I’ve recently become a charity trustee for the first time for the My Home Life Charity, that works to support quality of life for all people who live, die, work in and visit Care Homes. I’ve been a part of the MHL Scotland facilitation team in the past so understand...
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The residential care sector is indebted to Dame Gillian Wagner who has died at the age of 98. She chaired, and gave her name, to the seminal report into residential care ‘A Positive Choice’ published in 1988. However, it was what she did next that is remarkable. She...
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This is my very personal account of supporting my mother-in-law to move into a care home.
This is my very personal account of supporting my mother-in-law to move into a care home.
We really cannot underestimate the level of pain people had to go through during the lockdown, being kept away from their loved ones. But the beautiful thing that came out of it was how deeply we got to know our residents.
Another initiative which we introduced during the restrictions and have continued, is the idea of mourning with relatives. What have you put in place to make good ideas happen more of the time?
It was wonderful to do all these lovely things together, for our residents, and we all had a sense of ownership. It made us feel proud of the exciting and engaging things we could come up with.
So far, we’ve made some useful progress on ‘little’ things as well as quite significant areas of how we operate. For instance, you often hear of the ‘little things that matter’, and how this can make your day.