Birds round a bird table provide hours of gentle entertainment for patients in hospital
Why not ask your local ornithology club, or other groups, in your community to set up bird tables in gardens, or outside windows with no obvious view, to give long term patients something interesting to watch.
Seeing birds feed, play, wash and fight can provide hours of entertainment to patients who feel to ill or weak to read books or watch the television.
Once established, the local ornithology club may well be prepared to maintain it.
It's worth an ask!
Click below for read about a project that has benefitted patients in Myton Hospice
- A room with a view - Surroundings
- Are you sitting comfortably - Physical comfort
- Cleanliness is next to godliness - hygeine
- Food glorious food - Appetising food
- Getting to know you - Communication
- It's childsplay - All about children
- Let me entertain you - Coping with boredom
- Pleased to meet you - The welcome
- Relatively speaking - Relatives and carers
- The waiting game - Waiting rooms
- There's no place like home - Going home
- Trumpet voluntary - All about volunteers
- A death in the family - Empathy and compassion
- Long Term Care - The long and winding road
- Mobility - Getting there