Goggles, headphones, prickly soles in your shoes and noise in a dark room. Just some of what staff and students in the nursing department at UNB Saint John are experiencing as they learn what its like to have dementia.
Senior Teaching Associate Dr. Karen Furlong tells us says the Virtual Dementia Tour has been used in long term care facilities to help educate workers.
She says they are using the resource as it relates to healthcare and as they prepare future registered nurses.
3rd year nursing student Cherie Garrett tells us she found the darkness in the room debiltating.
She wears glasses so putting the goggles on made it more difficut and the noise in the room made it hard to concentrate on the tasks they were assigned.
Student Heather Hubbard says she will able to her adjust the way she cares for seniors after having this experience.
