A box that has it all: Klinikum Freising well equipped with work materials for demented patients

Created: 12/28/2021, 8:00 AM

Presenting the new boxes for demented patients: Nursing scientist Andrea Peper (left) and nurse Waltraud Allebrodt.

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The Freising Clinic is expanding its range of advice and support for demented patients.

This also includes a box with various work materials.

Freising

- there are already 1.6 million people with dementia in Germany - and the trend is rising.

Their care in hospitals requires time and care;

Nursing staff and relatives need professional assistance.

The Freising Clinic is therefore gradually expanding its range of advice and information for everyone involved.

There is now a very special box for demented patients.

Adequate care

Hospital spokesman Sascha Alexander explains: “A hospital stay is very stressful for people with dementia due to the unfamiliar environment and difficult communication.

Nursing staff also often feel overwhelmed and insecure when it comes to care, relatives worry about adequate care. ”If you also consider the demographic development with more and more old and demented patients in the coming years,“ it becomes clear how important it is that everyone involved in the medical and nursing care of demented patients work closely together, ”says Alexander.

Important orientation

The Freising Clinic has therefore been offering regular training courses for employees since 2018, organized by the specially trained geriatric psychiatric specialist and nurse Waltraud Allebrodt. In addition, a standard for building relationships in the care of people with dementia in the home has recently been established. Such specifications not only offer professional and personal orientation for employees, but are also important for hospital certification. Their presence and implementation are regularly checked as part of quality management during internal audits. “In perspective, the goal should also be that there is a dementia officer on every ward,” claims Allebrodt. It would also be desirableif there were more qualified gerontological psychiatric specialists in the hospitals, because up to now such specialists are few and far between.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

Other activities

Together with Andrea Peper, nursing scientist at the Freising Clinic, and with the support of clinic spokesman Sascha Alexander, further activities have been initiated at the Freising Clinic in recent months.

Public lectures and discussions took place and the clinic has joined the “Local Alliance for People with Dementia” initiated by the District Office.

The alliance is committed to better private care for those affected in the district.

In addition, there has recently been a box on every clinic ward, which contains books, games, puzzles and painting utensils, among other things.

Nursing staff can offer patients materials specially developed for people with dementia in order to keep them occupied and mentally activated.