Hailey Beavis has been working at the Western General Hospital weaving together imagery, song and chat, on medicine of the elderly wards.

“A woman who needed a good deal of convincing to come through to the day room said on reflection at the end: “I never thought I could have done all that.” Initially she needed encouragement to achieve the smallest thing, but by the end she was verbalising ideas and self directing. It was a real transformation.”

A man who was participating in a different session three weeks ago told Hailey:“I didn’t even know that I could use scissors anymore. I enjoyed that, I’ve never done anything like that before.”

Wonderful things happen in fleeting moments and as we start to work on a mural for the ward walls we look forward to sharing more of them.