Colourful Crockery in Daisy's Café

Thank you to the Valerie Munday Daycentre Trust for providing a grant to fund our new colourful crockery at Daisy’s Café. This is now available for our customers to enjoy and start benefitting from in our warm and welcoming café environment.

Colour definition has a huge impact for people living with dementia to be able to focus and to see their food on a plate or drink in a cup. There is a common secondary dementia variant that people can develop called Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) which limits sight down to pin prick vision, with very little peripheral view or spatial awareness. For example, a white mug on a white surface may be almost invisible. Bright coloured crockery assists people to remain independent when they are eating meals & socialising in our community café and when in Day Breaks respite care.

As with the overall design of our facility, this new crockery means our café is even more ‘dementia-friendly’. If you are thinking of ways to make your home environment more accessible consider the use of colour to provide a focus to surroundings. Dementia affects how the brain processes visual information so try using bright contrasting colours for personal items, use plain flooring and avoid patterned rugs or wallpapers. Studies show people with dementia perform daily tasks more successfully when important items visually stand out from their surroundings.