Changing the View

Many long stay patients are dressed and placed in a chair for many hours of the day.

In long stay hospitals they may be by their bed for hours staring into space. 

Whenever possible, ask if your loved ones can be moved to a window, near a television or radio or a day room where something interesting is happening.

My mother is placed in a chair for hours every day and she cannot see out of a window.  I move her every time I arrive, either to watch a film, go for a 'walk' around the hospital or its grounds or to where something more interesting is happening.

Asking permission from the staff, it may be possible to move a long stay patient to a more comfortabla chair. As long as you can supervise them (and the staff agree it's safe), most patients love to have the opportunity to lie back in a comfy chair (without a belt).

Jill