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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September 2024
Another anguished email this month from a family carer desperately asking for a means of getting appropriate dementia care for her mother, who was in a non-member hospital. The […]
August 2024
This month, there’s been a lot of discussion of a new dementia-slowing drug which has been licenced, but isn’t at the moment to be made available on the NHS. […]
July 2024
For me, one of the most powerful methods of communication with Butterfly Scheme Leads is a simple phone call or videocall – a proper chat (ideally with a hot […]