What is the Positive Approach to Care (PAC), and how does it differ from traditional perspectives on dementia care?
Answer
The Positive Approach to Care offers a different understanding of dementia's pathologies, focusing on connecting and interacting with individuals with dementia by "doing with" rather than "doing to." It emphasizes sensitivity, compassion, understanding, and flexibility to enhance and preserve the dignity of the person with dementia. The mantra is that "Dementia doesn't rob someone of their dignity. It is our reaction to them that does."
Laurie Walther is an ASHA-certified, Texas-licensed SLP with over 30 years of experience primarily in Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living, Memory Support, and Acute Care Hospital Settings. She is the co-founder and principal of Empowering Care Partners, a company providing training and consulting to individuals living with dementia and their care partners, including family members, dementia care professionals, and organizations. She is a Certified Independent Trainer with Teepa Snow's Positive Approach to Care. She has served as a mentor and leader to her partners, corporate members, staff clinicians, families and caregivers, and patients and residents. She has created many clinical, educational, and operational programs that have been carried out at the community level, corporate-wide, nationally, and internationally. Laurie has been a staff clinician, clinical leader, director of rehab, regional director, and senior vice president of rehab. She loves teaching, mentoring, and leading individuals to maximize their best to support those we serve.
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