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Remember the time
The healthcare project at Bradford Royal Infirmary shows how small changes to patients’ environment can have a significant impact on their wellbeing.
Giving patients with dementia ‘memory boxes’ to keep by their beds has helped them to locate which bed is theirs, promote recollection of past experiences and encourage greater interaction with staff as there is a fixed, personal topic for conversations.
As well as the practical benefits of keeping track of patients, reducing the amount of people wandering the corridors and limiting anxiety, the unquantifiable improvement to their quality of life must be welcomed.
Innovative ideas such as this treat patients with cognitive difficulties as people, rather than cases where it is easier to simply give up.
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