Multisensory Relief With Snoezelen

Iconoculture: From autism to Alzheimer’s, patients are finding some multisensory relief in Rompa’s Snoezelen (SNOO-ze-len). It’s a cozy, therapeutic room filled with multiple colors and lights, soft music, pleasing fragrances, plush pillows, and other sensory stimuli that turns agitation into calm and confusion into comfort. A contraction of the Dutch words for “sniff” and “doze,” this European import excites the senses, which, in turn, reduces anxiety and promotes relaxation.
More than 500 of the psychedelic rooms are now lighting up U.S. healthcare facilities with practitioners citing promising results in easing the aggression, apathy, anxiety, and restlessness of Alzheimer’s patients (AlzInfo.org 1.2.04). And beyond patients, it’s good to remember that multisensory environments touch everyone in ways we don’t yet fully appreciate. Mind, body, and spirit can be moved, soothed, and healed when every sense is engaged.
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