How to Help a Person Living with Dementia Brush their Teeth - with Teepa Snow

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Dental care, immensely important to a person’s overall health, becomes more and more challenging for care partners as the person’s dementia progresses.

Learn effective techniques to handle challenging situations and provide the best dental care for a person living with dementia, including but not limited to Alzheimers, Lewy Body, or Frontotemporal Dementia.

Learn:

- about causes for common dental care issues and how to overcome them
- why people living with dementia are likely to react negatively to common oral care procedures
- about changes in motor skills and sensation
- about vision changes, such as binocular vision and inability to recognize objects
- about verbal, visual, auditory, touch, and tactile cues to improve cooperation
- how to create a more calming environment through changes to lighting, temperature, and more
- about techniques and tools to adapt oral care techniques to increase cooperation and improve dental care results

View the full-length program instantly on online video streaming at https://teepasnow.com/product/dental-... or DVD on https://teepasnow.com/product/dental_...

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