Sweet Home memorial funds help implement new therapies for residents
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Keri Hanson
(l-r) Sweet Home staff Becca Morgan, CNA, Carla Jenewein, LPN and Jenni Pula, Sweet Home Administrator demonstrate the new blanket warmer at the facility. Studies have shown that warmed blankets can calm residents with dementia, sometime reducing the amount of medications they need. The blanket warmer was purchased with funds donated to SNH's Memorial Fund.
Thanks to memorial funds contributed by supporters, Sweet Memorial Nursing Home (SNH) is implementing some new therapies to help residents with memory issues and dementia. SNH Administrator Jenni Pula recently explained two new therapies supported by memorial funds and underway at the Chinook facility. Several employees just completed training to allow the local nursing home to become a Music and Memory Certified Care Organization. And a new blanket warmer is in use, with plans to add a second one.
Pula explained, "We receive Memorial Fund gifts-often in memory of or honor of a resident. We...
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