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Care Home Residents Receive State-Of-The-Art Equipment
Residents at HICA’s Raleigh Court care home in Hull are now benefiting from state-of-the-art equipment designed to stimulate their senses.
The Vecta multi-sensory station can be moved from room to room, enabling residents to see and touch vivid moving colours in fibre optic cables, and also watch columns of colourful balls rise and fall.
Staff at the care home, on Cambridge Street, Anlaby Road, can also project rotating images onto walls to display calming scenes or photos from bygone years to help residents recall their past.
Raleigh Court staff raised over £2,200 through a series of activities so that they could buy the specialist equipment for the home, which accommodates up to 56 elderly people.
Lisa Allison, Deputy Manager at Raleigh Court, said: “The equipment is really benefiting the residents and, because it is mobile, it can also be moved into their rooms.”
“One resident who rarely talks saw the colourful lights, lifted her head and told us how lovely they were. Another, who has difficulty sleeping, soon fell asleep as she watched the bubble columns,” she added.
Pictured here: Raleigh Court resident Marjorie Beanland uses the new equipment, watched by Deputy Manager Lisa Allison.