Rug donation set to help dementia sufferers

The Country Women’s Association Safety Bay branch has brought joy to the community by donating fiddle rugs to Brightwater’s residents living with dementia.

Fiddle rugs are blankets which include interactive elements such as zippers, buttons, textured motifs and beats.

CWA Safety Bay member Dorothy Sermon said creating the fiddle rugs was a pastime the group took pleasure in.

“We really do enjoy making them and giving them to the community,” she said. “It is very important to us because that is the CWA belief.”

Brightwater client service leader Elli Stevenson said she was thankful for the branch’s contribution.

“We want to thank the ladies from Safety Bay CWA for making these beautiful fiddle rugs for our clients who are living in the community with dementia,” she said.

“These fiddle rugs make such a difference to the way that they (people living with dementia) spend their days and their time.

“Some people who live with dementia become quite agitated so therefore they pace or just fiddle with things or move things around the home all the time, so their carer or family member can sit them with the fiddle rug and it keeps their mind active.

“So it is really good and much appreciated.”

The rugs were donated to residents at a special lunch at Brightwater’s Rockingham office on August 16.

The CWA Safety Bay branch also donated blankets to Gracehaven’s Rockingham aged care facility.