Welcome toTeepa’s Corner~

 This page is deadicated to the educational insights & teachings of Miss Teepa Snow. From time to time please re-visit our page to see updates & additions to Teepa’s corner with new videos & slides. We hope this will educate & inspire you! We will be adding videos & slides from Teepa from time to time , so re-visit us for more from Teepa!

  Hopefully you were able to join us for our Teepa Day 2011 at the Santa Rosa Hilton on Feb.21st. Promoting Wellness & Well being  in the morning and Creating days of Joy & Meaning in the afternoon.

Teepa has allowed us to have access to from her Presentation. We hope you will find them to be of great use for you. May you be inspired and encouraged by her teachings. We at Home Instead Senior Care, use her training videos to teach her techniques to all our CAREGivers. If you are a family CAREGiver in need of respite care, Home Instead is here for you! If you are a  professional, you can rest assured when you recommend Home Instead to families looking for home care whether they live in  Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Windsor, Healdsburg any where in Sonoma county,   that You know those CAREGivers are properly trained!

Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA

Teepa is a dementia expert who trains and consults for agencies, facilities, and families. Her training as a master’s prepared occupational therapist as well as her extensive and varied work and teaching experience provides Teepa with a unique perspective of how the brain controls our body and our behaviors. This history has provided her a perfect neurosciences background to explain how a brain disease like dementia affects a person.

She started her career as a direct care giver over 35 years ago, an NA before there was a “C”. She has taken care of two family members with dementing illnesses. The combination of her been-there-done-that skills and her formal training give Teepa the credibility and experience to help caregivers with tried-and-true solutions.

Teepa’s philosophy is based on years of making mistakes and perfecting a positive approach to caregiving. Her teaching style integrates facts about the brain and how it works, or doesn’t work in the case of dementia, with expertise in adult learning principles. She is able to go in and out of character as a typical person with Alzheimer’s to demonstrate common issues and problems and to help care providers learn new ways of thinking and managing themselves for better outcome sand results.

Teepa is an advocate for those living with dementia and has made it her personal mission to help family and professional caregivers better understand how it feels to have dementia so they too can be better caregivers. Since her lectures are usually done in the first-person – as if she is the person with dementia – her training gives the audience a first-hand understanding and experience with the disease and a hands-on opportunity to try out new skills in a safe and fun environment.

Candy & Baby Tristeenah

We’re so happy to have our staffing manager, Candy,  back from maternity leave.  

Tristeenah Wilson was born November 20th, 2009!  Don’t you just love that little bundle of joy!   And she’s got a head of hair, too.

Welcome back Candy, and welcome Tristeenah into the world!  Simply adorable.

Candy started her career in 1998 as a Certified Nursing Assistant/Home Health Aide, working with patients in nursing facilities and hospitals. She came to Home Care as a Home Health Aide and then moved into staffing.

She has been Staffing Manager with Home Instead Sonoma for over 3 years and excels at matching the best CAREgiver for each client. The process is truly magical the way it comes together for both the client and the CAREgiver.

We’re thrilled about Paul & Lori Hogan’s new book entitled, Stages of Senior Care and all the media exposure, including Fox News.  Our Be a Santa to a Senior gift tree program is underway with the wrapping party on December 18th.  And we welcome our new staffing coordinator, Katie Nagle, to the team.

Home Instead Senior Care^® is a reliable source of home care for seniors in Sonoma County. Services include senior  in-home care, companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, shopping, errands, dementia and Alzheimer’s care plus much more.  For a free, no-obligation consultation, please call our Rohnert Park office at 707.586.1516 today.  We serve all of Sonoma County including Rohnert Park, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Windsor and more.

Home Instead Senior Care of Sonoma County welcomes you to our new blog.  We will have many resources for you in the coming months and lots of things are happening right now.  Paul & Lori Hogan’s new book just got released entitled, Stages of Senior Care.  And our Be a Santa to a Senior program will be launched right after Thanksgiving.  And more to come. 

Home Instead Senior Care^® is a reliable source of home care for seniors in Sonoma County. Services include senior  in-home care, companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, shopping, errands, Alzheimer’s care and much more.  For a free, no-obligation consultation, please call our Rohnert Park office at 707.586.1516 today.