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Kent: The multi-sensory environment room is designed to provide a sensory
experience to clients
am using light, touch, sound
to create a relaxation response. Sometimes people are unable to
intellectualize how to relax so it's a way of
talking to people through their senses and teach them how to relax.
Katie: the main thing that a patient gets from going into a room like the multi-sensory
environment is a feeling of
happiness and joy and feeling that the activity that they're participating in
was designed just for them.
Andrew: it's an example, a wonderful example in fact of
how mental health care has evolved over the years and continues to evolve
in ways that we wouldn't have even thought possible
15, 20, 30 years ago. It actually was
funding through the Grand River Hospital Foundation that allowed us to buy the
equipment and the
education, and that really is quite significant,
was possible through the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation.
We have an education grants from them.
Katie: a lot of our clients especially because our clients on senior
specialized mental health
have a very low functional status, they have moderate to advanced dementia
and other
neurodegenerative conditions and so
their ability to participate in functional activities
is quite limited and so when they're in the multi-sensory environment room they
can really feel like they are
participating in something that they that they truly enjoy and want to do.
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