Positive Approach to Care
- 1. Positive Approach to CareTM Higher Education Network Meeting March 2016 Jayne Murphy and Gill Maidens
- 2. Teepa Snow • Teepa Snow is an Occupational Therapist by background and has 35 years experience in dementia care. • She presents, educates and publishes widely in North America • She recently developed links with the UK through the dynamic dementia project (shared syndicate), which led to a visit to the UK and an offer of training opportunities to UK/Ireland applicants.
- 3. Positive Approach to CareTM • The Positive Approach to Care™ concept was developed to support people living with dementia by equipping both formal and informal carers with specific skills aimed at increasing understanding of what it is like to live with dementia. Teepa’s approach is focused on care delivery, rather than theories.
- 4. Facts and Figures • There are 4 types of certification with Teepa: – Coach certification (for supervisors) – Engagement Certification (for activity coordinators) – Trainer Certification (for educators) – Consultant Certification (for advisors) • All require a level of prior knowledge and experience, an ongoing commitment to demonstrate development and an annual licensing fee
- 5. Positive Approach to Care™ • Is 3 fold: it incorporates the GEMS™ concept, where people living with dementia are viewed as precious gems (sapphire, diamond, emerald, amber, ruby and pearl) and the focus is on what skills remain, rather than what is lost. • It explains the changes in the brain and why people living with dementia may behave in a certain way • It supports the care giver to appreciate what it is like to live with dementia, to accept that the person with dementia is unable to change but that the caregiver can be flexible in their approach to make care giving easier by matching the approach with the specific needs of the individual.
- 6. Positive Approach to Care™ • It encourages the practitioner/care giver to consider their interaction approach to be much more adaptable and person focused – respecting boundaries and creating connections • A hand-under-hand technique is utilised to connect and deliver supportive care (do with rather than to)
- 8. Training Approach: Adult Learning Cycle Experience Share ThinkConnect it Use it
- 10. References • http://sharedsyndicate.org/projects/ • www.teepasnow.com
- 11. Key Aim: To embed dementia education within existing/new programmes • Paramedic Degree • Policing Degree • All Social Work Courses • All Fields of Nursing Programmes • Post Qualifying Nursing Programmes • Community Nursing • Health Visiting • Sports Science Degree Programmes (with a focus on enhancing cognition through exercise)
- 12. What are we embedding? • Awareness: What is it like to live with dementia? • How does stigma and societies attitude impact on the ability to live well with dementia? • Effective Communication • How can all students improve someone’s experience with dementia? (both as a member of society and in their chosen profession)
- 13. What helps? • University Dementia Strategy: Gives direction and focus • Centre for Applied Research and Education in Dementia (CARE in Dementia): Manages all projects • Dementia Action Alliance Action Plan: Focus on developing the University as an employer and become dementia friendly • Designated Catalyst Hours to facilitate projects: Enables facilitation and development of new innovations • Dementia Competency Frameworks: Ensures that we are designing and teaching relevant subjects to agreed standards
- 14. Just some of the changes • All nurses in all fields have the opportuntiy to undertake a dementia championship programme before qualifying. • All Nurses in all fields have an option to do Dementia Friends training on induction. • Plans to teach Nurses, Social Workers, Paramedics, Pharmacy students and Sports Science students together, embracing inter professional learning.
- 15. • Thank you for listening!!