Door Decals Guide Dementia Patients Home

[Omaha Steve]

Most of you know I have FTD (dementia). So far I'm doing alright at home while Marta works.

OS

BY ELIZABETH NELSON

Kelly Pettus, the facility manager at Mt. Cartier Court, a long-term dementia care home in Revelstoke, B.C., was searching online for ways to make doors look like bookshelves to keep dementia patients from wandering outside without supervision when she ran across a solution to another problem she hadn’t realized was even an issue.

True Doors, which Pettus found on Pinterest, is a Dutch company started by an art student who wanted to add a creative flair to her apartment door. So she invented a door decal that goes on a plain flat door and gives the photographic appearance of a more decorative door.

When Pettus found True Doors, she knew she was onto something. It’s so easy to get lost in a big building where all the doors are the same color, even for people who don’t have memory problems. How much more difficult this life of identical doors must be for the patients!



“All of our doors are the same, so it makes sense — how can you expect someone living with dementia to differentiate one beige door from the next beige door?” mused Pettus.

Pettus brought up the idea to put up a different door decal for each patient’s door, enabling them to remember how to “get home” to their rooms and avoid becoming disoriented.

FULL story: https://blog.thealzheimerssite.greatergood.com/door-decals/

[tblue37]

1. Cool. K&R. nt

[Ilsa]

2. There all kinds of fun decals that

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can be applied to doors:

Harry Potter




https://rfathead-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/q_auto/c_pad,h_900/g_north,c_crop,h_900,w_900/c_pad,h_900,w_900/room/22-20963_nba_reggie_jackson_2017_2018_realbig_rm39_pdp.jpg

Star wars!

[Kind of Blue]

4. WOW!

[AllaN01Bear]

21. id prolly go thru the second door and bang, give myself a shiner.

[Ilsa]

23. Oh, yeah. Some decals are

Very realistic pictures of passageways. I'd probably be moving way too fast and try to run through the "hallway."

[AllaN01Bear]

27. just dont put one with a fake tunnel, ghad if the roadrunner came out, i quit.

[blaze]

3. What a great idea

The True Door website shows all the current designs. But you can also have a panel custom made to look like any door you like.

https://my.truedoors.com/collection/

[mopinko]

5. how great would it be to have the door of your last home?

seems like something that is not hard to do, and w the selection they have, many would already be available.
i would sure let someone take a pic of my door if the last owner wanted one for any reason. but i'm nice that way.

[a kennedy]

6. It's a fantastic idea.....I'm sure they get to pick the design??

[Wounded Bear]

7. Seems like virtually any image could be used...

Great idea!

[Ligyron]

8. I wonder if we could change Trump's around so he'd enter the Twilight Zone?

Worth a shot, right?

[Totally Tunsie]

19. He's not already there?

[cp]

9. What a great idea!

Thanks, Omaha Steve, for posting this.

[moreland01]

10. Hey Omaha Steve . . .

My Mom's at Emmanuel Terrace on 72nd Street in Omaha. Thanks for the video. I'm sure my Mom would LOVE this. Not sure about Emmanuel Terrace. Wonder how hard it is to remove it when the residents "move on".

[Totally Tunsie]

16. I'd bet they could be made like the "Fatheads" that are applied to walls

and are easily removable. When my son's family moved, so did their Disney characters. Many styles from which to choose.





https://www.fathead.com/

https://support.fathead.com/hc/en-us/articles/217320867-Removing-your-Fathead-Decal

[Omaha Steve]

24. I know where she is

Tell her I said hi.

[Duppers]

11. Excellent idea!

Nursing homes across the country should try this idea.

[pansypoo53219]

12. i do estate sales at a nearby assisted living home. each 'apartment has some decoration

near the door or on the door to give each a diff look. they also have art posters on the walls.

[FM123]

13. Such a great idea, helpful to lots of folks!

[0rganism]

15. maybe we donate a few to the whitehouse?

was thinking, perhaps some of Trump's assholery is due to spatial disorientation.

then again, that motherfucker can afford his own door decals.

[FM123]

22. Sure - but we might have to label them in Russian....

[kimbutgar]

14. I was just at a convention of the National association of senior move managers

At one of the meetings I attended they talked about making doors of dementia patients more distinctive. This is a wonderful idea that I plan to suggest in the future.

[handmade34]

17. excellent...

I put special decorations on my dad's door to help, but this idea is awesome...

[LisaM]

18. It's not just a good idea; many of these are very attractive (well, all the ones I saw).

That's a double win.

[AllaN01Bear]

20. indeed:)

[rpannier]

25. That is a really interesting idea

I think it's great

[3catwoman3]

26. So convincing in appearance.

Superb idea.

[mercuryblues]

28. Do they have one that looks like the Tardis?