When the Sun Goes Down

The Derwen Arms sounds like a historic English pub but it is historic in a different way.  This bar is inside the Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea.  It is part of an all-male wing called the Derwen Ward for patients suffering from dementia.

Since most of these men would head to pub after work, not having that familiar touchstone can lead to what is called Sundowning.  Described basically as patients who without anywhere to go after the sun goes down become cranky and ticked off because they lack access to what they used to be able to do.

Enter the pub.  Non-Alcoholic only with darts with plastic tips but otherwise similar to where these men may have gone back in the day.  And now they can again without going off the grounds and in a controlled environment.

We need more of this type of thinking because beer culture can be of use when used like this.