News from around the Southland includes items from Homewood, Flossmoor, Lockport, Frankfort, Park Forest, Oak Lawn, and Palos ...

Each space provides a calming, supportive environment featuring a number of sensory tools like weighted lap pads, massage ...

Owensboro's Chautauqua Health and Rehabilitation is focusing its Alzheimer's care on women, after upgrading the left wing of ...

(WEHT) — Ascension St. Vincent celebrates four new pediatric sensory rooms ... spaces will provide a calming environment for patients. The rooms will have weighted blankets, noise-cancelling ...

Ascension St. Vincent celebrates four new pediatric sensory rooms. A ribbon cutting was held at its Center for Children on ...

For example, it can be used to calm a patient who is experiencing dementia-related agitation or behavioural disturbances (it has been suggested that sensory stimulation can improve mood and reduce ...

A recent case involving an aged care nurse mistreating a dementia patient’s therapy doll highlights ... Interacting with the dolls may also act as a form of sensory stimulation, where the ...

patients experience fewer episodes of confusion and anxiety. Visual aids serve as gentle reminders throughout the home. Clear signs or pictures on doors help identify rooms, while simple ...

Staff from a Bamber Bridge care home who are pioneering new ways of treating distressed dementia patients, have been crowned ...