July NEWSLETTER 2024

NOT MUCH SUN, BUT PLENTY OF FUN!

 TEEPA CAME TO TOWN

We were delighted to welcome back the legend in dementia care Teepa Snow and her Positive Approach to Care (PAC)® team for a week from 1st to 5th July. We were thrilled to have attendees from all over the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, France, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

The participants were inspired, grateful, emotional and determined to spread the awareness that they had gained. They experienced numerous “Aha” moments, reflected in the comments some of them made, such as “You don’t realise what you don’t know” and “I am so upset I didn’t know this when I was caring for my dad”. The delegates spent a week in a beautiful marquee in the Devonshire’s tranquil garden and enjoyed making new friends whilst practising what they learnt. There was plenty of breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea to sustain learning. Dementia creates changes in factual memory, but the emotional memory of feeling is still there. We learnt how not to trigger the emotional fight or flight response to decrease any screaming, punching and fighting back.

PAC training is very specific and is aimed at various adult learning methods, which is so easy and appeals to all minds. Teepa’s Snow Approach™ is a series of simple techniques based on understanding the areas of the brain that are no longer working and encouraging the parts of the brain that are still active, so you can protect and grow your relationship as well as experience less resistance and stress. It therefore showed us how to focus on retained abilities of the person living with dementia. Not focusing on the losses.

Homepage - Positive Approach to Care (teepasnow.com)

Events from August 2 – September 6 › Champion Course › – Positive Approach to Care – Shop (teepasnow.com) 

BIRTHDAYS  

We celebrated the Birthdays of Cathy and Vivien! Each Resident had a lovely day spent with family and our care team.

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH

We want to congratulate Ramesh in recognition of his dedication, passion and hard work.

SAD FAREWELL

We bid a sad farewell to Devika, who passed away. Our thoughts and prayers
are with her family at this sad time. May she rest in eternal peace. We will all miss her.

SINGING GROUP & COFFEE MORNING

with even more fabulous flavour and fun! From Rubina waving her hands in the air to ‘New York-New York’ to Kathleen’s magical expression that radiated towards Jacqui and her husband Tony, our Residents filled the dancefloor with style and flow.

WIMBLEDON TENNIS

Fun in the sun at the Devonshire Club.