They changed the doors and gave dementia patients a piece of home back. In the Netherlands certain nursing homes discovered a straightforward yet meaningful solution to help residents with dementia feel safer and more at ease. Staff place life size stickers depicting each person’s original front door on the entrance to their current room. Instead of facing hallways of nearly identical doors residents now recognize something deeply familiar. The specific color the shape and the unique details of the home they once lived in stand out clearly. These custom decals known as True Doors reduce disorientation make individual rooms simpler to identify and help preserve important personal memories. The approach restores dignity for family members. It encourages greater independence for residents according to caregivers. Most importantly it transforms a standard room into a warmer more comforting space that genuinely feels like home. Compassion does not always demand elaborate measures. In many cases it can begin with something as simple as a familiar door. Image created using artificial intelligence for illustration purposes only.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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