Anita Ruckledge,dementia lead nurse at the Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, describes how the new family support rooms at Pinderfields hospital enable families to stay together at times of greatest needIf being in hospital is an anxious and often lonely time for patients and their relatives, and imagine if the patient has cognitive impairment or is at a palliative-care stage of their life. How frightening might this be? How accomplish we make a stay in hospital for those who are most confused and vulnerable less scary,and how accomplish we make the terminate of a life better and kinder both for the person who is dying and those they leave behind?This question was the catalyst that inspired a group of like-minded people at Pinderfields hospital in Wakefield (the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust) to seek at what support they currently provide for their most vulnerable patients and their families.
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Source: theguardian.com