Dementia: Care home uses dolls to ease anxiety
Dolls are having a positive effect on people with dementia, a care home has said.
HUG dolls were designed in 2019 specifically to help people with advanced dementia.
"They're very peculiar-looking," said Kate Prince, manager of Willowcroft Care Home in Derby. "We weren't sure how residents would take to them."
But she said one resident - who has had Alzheimer's since 2014 - loved the doll, adding it "eased her anxiety".
Video journalist: Emma Snow
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