Getting In & Out of Cars with Dementia
July 20, 2025
What Dementia Cannot Smell
TEEPA CARE-TIP VIDEO:
Dementia dangerously alters a person's sense of smell. Teepa Snow brings to light what people with dementia smell - and what they don't. Learn to prevent hazards and frustrations. (Video)
MORE INFORMATION:
- Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA is a nationally acclaimed Alzheimer's and dementia care specialist. With over 30 years of experience, Teepa Snow teaches her students how a person with dementia perceives his/her world and how caregivers can best provide dignity and the best quality of life.
SOURCE:
- This video is an excerpt of a Teepa Snow seminar called, "Making Visits Valuable", given for the Alzheimer's Support Network.
Related:
How To Care for Sundowning
June 20, 2025
Ten Ways to Get Alzheimer’s Patients to Bathe
May 21, 2025
Sibling Guide to Caring for Aging Parents
May 20, 2025
Ease the Stress
May 11, 2025
“Alive Inside” – The Music for Alzheimer’s Movie
April 25, 2025
Edited by:
Peter Berger
With experience in dementia caregiving, public education, and Alzheimer’s-focused writing—and a professional research background shaped in what many consider one of the world’s top laboratories—I work to make complex findings clear, practical, and genuinely helpful for families and professionals providing care.
Welcome. About this Site.
This site was inspired by my Mom’s autoimmune dementia.
It is a place where we separate out the wheat from the chafe, the important articles & videos from each week’s river of news. Google gets a new post on Alzheimer’s or dementia every 7 minutes. That can overwhelm anyone looking for help. This site filters out, focuses on and offers only the best information. it has helped hundreds of thousands of people since it debuted in 2007. Thanks to our many subscribers for your supportive feedback.
The site is dedicated to all those preserving the dignity of the community of people living with dementia.
Peter Berger, Editor
Share this page To
Dementia Books & Videos on Amazon:
More From Alzheimer's Weekly
Exercise
Skiing Cuts Vascular Dementia Risk in Half
STUDY OF 200,000 SWEDE SKIERS: 50% less likely to develop vascular dementia, half as likely to be depressed, and if Parkinson’s strike, it’s very delayed – despite pathological changes in the brain. Learn more.
No Comments
Care Tips
Guns & Dementia
Elderly Americans are the most likely citizens to own a gun AND the most likely patients to have dementia. How great is the danger? What should be done?
5 Comments
Products
5-in-1 Handybar Eases Getting In and Out of Cars
This grab-bar for cars makes getting in and out an easy affair. It glides into any door-latch. Its heavy-duty construction allows an elderly person to lean on it with their full body weight as they enter or exit their vehicle. Kit includes door straps for added ease.
No Comments
Weekly Quotes
Thought of the Week: Count Your Life
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall.
Count your life with the smiles, and not the tears that roll.
1 Comment
Share to Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Welcome. About this Site.
This site was inspired by my Mom’s autoimmune dementia.
It is a place where we separate out the wheat from the chafe, the important articles & videos from each week’s river of news. Google gets a new post on Alzheimer’s or dementia every 7 minutes. That can overwhelm anyone looking for help. This site filters out, focuses on and offers only the best information. it has helped hundreds of thousands of people since it debuted in 2007. Thanks to our many subscribers for your supportive feedback.
The site is dedicated to all those preserving the dignity of the community of people living with dementia.
Peter Berger, Editor
Visit Alzheimer's Weekly On
is there a transcript available? i can't get the video to play.
There is a transcript available on YouTube.com.
I don't have a sense of smell and never did. I get along just fine without it. I am 52 years old.
Yes but there is a difference between learning to live without a sense of smell at a very early age and learning to live without a sense of smell after at least 50-60+ years of using it and relying on it just as much as your other senses. Anyone would be thrown off in a major way just with the loss of smell alone. Then throw in the change in mental ability and comprehension that comes with Dementia.
Very interesting