Two Essex nurses have devised a new tool to help with patients suffering from dementia. The Tiptree Box, piloted at Colchester hospital, distracts engages and comforts dementia sufferers to reduce levels of anxiety with a number of items including dusters, pens and envelopes.
One of the creators of the device described how it works. "When patients with dementia are taken out of a familiar environment and go to a strange hospital, they often become more confused, feel displaced, have high levels of anxiety and wander around the ward."
"By giving the patient a duster at least they can make themselves useful by cleaning up as they wander around instead of just getting in the fucking way."
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I saw a programme on tv a while back about a home for dementia sufferers in The Netherlands. They've built a fake bus stop in the grounds where sufferers stand around waiting for an imaginery bus to arrive. It fulfills their needs to ' escape' and they eventually wander back into the home. The number of missing residents has dropped to almost zero.
The question of how to deal with people who are physically intact but mentally missing is a difficult one (and I don't have any real answers).
deal with hmmmmm. Even the language I use when thinking about dementia is negative. I think that's fear of the future.....
Do we do these things so that sufferers are *not causing a problem* to make our lives or their lives easier? I suspect it's more for the benefit of the nurse rather than the patient.
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