At James Paget Hospital

At James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth, volunteers have been using Ad-Memoire on tablets to connect and converse with patients.

Dementia Befriender Rebecca Kennedy shares her first experience of using the resource:

“Ad-Memoire is a fantastic tool for us to use here at the hospital. My first experience of using it with a patient was when I showed this lady an old Persil advert of some children playing in the street. And her reaction was amazing. Her face lit up: ‘Yes I remember doing that. I remember playing in the street like that when I was a girl.’

“And that opened up the conversation and was really wonderful. I wanted to keep using it to get more reactions like that, so the patients could talk about their experiences and memories.”