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Dementia home builds 1950s street for residents

Daily Mirror

Posted On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 10:26:54 AM

Carers have built a 1950s street so dementia patients feel at home. The Memory Lane features an old fashioned post office, phone box, pub and old tobacco tins. Residents can relive fond memories of their youth by reading newspapers and magazines from the period, detailing the Queen’s Coronation.

The 80 patients of the institute, can visit Memory Lane and feel at home

They are also able to use 1950s products in the Greengrocers, weighing scales and choose fresh handmade cakes from the window.

Martin McCarthy who runs Grove Care homes in Bristol said: “ One resident with dementia, who has been with us for a year, never went outside. But when she had a look, it was a really great moment.” Paula Shears from the Alzheimer’s Society said: “The street will generate conversation without someone saying, ‘Can you remember this?’”







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