The reminiscence pods, known as RemPods, contain decade-appropriate décor, furnishings, period newspapers and magazines, a television playing recordings of old black and white shows and an old-style radio.
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The RemPods can act as a talking point to help people with dementia.
Patients and visitors to the hospital were first shown a RemPod during national Dementia Awareness Week in May this year, when one was set up in the main corridor.
This demonstration led to Burton’s hospitals’ League of Friends’ decision to buy RemPods for the trust’s three hospital sites – Queen’s, Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, in Lichfield, and the Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital, in Tamworth – and they are due to be delivered next week.
The remaining three will go to the two other hospitals.
Brendan Brown, the trust’s director of nursing, said: “We have been very impressed with the RemPods. They provide so many authentic items from the past to see, touch and interact with, and they act as a starting point for lots of conversations and happy reminiscences.”
A NEW centre designed to reduce pressure in the accident and emergency department was officially opened at the Queen’s Hospital yesterday.
Bosses estimate the acute assessment centre will reduce the amount of people heading to A&E next door by roughly a quarter.
This is because it has been set up to deal with patients who have been referred to the hospital by their GPs, as well as those who arrive in a non-emergency ambulance. They can also come in from A&E.
