Recommendations
- All alarm pulls in residents’ toilets should be free hanging and extended to just above floor length.
- Replace residents’ white toilet seats and riser seats with coloured ones that contrast with the white frames and toilets. These would be dementia friendly.
- Replace white grab rails and bars in toilets and bathrooms with coloured ones to make them more visible and dementia friendly.
- To increase visibility, corridor handrails should be painted in clearly contrasting colours.
- Check that clocks are working and accessible to all.
- To ease access for residents with dementia, main activities timetables should show activities for the current day only.
- Written activity timetables, recently introduced by head office, are not dementia friendly.
- Have separate notice boards for different types of information e.g. policies and procedures separate from information for relatives.
