Care Homes
Sky Inside™ Living Skies and windows create realistic, stimulating sensory moving images that can be placed on any wall or space. These beautiful artificial windows have been specifically created to enhance the atmosphere of care homes for their residents and staff. Sky Inside™ utilises modern, bespoke LED lighting inspired by biophilic design to display moving imagery, including scenes of clouds, nature, or suburban environments.
Care homes are often occupied by residents who face numerous challenges. These may incorporate both physical and mental difficulties, which can contribute to unrest among older residents. Furthermore, the lack of engagement and integration with the outside world can also cause a decline in both physical and mental health. Sky Inside Living Skies™ and windows have been crafted to create a sense of reality. This can be mentally stimulating, allowing residents to find both pleasure and entertainment in these realistic moving images.
How Sky Inside™ Can Help
Sky Inside™ offers a range of benefits to both care home residents and staff.
Boosting residents’ mood - Sky Inside™ products are good for residents’ long term mental health.
Entertaining to watch - Sky Inside™ is a pleasant alternative or supplement to watching television or listening to the radio.
Promotes a calm environment - Beneficial for residents who struggle with emotional outbursts.
Offers a simple solution for smaller spaces - Some rooms may feel small or even claustrophobic. Sky Inside™ moving skies and windows create light to make rooms feel bigger.
Assists with better routines - Daytime and nighttime images can create a better sense of time for residents.
Visuals stimulate memories - These calming, non-invasive windows and ceilings can trigger memories, encouraging residents to be more active in speaking and communicating.
Beautiful visuals - Sky Inside™ enhances the care home environment for staff, who work long hours and with sometimes challenging residents.
Helping Residents With Dementia
Dementia and Alzheimer’s create various challenges within the healthcare sector. Some patients with Dementia may become overwhelmed, which can lead to emotional outbursts. Stimulation with imagery and music has been found to improve mental well-being. Sky Inside™ moving skies and windows can nourish the imagination of all residents with pleasing imagery. Visual aids can also support residents in improving their conversational skills and resting their minds.
A Simple And Effective Solution
Living Skies™ create moving windows and ceilings that are mood lighting compatible and feature ultra-realistic imagery with proven mood-boosting qualities. For example, Seasonal Affective Disorder is a common issue that people struggle with. Living Skies™ can help to dispel some of the negative feelings that SAD generates. Bright, beautiful sunny skies and nature scenes can create a relaxing environment for all.
Often residents within care homes can have long term issues with their Circadian Rhythm™, due to periods of inactivity and day time sleeping. Due to physical conditons or medication, this cannot always be resolved, but Living Skies™ and windows can be programmed to play chosen images at specific times. Daytime skies and nature images provide gentle reminders about the time of day, and this, in turn, can promote healthier nightime routines and better quality sleep.
An economic solution
Simple and easy to install, Living Skies™ products can be set to your care home’s specific needs. Living Skies™ are ultra realistic with LED lighting. Meanwhile, both Living Skies™ and windows offer custom sizes and designs. They also have a dimmer feature to support use on minimum or maximum power.
Artificial windows or skylights can be installed easily. Their non-reflective design means that they do not interfere with any privacy elements. They are exceptionally safe and bespoke to create inspirational and calming imagery in care home settings.
For more information, please contact us to see how these products can bring both tranquillity and comfort into your care home setting.