On a recent visit to Sweden I was invited to participate in a community event with residents, staff and families to an international feast - a Valkommen!
Read moreFinding the right place to learn: enabling purpose, commitment and meeting learning needs
Research shows that successful care homes are learning organisations: they strive continuously to meet standards of quality and best practice through learning and development. We know that Managers play a central role both strategically and operationally in making this happen and owners provide the enabling framework and support.
Read moreRemember me- Michael Palin on care homes or your own home?
MP says older people should remain in their own homes. Surely people need more options than this when they don’t want to be lonely or be anxious about maintaining a property - We need a graduated pathway that does not necessarily fall in the ‘care home’ category.
Read moreChasing an elusive dream – in denial or outright hypocricy?
Let’s get real. Where are the volunteers, sons and daughters and neighbours when good will of neighbours and pop in visits become inadequate?
Read moreFrailty
There is definitely a ‘frailness syndrome’ which we ought not to delete from our language of understanding of what is going on for a person who has it. I can’t say I’ve ever associated it with the end stage of life i.e. dying per se.
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