Yesterday, I spent a lot of the day in the Care for the Elderly Ward 5 Dayroom, as we ‘dressed’ the room, ensuring we created a ‘homely’, non-clinical and inviting space for patients and their families.
Elderly patients can decondition within 24 hours
In our short video clip below, Catherine Theron (Head of Nursing at Princess of Wales Hospital), describes the need for the Care for the Elderly (COTE) patients, who come into hospital with a multitude of conditions.
The ward teams are aiming to prevent their patients from deconditioning to be able to get them back to their own homes to be doing what they normally do, as soon as is possible.
It is important to create space for them where they can ‘be’.
“With our elderly patients they decondition within 24 hours” says Catherine. “They often retract into themselves because they have a bed and a chair; they don’t have a lounge, they don’t have somewhere they can sit and watch TV, they are not really able to use devices very often. It is important to create space for them where they can ‘be’.
Daring to Dream’s work with Princess of Wales Care for the Elderly
Catherine continues to say, “This is the work we have been doing with Daring to Dream, to create dayrooms where patients can go and be with their families, their relatives, watch TV, do activities, and listen to music that isn’t by a hospital bed.”
Help us continue to make a difference with regular live music
Please go to www.daringtodream.wales and donate to support our much needed and joyous live musical afternoons at Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.
Thank you
To the staff at Princess of Wales Hospital, for keeping the faith, against so many challenges, the Lions Club of Bridgend, Moondance Foundation and to Bridgend Camera Club.
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