Reaching out to people with dementia and to anyone needing memory support
The Butterfly Scheme provides a system of hospital care for people living with dementia or who simply find that their memory isn’t as reliable as it used to be; memory impairment can make hospitalisation distressing, but it needn’t be. In hospital, dozens of staff can pass through a patient’s life each day and in order to deliver appropriate care, they need to know that a patient has dementia or memory impairment and
how to support them; this is where the Butterfly Scheme comes in. The Butterfly Scheme has now been adopted by nearly two hundred hospitals and healthcare teams across the UK and Ireland. Hospital and healthcare staff really do want to care well and they typically enjoy using the skills and systems provided by the Butterfly Scheme, enabling them to care appropriately for this patient group – including working in partnership with carers.
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April 2025
I was intrigued this month to discover that the Butterfly Scheme now appeared on the syllabus of at least one national exam board, for various Health and Social Care […]
March 2025
Another month when anguished carers have emailed me, because their relatives are in hospitals where staff aren’t showing any insight into the care of people living with dementia. Whenever […]
February 2025
It’s quite typical for the Butterfly Scheme adoption process to be triggered after a senior dementia care team member from one member hospital moves to another hospital and wants […]