Virgin London Marathon 2012

If you, or anyone you know is luckyenough to receive a place in the London Marathon 2012 please consider joining Team Dementia UK and help us to support people affected by dementia.

For more information please contact Dementia UK via email fundraising@dementiauk.org or call 0207 874 7207.

The finishing line is just around the corner!

Here at Furniture for… we can help you.

 We offer a whole range of products from dining room, lounge and bedroom furniture to competitively priced specialist furniture packages tailored specifically for care homes, nursing homes and dementia homes.

To contact us for a quote please get in touch.

Tel – 0845 618 7738

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Historically we have found that many care homes decide to refurbish and renew their furniture during september-novemeber just in time for a comfortable and fresh Christmas and New Year period.

If you are thinking of replacing your care home furniture please get in contact to discuss your needs and requirements. We offer a personal service taking into account all your needs on a individual basis. We offer a wide range of furniture for a variety of healthcare settings and service users, including bedroom furniture, lounge furniture and dining room furniture. We also offer a range of soft furnishings including carpets and curtains specifically for healthcare environments.  To talk to one of our sales team please call us or email us and we’ll call you back.

Tel: 08456 187738

Email: info@furniture-for.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2011/aug/17/nhs-clearer-thinking-dementia

This article reports that this country’s leaders recognise and appreciate just how important Dementia research and Dementia care is. Nationally,they aim to increase the number of Dementia research experts to head the research and has promised to provide £20 million over 5 years towards this. Additionally they want to make sure there is sufficient access to psychological therapy, counselling and memory clinics. More locally however, the NHS wants to commision dementia care advisors to make contact with sufferers shortly after diagnosis to supply information and advise.

We at Furniture For… supply a range od Dementia specific furniture to increase sufferers quality of life, dignity and self-esteem. For more information please contact us on:

Tel: 08456 187738

Email: info@furniture-for.co.uk

Here at Furniture For… we are always searching for ways in which our furniture can not only provide a useful function, but can also aid someone in their daily living. Research that has found people that suffer from dementia respond positively to furniture with windows to allow vision behind doors, has been encorporated into our available bedroom furniture ranges. We provide wardrobes, chests of drawers and bedsides with windows through which residents can see through. This has been shown to increase residents dignity, self-esteem and quality of life.

For more information on this, or for pricing please don’t hesitate to get in contact.

Tel: 08456 187738

Email: info@furniture-for.co.uk

We at Furniture For… are innovative and forward thinking and always searching for ways to enhance our products. We find that the same item can have a completely different look and use depending on what fabric or combinations of fabric you choose. All of our products are made to order. Therefore, you can have any combination of our healthcare specific fabrics and vinyls and make a bespoke product to suit your taste.

We find that many traditional care homes like rich coloured, patterned fabrics. Whereas homes for the younger generations tend to steer more towards the contemporary clean and crisp look of a cream coloured vinyl. We at Furniture For… have found that mixing fabrics and vinyls together on products creates an ultra high class and personal effect on it’s enironment whilst still being cost-effective and functional.

To discuss how to create a personal and homely look for your environment please don’t hesitate to call or email us.

Tel: 08456 187738

Email: info@furniture-for.co.uk

We have always and will always quote on an individual basis. This allows us to take into account your specific requirements and offer the best pricing possible. If you can supply us with what furniture you are looking for, what setting this will be used in and what quantities of furniture you’ll require this will allow us to offer you the best price and best service we can.

Please call or email us with your request for pricing and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.

Tel: 08456 187738

Email: info@furniture-for.co.uk 

We can supply you with furniture specifically designed for use in a residential setting, in a dementia care setting and a challenging behaviour setting. However our service does not end here. We can also supply curtains, carpets, crockery and other homeware accessories.

We view our website as a window into the kind of products we can offer you. If you need anything for your care home please do get in touch with us to discuss your requirements and we’ll be happy to help.

Tel: 08456 187738

Email: info@furniture-for.co.uk

We have found a very general introduction to correct moving and handling techniques that we thought might be useful for viewers. It’s only three minutes long, but it might save you or a resident from seriously damaging yourselves.

We closely follow recent news and research into the care sector. We have found a lovely article in the Guardian over the weekend that we think the Furniture for… viewers might also enjoy reading. It is a letter from a son to his father who suffers from Alzheimers Disease…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/21/letter-to-dad-with-alzheimers

This isn’t really a letter to you, Dad, because we communicate all the time, even though you can’t talk any more. It’s to everyone who might be touched by Alzheimer’s. We all have our individual experiences, but I find the same notions come up time and again. “It’s a terrible disease,” people say, and so it is. “The person has gone, but their body lives on.” That’s another common idea, but I don’t think either you or I would agree with that.

You’re in a care home now, having lost the ability to sit unaided or to walk, with the power of speech long gone. A casual observer might easily assume you’re gone too, but you’re not. When I feel you bouncing my hand up and down in time to one of your jazz CDs, or see you raise a quizzical brow when I’m trying to sing to you in tune, or watch you wink at a pretty blonde member of staff or frown and whisper, “Shhh!” when one of the other residents is making a noise, I know you’re there all right.

I tell you all the news and you go still, I talk to you about your own situation and you stare directly at me, I hold a conversation with a nurse and you begin to chatter along in your own language, adding in the occasional polite social chuckle. You nod and give me a sideways look when I point out the self-evident truth that I’m pretty useless at feeding you. And then you give the same gasp of satisfaction after a swig of tea that you’ve always given.

In the last year, you’ve had three hospital stays. Each time, we realised after a few days that you were expected to die there. To the staff, you seemed to be on your last legs, not sitting up or talking. “He’s in a twilight world now,” said one consultant. Each time we’ve explained that you do still have quality of life, have a hearty appetite and are still very much with us. With treatment and solid food, you’ve recovered and gone on to have more happy times in your care home, where they know you so well.

Dementia sucks, yes, but we’ve had precious times and some laughs during the 12 long years of your illness. When you still lived at home with Mum and started doing things that were, to her, not only understandably maddening but also intolerably daft – peeing in her bottle garden, stuffing your used loo paper behind the bathroom radiator, waving back at grinning women in newspaper ads, whistling back at the birds singing in the trees – there still always seemed to be a logic there, intrinsically linked to your personality.

I remember one evening spotting you coming downstairs fumbling confusedly at your crotch. I realised you’d taken your trousers off to go to the loo, and had put them on again back to front. “I can’t find my bloody zip!” you said urgently – we both knew Mum would make something of this if she found out. “Let’s go in the dining room and look for it,” I whispered. When I pretended to find it lurking round the back, you were thrilled. We quickly effected a change, and you swaggered into the lounge, zip in place. We shared secret smirks about it for the rest of the evening.

Dad, you’ve always, always been a great guy, and you still are. You still enjoy life, though it’s a very different life – you’re in a safe, caring environment where you listen to the music you like, investigate interesting objects and hold hands with the nurses. Coming to see you is a tonic, not a chore, and I hope we’ll have lots more time to share. Love, J.