The leading provider of Memory Care Products
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The Journey Started… The journey started for find© with a request to produce some signage which would be easily understood by people with dementia. That was a long time ago and now we have a whole range of products and strategies which contribute to helping people have healthier and happier lives. We work closely with leading health professionals, universities and the people who use our products, to ensure that we design and produce innovative solutions that transform the environment for people with dementia and cognitive disabilities. As our approach to product design has become widely validated we are now creating adaptations of our designs to make them appropriate for people with cognitive issues associated with learning difficulties and autism. We are the Worlds leading manufacturer and our commitment to delivering life-changing solutions couldn’t be greater. find© is an established provider to hospitals and carehomes in the UK and we’re now developing our networks in America, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands.
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What Do People Say About Our Products? What a difference a cup makes… We have worked with find© to improve the acute care environment for people with dementia in hospital. The signs, blue toilet seats and blue handrails have all been integrated within our wards that care for people with dementia. Using the colour contrasting and signs for way finding especially to the toilet areas has made a big difference to our patients in terms of their dignity and safety.
A lady with dementia would not drink her water and would only drink her tea or coffee, which was being given to her in a blue cup. One day whilst talking to another patient I saw her at the sink washing the blue cup out. I was surprised because this lady did not usually initiate tasks. When I returned from taking a patient to the bathroom I saw the lady filling up the blue cup with water from her jug and then begin to drink it. I informed the nurse in charge and we made a plan to leave her with a blue cup for her water as well as her hot drinks. Since then she is drinking really well and independently.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Providing a memory box for Joan empowered her to become independent again, smiling and enjoying life as she was no longer anxious, frightened or angry because Joan could identify her bedroom as home again. The memory box provided her with dignity and well being.
Health Care Support Worker on Elderly Care Ward As a nurse specialist for the Gold Standards Framework I called onto the Medical Assessment Unit to see a patient, this lady was asking for a cup of tea, the Support Worker had advised the tea lady to give her it in a feeder cup. I gave the lady the feeder cup but she was clearly struggling. She did not seem to be able to comprehend the concept of a feeder cup. She stated it was a ‘funny cup’. I am also a dementia training facilitator and from my experience, I thought she might be better with a blue cup. I got her a blue cup and found that the lady not only managed to drink her tea independently but she enjoyed it. I feel that if the cup had not been changed she would not have drunk her mid morning cup of tea.
Abbeyfield Dementia Care Home I can confirm that the new crockery has been a success for all 3 of the homes who purchased it. One quote I got back from a carer was “Mrs P for the first time in several weeks ate everything on her plate”. Plates don’t slip around like they used to and the broad rim helps the person to hold on to the plate much easier. The beakers have proved very useful especially with residents that have to take liquid through a straw, the lid to the beaker with the hole in is perfect. On another plus side we are about to buy some washing up bowls so that those residents that want to help can, especially as this crockery is indestructible!
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Signage Signage is clearly at the heart of what we do. As designers of the world’s first dementia specific signs, we have led the way in providing simple but effective solutions, which have improved the lives of thousands of people. find signage has become the industry standard.
Standard bedroom signs
Toliet flag signs
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Brushed silver and gold
As every sign is manufactured to order our clients can: • Specify words and colours • Personalise bedroom signs • Choose from a range of sizes • Utilise chemical cleaners • Fix the signs to any surface
Slider style signs
Hygenus interchangeable
Self-adhesive signs
Please remember that for maximum effectiveness signage should be installed at an optimum height of 1200-1400mm from floor level.
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Finding The Toilet We take finding the toilet for granted but we’ve all experienced the stress and anxiety of needing a toilet and not being able to locate one!
Raised toilet seats
Drop down support bars and Coloured Grab Rails
Support frame and seat
When dementia is involved, the frustrations are multiplied. This results in anxiety, challenging behaviour and sometimes a loss of dignity too. Our solution is all about using highly visible, high contrast colours to establish a clear route to the toilet and, once there, to use the same principles to decipher the environment by making the important things (the toilet, grab rails etc) easier to see. This boosts confidence and independence, as well as helping to maintain or restore dignity.
Premium stainless steel bar hinges 3-way support frame
Premium seat stabilisers
Our strategies have proved highly beneficial to thousands of people by helping them to find and use the toilet independently, maintaining dignity and supporting their independence.
Interchangeable signs
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Finding The Bedroom Our products make the environment much easier to understand. A door-cal is a self-adhesive, waterproof, chemical resistant, laminated, fire-rated, hard wearing colour print which can be applied to a flat door in a few minutes, creating the appearance of a brand new panelled door to someone’s home. Corridor after
To further enhance the door-cal we have a range of accessories including: letterboxes, door knockers and numbers.
We’ve also introduced Windows to the door-cal range. You’d expect to see windows in the street, so we’ve created some attractive, self-adhesive windows which can be easily applied to the wall to create a more realistic, stimulating space.
Window range
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Range of colours or specify your own choice
All the materials we use to make the door-cal come with a Class 0 or equivalent fire rating.
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Through intelligent design we have created a range of crockery, which is attractive and dignified, yet incorporates features that makes food far easier to see and manipulate. These features ensure that food stays warm longer for slower eaters and can be more easily manipulated, with less spillage. This makes for a more dignified and all-round better dining experience, supporting all the benefits of better nutrition and hydration, along with the social aspects of less stressful, more enjoyable mealtimes. By supporting improved eating and drinking, food wastage is minimised, people are significantly healthier and happier and the cost and time involved in direct care is reduced. Our dining range is dishwasher safe.
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Clocks The find© Calendar Clock is a large 17”x17” square face with a clear analogue dial and the month, date and day displayed in a logical way. Importantly there is no reference to the year. Everything is clear and easy to read and ideal for hospitals and communal area’s. CQC recommend the use of dementia friendly
The Day Clock
clocks to reduce stress levels and aid orientation. Ideally, all patients should also have sight of a clock from their bed.
Our Day/Night Clocks support people having issues with circadian rhythms by simply displaying the time as well as whether it is day or night. The clock face design is simple, traditional and clear and won’t look out of place in any home or care setting. Our latest addition, The Day Clock has been developed by Bath Institute of Medical Engineering and is designed to help people living with Dementia. The design features a simple and clear display showing the time of day as either morning, afternoon, evening or night. The Dementia Day Clock is ideal as people living with dementia as they can lose the ability to distinguish between day or night. The Alzheimer’s Day Clock can therefore assist primary carers maintain daily routines.
Day / Night Clock
Orientation Boards all come with clocks included. These boards can convey a lot more information than a clock alone and can prove invaluable in helping to organise someone’s day with a minimum of stress.
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Calendar Clock
The Day Clock (reverse)
Personal Orientation Board
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Approved Boards Ward and bed boards
Hard Truths - The Journey to Putting Patients First is the Government’s response to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry and includes recommendations for changing the culture of the NHS, promoting a transparent approach to providing care and working with patients. There is specific mention of hospital boards and the importance of them paying close attention to the culture of the organisation, actively dealing with risks and seeking improvements.
The ward board also includes spaces for key staff names and photographs. A full range of magnets are available for use with both boards, including forget me not, nil by mouth, falls and special dietary requirements.
In view of this report, we have worked with Wythenshawe Hospital, and developed two new boards, which will support continuous improvement and provide the information to all patients and visitors in an open, honest and transparent manner.
find© are also the official suppliers of The Butterfly Scheme products – available to scheme members only.
• Ward board size: 920 x 595mm • Bed board size: 600 x 412mm • Accepts magnets • Heavy usage dry wipe finish • Manufactured to meet infection control standards • Bespoke information can be included on the boards
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Visual Communication Boards All of our boards are designed to improve communication. They are robust with a non reflective surface and secure hidden fixings.
Personal Orientation Board
Our boards have dry wipe areas for occasions when information needs to be updated quickly.
Communal Orientation Board
For menu boards we can also create pictorial menus. We have a library of popular food images or you can provide us with your own pictures and we’ll turn them into easy to clean use plastic cards. For your less mobile diners, we can turn your pictures into a compact folder of all your food options. If you’d like to personalise your menu board, we can supply it with a background colour, title or logo of your choice at no extra charge. Activity boards broadcast up and coming events and the Pain Assessment Chart is a simple tool to communicate the location and severity of pain when speaking is difficult.
Menu Cards and Folder
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Drywipe Menu Board also available with pockets
Pain Assessment Chart
Weekly Activity Board
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Memory Boxes
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Memory boxes are a great way of improving orientation and encouraging communication and are most effective when filled with a variety of items that are readily recognised and meaningful to their owner. A thoughtfully assembled Memory Box serves as a highly effective orientation tool for the owner and as a brilliant information resource for carers, enabling them to interact more easily.
• Memory Boxes available in: Oak, Cherry and Beech finishes • External measurements: (h) 400 x (w) 300 x (d) 60mm
Cherry finish
Oak finish
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Reminiscence Pictures We have thousands of images to choose from. The use of good quality, era-specific images cannot be underestimated. They provide a great opportunity to create a stimulating and relevant environment and our portfolio of images is second to none for quality, choice and relevance. Our range has been selected to; • Stimulate reminiscence • Prompt conversation • Provide reliable landmarks Our images can be supplied; • Framed with non-reflective plastic-glass • Museum Style on 12mm MDF • Stretched Canvas prints All three have non-reflective finishes. Our images are catalogued in a range of relevant themes including food, royalty, holidays, transport and fashion. We also provide location-specific images from the unique Francis Frith Photography Collection of virtually every town and village in the UK.
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findŠ - In The Garden
“I fully recommend the instaplanta system� Christine Walkden
Horticulturalist & BBC TV Gardening presenter
Gardening is an activity which is deeply rewarding and can be undertaken by all ages and abilities. The Instaplanta range has both indoor and outdoor products and is based around 300 x 300mm pods which can be removed from the Instaplanta unit to be worked on individually or taken indoors for complete convenience and all year round use.
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Lighting
Quality of lighting affects everything we do. It affects our moods, appetite, activity levels and our general health. The lighting solutions we provide can reduce energy costs by as much as 80% and provide 50,000 hours of lighting, that’s 6 years of use, 24 hours a day. “Good lighting in buildings can help people to see what is around them, use landmarks to navigate, identify signs and spaces, see others’ faces and participate in activities. Poor lighting can increase anxiety and may lead to trip and fall accidents if people cannot make sense of what is ahead of them.” Stirling University DSDC Please contact us to discuss your lighting requirements.
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Corporate Signage If you’re considering re-branding, updating, or you’ve decided you want better signage for your establishment, you need to talk to us. Some of the biggest organisations in the care sector rely on find© to provide their external signs as we have a wealth of experience in designing signage that creates the right first impression. Whether you want a bespoke sign or a national re-brand, we’re fully equipped to provide the design, products and installation service.
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The leading provider of Memory Care Products
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Burley Hill Trading Estate Burley Road, Leeds LS4 2PU Tel: 0113 230 2046 Fax: 0113 224 2046 Email: sales@findsignage.co.uk
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