The added value of True Doors for residents of care homes
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Improve
True Doors ® decals are person centred care solutions to improve quality of life for elders with dementia, while also transforming cold institutional spaces into warm and familiar homelike environments.
Transform
Residents' identities are brought to the fore. Reminiscence and social interaction is stimulated. People recognise and find their own doors. Privacy and sense of safety increases. Facilities feel more like homes.
Create
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Stories
From nursing staff, family members and people with dementia.
It's a fun and unique kind of door, I'm so happy with it! Yes, I'm very proud of my door.- Els Blom | Resident at Amerpoort in Vinkeveen
I think it's beautiful, it is like having your own front door. In the beginning, it was all white and that gives you the feeling of being in a hospital.. Now everyone likes his own front door the best.- Dhr. Kloppers | Resident at De Wever Woonzorgcentrum de Bijsterstede in Tilburg
A resident told me a story about how her door reminded her of the times her husband went fishing in the past on the Nashwaak River. She used to look out of the car window while her husband was fishing and this is the image she imagines when she looks at the door. I have noticed a huge positive effect with the True Doors.- Amy Sandant Vibert | Nursing Staff at Nashwaak Villa in New Brunswick, Canada
Residents find it easier to walk to their rooms now. There are less questions about "where to go?". They also talk more about their past, for example when they're engaged in a game.- José Gommers | Nurse at Stichting Elisabeth in Breda
I have noticed how pleasurable and refreshing and homely feeling the True Doors have made residents and staff experience I personally felt very thrilled and my breath taken away - a very postivie experience.- Lyn Walhe | Member of staff at Mercy Health Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Victoria, Australia
To add to the feeling of "home", the staff and residents as well as families have all reacted very positively.- Christine Curnow | Member of staff at Mercy Health Mercy Health Bethlehem Home for the Aged in Victoria, Australia
Enquiries
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