Just thought you might be interested to learn that I met the Princess Royal today. I was invited to meet her when she opened a new ‘Smart Lodge’ which is a house that has been fitted out with Assistive Technology, a range of equipment to support people to live independently in their own homes.
The princess was most interested in the Lodge and spent some time with me asking about my husband and the kind of aids that would help him now and in the future.
It was quite informal and the princess put everyone at ease, was obviously well informed and thought it very innovative to use the old Lodge in this way and putting the range of equipment in a homelike setting to make it easier for all to see it in action was a really good idea.
Some of the items that might help my husband are a telephone with spaces for pictures so that instead of dialling a number (which he can no longer do unaided) he just presses the appropriate persons picture, a clock that has day.date,month and time and a locked medicine dispenser that releases medication at the right time and beeps until it is taken.
I was fortunate that the princess stopped to speak to me again at some length about any other support available to carers and I was able to tell her about the complimentary therapies available through the carers group,reflexology, shoulder/head massage, hand massage and chiropody, so Flintshire are doing their best to keep carers healthy!
Myself and the other carer chosen to attend were given lovely baskets of daffodils as a reminder of a lovely day.
Linda
The princess was most interested in the Lodge and spent some time with me asking about my husband and the kind of aids that would help him now and in the future.
It was quite informal and the princess put everyone at ease, was obviously well informed and thought it very innovative to use the old Lodge in this way and putting the range of equipment in a homelike setting to make it easier for all to see it in action was a really good idea.
Some of the items that might help my husband are a telephone with spaces for pictures so that instead of dialling a number (which he can no longer do unaided) he just presses the appropriate persons picture, a clock that has day.date,month and time and a locked medicine dispenser that releases medication at the right time and beeps until it is taken.
I was fortunate that the princess stopped to speak to me again at some length about any other support available to carers and I was able to tell her about the complimentary therapies available through the carers group,reflexology, shoulder/head massage, hand massage and chiropody, so Flintshire are doing their best to keep carers healthy!
Myself and the other carer chosen to attend were given lovely baskets of daffodils as a reminder of a lovely day.
Linda
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