British hospitals are having a dementia-friendly makeover
Simple changes can have big benefits for patients with dementia
THE three inpatient wards that take up the ninth floor of St Thomas’ Hospital in London look like children’s quarters. The walls and doors are brightly coloured. Large pictures of showers and toilet bowls on some doors make it easy to guess what is behind. There are hardly any written signs. Instead, giant arrows matching each room’s colour point the way.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Colour me happy”
Britain September 15th 2018
- The unlikely survival of May’s Chequers plan for Brexit
- Boris Johnson’s bid for the Tory leadership
- Labour launches a worker-ownership plan
- Britain’s electoral system favours not Labour but the Conservatives
- Rebuilding British higher education’s most unusual institution
- Councils in England and Wales hatch their own solutions to prostitution
- British hospitals are having a dementia-friendly makeover
- A hunger for new thought
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