 Hei everyone, so I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to vlog after placement when I got back. I've been really tired and gone to sleep, so I'm really sorry about that. So I'm just going to take this opportunity now just to run through how amazing my week's been. So this week I've done my usual things, day-to-day things. I've done a lot of wound dressings, I've removed clips. I have had to pad wounds because they've been oozing out and they've been, there was one that exploded a little bit, so that was interesting to see and had to go and grab the doctor and the nurse because it just wasn't right at all and we had to pack it and I can't go into too much detail because confidentiality is really hard, not to, but I'm just going to say it was really grim if you don't like wounds and go and things like that but it was interesting for me to see and sort of deal with that sort of situation, it was really good for my learning I think and to be put in that sort of under pressure environment I suppose if you can call it that and what else have I done this week? A lot of admissions, a lot of discharges, we have done a lot of bladder washouts, we have sent off a lot of urine samples for UTIs, MRSA swabs, we've had a few patients that have been really unwell so doing them extra monitoring and observations on them we've had a couple of patients that have needed just that extra care and that extra time because they have dementia but on top of that they are just that little bit more confused because of surgery and they've been pulling out their cannulas and their catheters and all these things that they really really need but they don't have the capacity to understand how much they need these things and it's been interesting, it's been a really interesting week to be honest, I've really enjoyed this week, I've been so busy as well in between my placements, I've been doing all these extra things on my day off so I am feeling it and I just want to say this now when you're out there on your placement make the most of your days off you'll have three long days and then you'll have four days off but I'm the sort of person that likes to keep busy so I do all these extra things on my days off and never have any time to myself so that's why I'm so tired guys, it's not because it's that tough on me, it's just I'm busy and I make myself busy and it's my own fault so yeah so now whilst we're talking about the patients that we've got on the wards that have dementia I'm going to introduce you now to my friend Ignar Ripp who I actually connected to Ignar through Twitter and the power of Twitter and connecting people and it was just amazing and Ignar is so passionate about dementia and helping patients with dementia through music, music is just such a powerful tool and it's the most underused thing that's out there right now and I met up with Ignar and it was just amazing and we had a little chat about dementia and what he does and what it's all about I'm just going to, I did a little video for you because I wanted to show you Ignar because he's fabulous and just let me know what you think of the video below and please don't forget to check out Ignar's links because I'm going to put all the details below because he's absolutely fantastic and you need to go and follow his page and have a look at the website and have a little bit more, have a little read about what he does with those with dementia and he won an award because he's amazing I've actually done a separate vlog on the fab awards that I went to on Thursday which was absolutely amazing, you're not going to want to miss this video, this video is going to be a fantastic 1948 style it's amazing, I'm going to post it probably Monday or Tuesday, either Monday or Tuesday this week, just keep an eye out for it, don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already subscribed and keep an eye out for that but yes, I'm going to show you me and Ignar now when we met up everyone, look, I'm awake, I'm fresh, I'm clean, I'm not on placement, I've got two days off and it is the eve of the fab awards 2018, if you don't know what the academy of fabulous stuff is, why not? go back and watch my vlog all about it, it's absolutely amazing, I'm going to put the link above so please after you've watched this vlog go and click it and see what it's all about because you need to be involved with it if you work in the healthcare setting profession anywhere in the world, whole worldwide, please take a look at this and see how you can get involved for next year and be part of this amazing event so tomorrow is all about the awards, it is going to be a 1940s themed event with free food and drink, amazing so I've been really honoured, this is a massive privilege to be invited as actually somebody's guest to go along to these award ceremonies see all of these amazing people, go up and get their awards, I'm really really excited for some of the people because quite a few of them are on my twitter page and I go and I read their blogs and things and I'm really excited to meet them, really excited to see them and hopefully I'll get some videos as well for you because everybody needs to see how amazing these people are so I'm going to get some videos, if I can speak to people and they're happy for me to take a video of them I will do that and you'll see that in this video but it's going to be amazing, it's 1940s I think I've said that, I'm really excited, I'm going to speak 100mph, I'm sorry, I'm really excited it's going to be free food, free drinks, I'm going to meet some absolutely amazing people and I'm going alone I don't know anybody actually that's going, I just know of people on social media and twitter so it's going to be really nice to put a face to the tweets and things so that's going to be really interesting but I am going alone, I'm really anxious about it, I'm really scared people often think I'm this massive extrovert and I'm confident I'm not, don't tell anybody this but I'm not, I'm going to be really really scared I'm going to have a glass of wine and lighten up and I'm going to go out and I'm going to speak to people so it's going to be good but here's my fancy dress, I'm not going to show you all, I will show you it later when it's on, not later, tomorrow when it's on this is the top of it, it's like a 1940s evening dress I suppose I don't know, when I googled 1940s that's the sort of style that came up so I'm hoping I've got it right if not sorry about that I've also got some brogues, look how beautiful these brogues are so I've got some fancy brogues and yeah that's my outfit sorted for tomorrow, I shall show it all tomorrow anyway when I go in but today I'm going to head down to London a day early, I'm going to be there tonight I'm going to meet up with the fantastic Ignar who I'll get a video because Ignar is the most amazing person I know he's fantastic, I'm going to put a link to his YouTube page below in all the details any details below please look at them, click on the links, read about people it's going to be amazing and I'm really annoyed because I got Ignar a present and it hasn't arrived I ordered it like a month ago, sorry Ignar if you're watching this to let the cow out of the bag but I ordered it like a month ago and it's not arrived yet so I need to chase that up and when it arrives I can send it to him so yeah it was really good as well, I can't tell you will show you it because then he'll see it so if he watches the video so anyway I'm going to get ready and I'm going to leave for London hi so I'm here finally with Ignar finally a pleasure to meet you and we're going to talk to you all about dementia and music well you are it's really great to meet you there I see your vlogs and I love them and check out Ignar's channel I'm going to put the links below and the website I love your vlogs because you really put in there so much passion about the people in healthcare so here we have Ignar's music box do you want to explain to people the importance of this? I can, of course I can well everybody knows that music is important but how do you find the music that resonates with the person with dementia? well the first thing is that you do is that you go looking which music was popular when the person with dementia was between his 50 and 25 years because all the music we have heard between that years is so deeply rooted that even dementia cannot destroy these music memories so all the music you have heard Claire between your 50 and 25 years will never never never leaves you it never leaves me now to be fair when you hear it, when you were 80 years and you know I was there I was doing that, I was dancing and what close I had on this music is really bringing those feelings of when you was on the top of the world and you think I can conquer the world very powerful music a second way to find the right music you can use the music discovery list you can find them on our website you can download it or print it out or you can find someone's favourite music because your favourite music player does not have to be the same as the music at the 50, 25 music but I think between your 50 and 25 you go to dancing to disco is that still your favourite music? no well you see but that music that you have heard then if you heard it about over 50 years it brings back those memories when you were going out having fun, feeling good but with this list I can find Claire's personal favourite music so I ask what kind of singer do you like? well it would be 90s music probably and what was singer? oh god, the backstreet boys Hansen be witched it's boys girls it's very important that you never judged all music is good there was no bad music there was no good music every music is good so all the songs you find in the 50, 25 rule and with the music discovery list you throw that songs in your music box just throw them in don't think about this and when you have a few songs more songs in your music box you start to look what's blowing to morning music, waking up or at the shower or activating somebody or sleeping and very important is that the only thing that you know you have to write music is when you do and try because the trap is that most people think they knew what kind of music a person like but through the dementia it can change it can totally change so the only way to find it out is by doing a touring see if the music is resonate with the person and then only then you know I have the right music what do you think Claire? put us work? I think so, how do you think in how could we incorporate in hospitals like on the boards with patients what I always say is that dementia care you can't do it alone not at home not in a hospital or not in a care home it's too much or you can say you have too many nurses or care workers but you need the family and you need the volunteers so you have to engage them, you have to ask them please help us so if a person with dementia is going to a hospital you have to pack his pyjama, his two birds and his playlist because then you can give the person some handholds and most hospitals have got radios so you must play the radio maybe yes depending on what station it's very good of you Claire that you say that because most of people think music oh we turn on the radio but most of the time the radio is music of this time so that music does not resonate with the person so it's very important that you create a special playlist for the person but most people with dementia going into a hospital leaving the hospital mentally worse than they came in so the broken hip is meant done perfect get away a few steps and with the right music it will help the person with it you have yourself you have the pholoncteric work with the dementia better understanding dementia in Sandwell and Dudley what did you do? it was mainly activities they sat down and played games like memory games so they had the old things like the old whisk the old washing board they had the old aprons the old mixers the old Barbie dolls that go in the toilet roll it's like the old toilet roll thing and they love that because it brings back all the memories and then in the afternoon they did a song session where they played all the different songs and they did exercises like the legs and the arms to get the body working and the brain working it was nice so they combined the music with the activities the physical and the mental it was really powerful because music with activities music is activated in wine so it makes going with activities easier and what was the reaction with the people of dementia they loved it they were really happy, they were having a great time they were laughing, they were smiling and they just left on a high it was really good it's so simple it's really so simple that you can so much joy by the simple things and they love also when you come with the objects of the past all the things you show and they had pictures as well so they had pictures of the Victorian times and all these different eras that they could go through as well that is also very important because for a person his home feeling is going back not back to the future is back to the past so a person with dementia does not recognize his own home or the surrounding he is in it and it's frightened you hear people often say I'm going home, I don't live here let me go, please let me go and they always ask for the mother and father because they still think they're that child again they're living in the past so when we create an environment where they have handholds or they find things from their past you give them some home feeling some safety and when you do that you can lesser problem behavior unrest and run away urges and you can easily do that you look to the person look what he has done in his life think about in the period what kind of colors objects in his room yeah, I agree it's nice for them it's something familiar I think especially if they're in a hospital setting as well because then it's really hard the hospital is a very hard setting but it's also a little bit difficult to put in much objects you can bring some things and put it on the table everything helps I think it does the little things are the big things so indeed just Claire is saying take little things with you you can also think photographs you can put photographs on the wall and don't mind if the nursing say, we don't do that here you say, yeah well no people do say that a hospital is not a museum is not a place where they keep walls safe a hospital is a place where they mend and care for people and if care is putting on some really nice pictures some person has home feelings then you do that and you can send them to me if they don't want it and to Claire and we'll see coming whoa this is my dress