How to have a dementia friendly Christmas. Image shows a dark green artificial tree with lights on. The whole image has a slight blur to it.

How to have a dementia-friendly Christmas

For someone caring for someone with dementia, Christmas can bring on added pressure and issues. It is often forgotten that caring responsibilities can be relentless and exhausting. For the person with dementia, they need familiarity and Christmas brings lots of additional decorations and visitors

Big button phones. Image shows a silver landline telephone with large black buttons on the key pad. The numbers are in white and the corded handset is positioned on the left hand side. At the top of the phone unit are six photographs. These are speed dial buttons for the family or friends who are phoned most frequently.

Big Button Phones

Big Button phones are ideal for anyone with impaired sight or dexterity issues. They provide a spacious, easy press keyboard and the facility to store favourite numbers.

Dementia Diagnosis. Image shows a blue jigsaw puzzle with two missing pieces in the centre. These are white. Above the puzzle is a persons hands holding a mobile phone. The phone screen is also blue and there is a white magnifying glass shown. Searching for the missing pieces.

Dementia Diagnosis and Treatment

Years of painstaking studies have delivered gains in the understanding of dementia.This has laid the foundation for a revolution in earlier diagnosis and effective treatment of the disease. This is a cause for hope for millions in the future

Mobii Interactive Systems. Image shows an OM interactive system projecting the image of a lamb onto the table. It is a Springtime image signified by a daffodil boarder to the lamb.

Mobii Interactive Systems

The Mobii interactive systems provides a perfect way to involve people of all physical and mental abilities in activity. Using motion detecting light beams they project 100’s of different apps onto any light surface.

Digital Display Frame

These frames are also a relaxing alternative to TV and I know several care homes use them to share photos of activities residents have enjoyed. Many of them have the capacity to store thousands of photos in a compact and easy to view way.