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Look for Rem Pods on AmazonFull story →Richard Ernest pitched small pop-up rooms styled after past decades, built to calm and reconnect people living with dementia using furniture and objects from an era they remember well.
The business is still active, and its use appears to have widened since the pitch.
A Different Kind Of Pitch
Ernest wanted £100,000 for 45 percent of the company, a large stake for a piece of dementia care kit with essentially nothing else like it on the market.
Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden agreed to fund it jointly, after a Den discussion that reportedly probed hard on whether the concept was genuinely therapeutic or simply a novelty.
From Care Homes To Lecture Halls
Installations of the recreated rooms have continued across UK care settings in the years since, and the company later placed its kit inside a healthcare training centre at Aberystwyth University, a step beyond individual care homes into how future clinicians are taught.
That sort of institutional buy-in tends to stick around longer than a single care home contract, since it builds the equipment into staff training rather than only into day to day patient care.
Present Day
The company keeps a visible presence online promoting fresh installations, a concrete, current sign of a business still operating rather than one coasting on an old TV credit.
Memory loss care built around familiar sights and sounds from a patient's own past remains in genuine demand, and nothing about that underlying need has faded since the episode aired.