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Continuing Education

We offer the Positive Approach® to Care (PAC) philosophy as a program of continuing education units for therapists, nurses, and audiologists throughout the Tampa Bay Area, Sarasota, and Land O' Lakes.

Convenient continuing education credits that you can use every day don’t need to be hard to come by. Angels Senior Living offers CEU courses focused on dementia and Alzheimer’s to our own employees, and we’re now giving your own facility and staff the same access. You can benefit individually and your team can also benefit and better serve your residents or patients who deal with memory recall issues by joining us! Learn Teepa Snow’s revolutionary method, the philosophy of the Positive Approach® to Care, and prepare for a total shift in your understanding of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Angels Senior Living is an authorized provider of Teepa Snow’s philosophy of Positive Approach® to Care, a comprehensive series of techniques developed by to improve quality of life for individuals who live with brain change in their lifetimes. Our Positive Approach® to Care Certified Independent Trainers will provide you with the tools you need to understand changes in the brain that come with aging. Armed with this novel approach to treating Alzheimer’s and dementia, you can better identify the mindsets and retained skills of your patients, giving you more opportunities to create positive connections with your patients and their family members. We offer both all-inclusive and incremental courses to give you flexibility over scheduling, all of which can be done below or from our convenient online booking portal. Most courses are administered at our corporate office, located at 4801 George Rd, Suite 190, Tampa, FL 33634.

Philosophy of the Positive Approach® to Care (PAC) Workshop: Normal vs. Not Normal Aging

Tracking Number: 20-736288

This workshop is designed to assist learners in understanding and recognizing differences between normal and not normal aging. We’ll emphasize learning and matching helping behaviors to a person’s needs and retained abilities. This helps participants better relate to patients or residents living with dementia.

Philosophy of the Positive Approach® to Care (PAC) Workshop: Positive Physical Approaches, Hand-Under-Hand, and Using Teepa Snow’s GEMs Model

Tracking Number: 20-741540

This comprehensive workshop focuses on the PAC care partnering techniques, the GEMs model, and improving communication to foster positive outcomes. These skills shift the provider-patient relationship from dealing with behaviors originating with dementia to understanding and creating a positive care environment.

Philosophy of the Positive Approach® to Care (PAC) Workshop: Positive Physical Approaches, Hand-Under-Hand, and Using Teepa Snow’s GEMs Model

Tracking Number: 20-741540

This comprehensive workshop focuses on the PAC care partnering techniques, the GEMs model, and improving communication to foster positive outcomes. These skills shift the provider-patient relationship from dealing with behaviors originating with dementia to understanding and creating a positive care environment.

Angels Senior Living will provide all necessary equipment and certification documents during the group workshop.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Continuing Education Units and Positive Approach® to Care Philosophy

The GEMs model appreciates the changing nature of the human brain and focuses on how best to accommodate those changes meaningfully. By making small changes to how you approach treating dementia and Alzheimer’s, you can have a tremendous impact on the lives of your patients or residents.

Courses are typically offered every month at our corporate location. You can view our schedule above.

Our CEU workshops are approved for therapists by the governing physical, occupational, and speech therapy bodies. We also can provide CEUs for nurses and audiologists.

Specifically, we’re certified by the following boards:

The benefits of understanding dementia better don’t start or stop with your workplace. You can apply the same techniques to working with friends and family experiencing dementia or other memory loss. In either situation, you’ll now have access to valuable insight that will help you and other caregivers you work with understand how dementia changes the brain and foster positive interactions and change.

Teepa Snow is a highly respected health care professional who specializes in neurological impairment. Teepa’s idea to encourage other health care professionals to rethink how we see and treat dementia began in roughly 2007. You can read more about her long career and credentials on her website.

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Our workshops are ideal for around fifteen to twenty participants.