1. Compare today to the 1950s (both in the UK and in the your country) with the following criteria:
Music
TV shows
Clothes
Cars
Restaurants
Telephones
2. What types of buildings do hospitals use in your country/the UK? Have you used one recently?
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3. What is your reaction? The hospital settings are nice, but is hospital the best place for dementia sufferers?
4. Do you agree with the following?
a) The 1950 decor is only appropriate for today's seniors - future patients will need makeovers that are related to the 60s/70s etc.
b) Children's hospitals are child-friendly (i.e. age-group friendly). There is nothing new here with these makeovers.
c) Patient/condition-friendly hospitals/wards should be the standard whatever the illness.
d) Dementia is an umbrella term that covers many conditions that affect the brain. The effectiveness of these latest measures suggest that the brain is capable of 'self-repair', whatever the condition.
e) Triggering patients' memories could be beneficial in treating other diseases.
5. What is the ambience of a typical hospital in your country like? Are there any that are designed in a way that puts patients at ease?
6. What features would/should a reassuringly familiar hospital/ward have in your country?
7. Do your health authorities have any different ways of dealing with dementia?
8. (God forbid) You wake up in hospital. What one hospital feature would give you a boost; what one hospital feature would likely cause you to relapse?
9. How quickly do you adjust to your surroundings? When you are in a different city/country do you do anything that reminds you of home/more familiar circumstances?
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Situation
You are the CEO of a company that makes nostalgic decor suitable for hospital settings. It's still a relatively new phenomenon in Rubovia. Explain to the head of the Rubovian health service why he should incorporate dementia-friendly makeovers.
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Discuss quotes
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust
“I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.”
― Kris Kristofferson
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
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