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TAD Podcast Innovation Spotlight on Life Stories Initiative

OMi’s Life Stories Initiative is featured in the Innovation Spotlight of the latest episode of The Future of Care for Dementia and an Aging Population podcast by Third Age Design.

Life Stories Initiative Innovation Spotlight TAD Podcast

 

This month the Third Age Design Podcast was recorded live from the Care Show 2021 in Birmingham, and discusses issues including the impact of environment on staffing, care integration into the community and significant technological innovations in dementia support.

The Innovation spotlight this month looks at the personalised Life Stories experience available on the omiVista Mobii interactive sensory projector. Offering stimulating and beneficial person centred care by providing an interactive experience based around significant and meaningful images and music, to help connect people with dementia to staff, family and other residents.
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residents enjoying interactive sensory games and activities

1000th Mobii 2 delivered into UK care

Carey Lodge, Fremantle Trust

Carey Lodge in Leighton Buzzard Buckinghamshire provides specialist residential care for older people, including those living with dementia, in a safe and welcoming environment. Each person has a personal support plan and has their Bradford Well-being Profile regularly assessed.

Having successfully fund-raised for a Mobii magic surface, interactive floor and table projector  Sue Faulkner, Community & Lifestyle Manager for Fremantle, looked forward to sharing it with the residents of Carey Lodge.

From the very first moment the Mobii was turned on she says;

‘I was absolutely amazed at how active and involved they became. It’s been wonderful to see them all engrossed laughing and chatting amongst themselves. When we [projected] the coral reef with fish onto the floor they all began to dip their feet in with one resident exclaiming; ‘Wow it’s like I’m paddling in the sea how wonderful’ and another joined in ‘it reminds me of my holiday by the sea…listen to the water, we can see the fish, I used to have a fish like that one’.

Throwing the bean bags into the puddles of paint on the floor to ‘splash’ them has been another favourite. ’I love this game’ said one of our ladies. They are often disappointed when the session ends for lunch!

Over the weeks we have seen all nine residents Well-being Profile’s improve, with a few residents showing a marked change in their outlook. Dot has thoroughly enjoyed participating in the sessions, concentrating for far longer then she has ever before and more importantly showing enjoyment from interaction with her fellow residents. When Anne takes part in the games she is more able to articulate how she feels and clearly enjoys the sense of community that arises from coming together with others.

carey lodge residents enjoying sensory table top painting activities

Over the weeks we have seen all nine residents Well-being Profile’s improve, with a few residents showing a marked change in their outlook.

There have been some other very special moments too. We have an older gentleman who we’ve struggled to reach who was also no longer communicating with his son when he visited. His son mentioned he used to have a passion for aircraft so we encouraged him over to the Mobii magic surface table and chose the ‘Spitfire’ app. As soon as he moved his fingers he could hear the sound of a spitfire in the distance, we encouraged him to scatter the virtual clouds out of the way and the spitfire got louder and slowly came into view. Seeing him motivated to move and then hearing him say ‘plane’ with a big smile as he pointed at it was just so emotional for all of us. The combination of hearing the distinct sounds of the spitfire, then having to scatter the clouds out of the way to see it seemed to revitalise him for a while. Those precious moments of re-connection with his son were invaluable, we were all emotional wrecks!

We are so pleased with the contribution the Mobii magic surface has made to Carey Lodge already, inspiring group participation and bringing real therapeutic benefits. We are excited to create our own apps using resident’s photos, paintings and music as a way of personalising the system and aiding reminiscence by helping them to connect with positive memories.’

Sue Faulkner, Community & Lifestyle Manager, Fremantle Trust

The Green, Cornwall Care

The Green is a care home in Redruth for people with residential, dementia and mental health needs run by Cornwall care.

The Mobii magic table is amazing, it’s so good for co-ordination, reminiscence and such a great social tool. The response we have had from our residents has been fantastic.

Sam Tatum, Care Manager of The Green is already overwhelmed by the feedback she’s received from residents and staff using the Mobii “magic table” interactive sensory projector system:
“We look after people with complex dementia and mental health needs so to see them actively using the system and working together is so heart-warming. The Mobii magic table is amazing, it’s so good for co-ordination, reminiscence and such a great social tool. The response we have had from our residents has been fantastic and to see them enjoying it together has made me quite emotional.”

The Green In Redruth, Cornwall Care,

She also highlighted the advantages of the Mobii being a truly mobile system as some of their residents are nursed in their bedrooms.

‘‘It’s fabulous that we can project directly onto their beds so they can enjoy the music and colourful scenes and sounds from nature. There is such a huge variety of physical and social experiences including painting, quizzes and agility/coordination games with beanbags, batons, brushes and balls.
Our staff are also looking forward to personalising the Mobii system by creating reminiscence activities using old and new photos of Redruth, to use with the painting effect, to help residents share memories.’’

‘‘It’s fabulous that we can project directly onto their beds so they can enjoy the music and colourful scenes and sounds from nature.

Anne Thomas, chief executive of Cornwall Care, a not-for-profit charity, said: “We are delighted that our residents at The Green are already gaining so much from this wonderful technology. Supporting people to have meaningful and stimulating interaction is an important part of what we do and we will continue to embrace new ways of enriching the lives and experiences of everyone in our care.”

Cornwall Care is now planning to raise funds to install more Mobii magic table systems in their care homes across the county.


Find out more about The Green in Redruth a care home for people needing residential care, dementia care and those with mental health needs.

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Request a free personalized demo of the Mobii or other omiVista system in your care home, or live online and discover how our interactive sensory activities improve the quality of lives of people in care and living with dementia.

sunrise of eastbourne using thier mobii magic table sensory activities

Sunrise Eastbourne, Sunrise Senior Living

sunrise of eastbourne using thier mobii magic table sensory activities

Case Study: Sunrise Senior Living Eastbourne

It doesn’t sound like a huge thing but to give anyone a reason to interact in a physical and sensory way is widening their daily experience and enabling us to have an insight into the person behind the dementia. That’s pretty special.

Sunrise Senior Living in Eastbourne provides high quality personalised nursing, dementia care and assisted living.

They bought a Mobii “magic table” interactive sensory projector for floors and table over a year ago for use in their Memory Care neighbourhood, where they are dedicated to providing enriched person-centred care.

Sunrise residential care in Eastbourne

Nancy Walford, the Reminiscence Coordinator ( now Deputy Manager) talks about the effects the Mobii sensory activities has had on one particular Sunrise resident living with dementia:

‘One of the ladies we care for is quite insular within her world, she rarely opens her eyes and interacts, but since we’ve had the Mobii magic surface we have found a means to connect with her, it really has opened up her world. Now she will open her eyes and engage with the pictures on the table, she particularly enjoys participating in the nature ‘wipe’ activities.

Prior to the sensory table we have had little insight into how much she understands and processes, this new knowledge allows us to tailor more activities around her needs.

Although she is unable to communicate verbally, she is able to feedback her enjoyment by reaching forward to colour in certain images, this tells us she is seeing the picture and understanding there is something to colour like a bird or a landscape. The Mobii magic table is clearly giving her the motivation to stretch and interact with her environment and by repeating this action we know she is actively enjoying the process. Prior to the table we have had little insight into how much she understands and processes, this new knowledge allows us to tailor more activities around her needs. The table also provides her with a sense of achievement, her movements are changing the picture and she can see the product of her interactions and feel accomplished.

The Mobii magic surface has also increased her upper body mobility by giving her a reason to sit forward and outstretch her arm, it doesn’t sound like a huge thing but to give anyone a reason to interact in a physical and sensory way is widening their daily experience and enabling us to have an insight into the person behind the dementia. That’s pretty special.’

Nancy Walford

Deputy Manager, Sunrise Senior Living, Eastbourne

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See the Mobii in action

Request a free personalized demo of the Mobii or other omiVista system in your care home, or live online and discover how our interactive sensory activities improve the quality of lives of people in care and living with dementia.

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