FUMCFW Library for access to Teepa’s 14 DVDs, newsletter, and available support materials.