Dolls
- Thread starter valmo
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A couple of threads you might like to read,
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/show...&p=1186983&highlight=doll+therapy#post1186983
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/show...&p=1072094&highlight=doll+therapy#post1072094
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/show...&p=1186983&highlight=doll+therapy#post1186983
http://forum.alzheimers.org.uk/show...&p=1072094&highlight=doll+therapy#post1072094
I've seen it in action many times in care homes and it has been a great success with some people - sometimes carried, sometimes in a pram but always a smile on the person's face! Soft cuddly toys sometimes work too.
Thanks. it is as I thought. Apossible good idea depending on the person I suppose.
Thanks. I am going to try. Need to find a doll, charity shop? Problem my siblings will think I am infantalising Mum, not really understanding. If a doll will give mum pleasure.......
i thought that at first, until I watched closely and saw the pleasure and stimulation it gives! Yes a charity shop or just ask some friends - someone will probably have a doll in the loft - good idea to try a couple and if they have clothes to take on and off then they are even better!!
There are several in my husband's nursing home. They are special ones made for such use though they are really odd looking. The residents love them, even the men when handed one will hold it as they would a baby. Cuddly toys are also liked. I knitted a brightly coloured caterpillar to hold in his left hand as his fingers have started to curl into his palm and it stops his hand closing all together.
I will take a photo of the dolls they use and post it
I will take a photo of the dolls they use and post it
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Here is one of the dolls, scary isn't she.
As scary as she is the residents leave them alone.
As scary as she is the residents leave them alone.
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The caterpillar is fantastic! Personally I have never liked dolls, I prefer teddy bears, and I was a tomboy and played with cars and Lego instead of dolls, but they have a few dolls at OH's day centre, and he once came home with one of them firmly in his grasp! I had to trick him to let go of it.
I have since knitted dozens of them and the staff have bought them and the funds put into the residents funds. I have two in hand to replace my husband's present one as it is well washed and looking very floppy.
I loved caterpillar idea.
My mom has 2 teddy bear. CH manager has strong prejudice against doll, but said nothing about a teddy bear.
They have recently introduced a big basket of soft teddy bears at my mum's care home, and I have seen one of the residents holding and chatting away to a baby doll. It isn't something my mum seems to want to do, but I can see why many would find it comforting.
