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Sheffield Hospitals Charity | Charity Partner 2025

Welcome to our new Charity Partner for 2025, Sheffield Hospitals Charity.

This year all of our efforts are centred around helping people across South Yorkshire to live better with dementia.

Everyone experiences dementia differently.

The way people think, feel, speak, behave and perceive things is affected. It’s not a normal part of ageing. But with the right help and support many people can live better with dementia.

Our support can help…

People living with dementia stay independent

Many hospital admissions for people living with dementia could be avoided. A huge amount of people living with dementia find admission to hospital frightening and confusing and their physical condition and cognitive function can decrease during their stay. By taking a holistic approach and funding support in the community, more people with dementia will be able to live independently for longer.

Provide specialist dementia training

Junior doctors to consultants, porters to occupational therapists and hospital volunteers to family carers, will receive specialist dementia training, enabling them to provide the most person-centred care.

Because when you are living with dementia, the whole environment matters.

Improve hospital spaces and activities

Activity co-ordinators will support people with dementia in hospital and specially designed activity boxes will help patients stay mentally and physically active.

By creating two beautiful garden spaces connected by a ‘reminiscence corridor’ at the Northern General Hospital, patients will have access to a calming outdoor space and a place to take part in co-ordinated activities.

Improving physical spaces and providing new activities for wards will help people living with dementia to feel safe and stimulated in hospital.

www.sheffieldhospitalscharity.org.uk

Last updated Friday 3 January, 2025