For some years now, RemindMeCare (aka ReMe) has been positively impacting lives in the UK, helping people connect with their past and engage with the present. We’re seeing amazing results, with people being supported to lead more person centred and meaningful lives, inclusive of family, friends and carers, wherever they may be.
One of ReMe’s aims is to use knowledge of the person to achieve improved engagement, to the extent that in some cases knowledge of what content calms a person can actually become a replacement for prescribing drugs to reduce agitation. Recent research in both the UK and US shows that overworked nursing home staff will sometimes over sedate to make life easier (Guardian article). With an emerging trend towards finding ways to reduce the use of antipsychotic medication, ReMe has a pivotal role to play in such cases. Through ReMe’s ability to discover calming content, engagement between carer and resident is improved and agitation reduced. Personalised acute care strategies can be created that reduce the need for medication and this in turn can improve job satisfaction and reduce staff costs.
And the good news is that the word has begun to spread, and RemindMeCare is now being adopted throughout the world. ReMe’s reaching people as far away as Australia, just through word of mouth.
ReMe is Activity Based software, it’s not care planning software. And as such is easy to adopt requiring only tablets and broadband to get going. As a result, distance is not an issue. ReMe’s no more complicated than purchasing Office 365 or Spotify.
Take a look at the pages and videos on this website for your care sector and then book a webinar demo. If you like what you see, we’ll set you up with ReMe to try for a short while, after which you’ll be able to purchase the system on either a monthly or yearly subscription basis. In the former case, you can stop payments anytime, whilst in the latter you’ll be offered discounts.
There’s really nothing to lose, and everything to gain – for those you care for, your staff and your business.
Extract CQC Report: ‘The home had recently introduced an electronic reminiscence tool (RemindMeCare) that enables them to build a profile of the person and continually helps staff to learn and understand the person’s life history. The information is accessed using a media tablet and includes pictures, music and personal memories and messages from families that can be loaded onto the system remotely. The lifestyle coordinator spent time explaining to us how they use this system to engage with people and promote conversation with them about their past.
We saw one person using the system. They were viewing and talking about pictures their family had up loaded. The person appeared happy and was engaged in meaningful conversation with the lifestyle coordinator. Comments for example were, “Oh I remember that house. I lived there in 1957 and “That’s our first car. We had so much fun in that”. People were also able to listen and enjoy music from their past.
The lifestyle coordinator told us, “This is still a fairly new innovation but it is fantastic to be able to fully engage with families in this way. It has made such a difference to the people living here in such a short space of time. It is particularly good in helping us engage with people living with dementia.”
Samir Patel, Oaklands Care Home. Click here and here to access full report (see p.15)
We’re now working with care professionals in the US and in particular are looking for care/nursing homes anywhere in the US, to join our early adopters and to trial ReMe, for both persons with dementia and those with learning disabilities.
And, if you work with us, we’ll give you ReMe for free. There’s really nothing to lose, just everything to gain!
Go on, why not contact us right now, here.