Description
Punch and Judy Stand adds interest and interaction to any care setting
The immediate surroundings can significantly impact your residents’ quality of life. Not only will providing the right environment help to promote meaningful interaction and purposeful activities between your residents and staff. But also an engaging healthcare setting will ensure the overall wellbeing of patients and residents.
In comparison, a bad environment can cause anxiety and stress. Understanding your residents’ beliefs and culture is an essential part to getting the environment right.
How to incorporate a Punch and Judy stand into your care setting:
- Organise a traditional Punch and Judy show
- With buckets and spades in a sand pit, set about making sandcastles in front of the Punch And Judy Stand
- Play “Touring England” and reminisce about past holidays. Or, for the more active, have a game of Ring Toss
- Offer fish and chips for lunch and ice creams for an afternoon snack
- Encourage your residents to talk about days out when they were younger by hold painting classes themed around the seaside
- Create a rummage chest and fill it with shells, pebbles, postcards and souvenirs
- Make coloured sand jars filled with layers of different coloured sands
Specification:
- Size: 820(w)x2040(h)x495(d) mm
- Punch and Judy Stand has a side opening where the puppeteer can enter to put on a show.
(Puppets not included)
Benefits:
- Reliable way-finding landmark
- Adds authenticity to a themed environment
- An interactive point of interest
For people living with dementia, both simplicity and creativity play a role. Altogether, we have proven that providing meaningful destination points, can result in reduced anxiety, increased levels of nutrition and hydration, higher levels of exercise and improved social interaction.
Read More about the importance of dementia friendly activities