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Residents, family members and staff at Finlandia Hoivakoti Nursing Home in Sudbury, Ontario are discovering that maintaining a peaceful, tranquil environment with less agitation and wandering from people with cognitive impairment has been as simple as adding some beautiful murals to their home areas. Since 2015, the Sudbury long-term care home has been working with a local artist to create murals on exit doors in the secured areas depicting bookcases and vases, among other home-like features like a painted grandfather clock on a wall, to dissuade residents with dementia from trying to leave. The idea came from front-line staff members who attended a two-day workshop in 2014 focused on reducing agitation for people with dementia through holistic approaches. Harvey, Angela. |