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BRING JOY TO PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA THIS CHRISTMAS

My name is Linda and I work in the Dementia Team at Bristol Royal Infirmary.

Christmas is particularly hard for my elderly patients. They remember their traditions of spending time with family, making paper chains, singing along to Christmas songs as you put up the tree and finding a six pence in their Christmas pudding. It’s often the most cherished memories they have. It’s sometimes the only memories they have.

Christmas to me is making sure my patients have moments of joy, comfort and hope when they’re spending the festive period in hospital. But to do that I need your help.

 

With your help, we will put smiles on patients’ faces this Christmas
£12 could pay for festive-themed treats for the Memory Café like mince pies and Christmas crackers.	£20 could pay for activities and games for patients on the ward to do with families and staff.	£30 could pay for a session in the hospital garden for elderly patients spending long periods of time in hospital.
BRING JOY TO PATIENTS THIS CHRISTMAS

 

Fill Christmas with joy for patients like Ernie

I have one patient, Ernie, whose wife comes to visit him every single day. There are no buses on Christmas Day, but that won’t stop her trying. I have other patients who will have no visitors at all.

For some patients, this Christmas in hospital will be their last.

I work with a caring and dedicated team who bring a ray of winter sunshine into what is often a sad situation for the patients we care for.

You can help us with the little things that can make a big difference to our patients. From a present to open on Christmas morning to a Christmas cracker to pull with their lunch; we want to make their Christmas the best it can be.

A donation today will help us do so much for patients like Ernie.

GIVE A GIFT TODAY

Thank you for taking the time to read my appeal and I hope you will consider supporting if you can.

With best wishes to you for a happy and healthy festive season.

 

Linda Hodgkinson

Dementia/Delirium/Falls Team
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

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We support the ten hospitals in Bristol city centre, South Bristol and Weston-super-Mare.  

 Any money raised over the target for this appeal will be used in the area of greatest need across the hospitals, going above and beyond to bring joy, comfort and hope to patients spending Christmas in hospital.