Grimsby Hospital gains machine to support dementia patients

Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby has acquired a brand new machine that their dementia sufferers can work together with to assist them recall and share recollections of previous occasions.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Basis Belief’s official charity, The Well being Tree Basis, acquired a donation of greater than £8,000 from Cleethorpes Golf Membership.

The cash will probably be used to buy a Memory Interactive Remedy Actions (RITA) machine which will probably be put in on the Grimsby hospital.

The machine is designed to assist sufferers with dementia recall occasions from their previous, which is especially helpful to these with reminiscence impairments. It makes use of a variety of interactive actions to spice up cognitive stimulation and assist sufferers share their recollections and spark dialog.

Emily Woods, dementia scientific nurse specialist, stated: “The RITA machines are implausible as they can be utilized for cognitive stimulation. It helps preserve sufferers stimulated and creates dialog. We do use them for our weak sufferers however different sufferers can even use them too.”

RITA’s actions embody listening to music, watching information experiences, listening to wartime speeches, enjoying video games and karaoke, searching the web, viewing previous maps and images, making video calls and watching movies.

The cash was raised over the course of a yr, with Cleethorpes Golf Membership organising a variety of occasions for members, guests and supporters.

John Gale, former males’s captain of the membership, stated: “I misplaced my mum to vascular dementia a couple of years in the past, so I needed to present one thing again to assist help these sufferers.

“She had the situation for greater than eight years. I selected HTF to boost cash for and I wish to say a giant thanks to everybody that has helped us attain our whole.”

As soon as the belief has bought the RITA machine it can put the remaining funds in the direction of making the hospital wards extra dementia-friendly.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Basis Belief additionally intends to buy extra RITA machines that will probably be deployed throughout the belief’s websites.

Initially of this yr, digital well being app firm Memory Lane Games launched a new clinical pilot study with Hospice Isle of Man’s Scholl Academic Centre to review the affect of digital memory actions on sufferers with dementia.