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Princess Royal opens new outreach centre in Trowbridge
The Princess Royal has opened a new centre to support people with terminal illnesses in Wiltshire.
The new centre offers one-to-one and group rooms, a creative studio, treatment rooms and a cafeThe Dorothy House outreach facility in Trowbridge was launched in August and provides a drop-in service for carers and their families as well as patients.
It is the first of two centres planned this year, with another due to open in Somerset at the end of 2012.
Wayne De Leeuw, the centre manager, said it was hoped the centre would “provide more care to more people.”
Dementia home builds 1950s street to help residents feel at home
Residents can even relive fond memories of their youth by reading newspapers and magazines from the period.
Carers have built a 50s street so dementia patients feel at home.
The Memory Lane features an old fashioned post office, greengrocers, phone box, pub, ration books and old tobacco tins.
Residents can even relive fond memories of their youth by reading newspapers and magazines from the period, detailing the Queen’s Coronation.
They are also able to peruse 1950s products in the Greengrocers, use the original weighing scales and choose fresh handmade cakes from the window.
