And these shouldn’t be allowed to vote?
Ageism amongst 16 – 34 year olds that would deny the vote to over 70s.
November 11, 2019
Working to support older people and shape the issues that affect them
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November 6, 2019
October 30, 2019
How to stop elderly people being poisoned by overly strong medication?
Elderly bodies can not process powerful pills, and many older people are having to cope with the negative side effects of drugs that are too
October 30, 2019
Thank you Christian Resources Exhibition!
Our presence at Christian Resources Exhibition was a blessing to many visitors, as they were to us!
October 20, 2019
October 10, 2019
Dementia: Pathways to Hope, and a study in a Welsh Valley shows the way.
Tomorrow is World Alzheimer Awareness Day on the 21st, and it begs the question – where are we today, 118 years after Lois Alzheimer’s first
September 20, 2019
A dying, elderly lady blesses the lives of thousands
God has a purpose for each purpose, right to the end of their lives.
September 16, 2019
Purpose in old age? God has it all stitched up!
This morning I arrived 30 minutes too early for my optician’s appointment. (Friends, note, I was half an hour EARLY!) The helpful receptionist said I
September 5, 2019
Living a genuinely fulfilled life
When God created the world He instilled in us a sense of purpose. So for life to have meaning it has to have purpose. In the daily
August 21, 2019
Dementia
Stories that show the way through dementia
Yesterday, Dr Jennifer Bute and I were interviewed for a Podcast that’s broadcast from America. (I’ll post the broadcast date when I have it.)This is a Podcast with a difference. It’s based on how stories influence the way people understand various issues in life – in this case, dementia. For instance, do we communicate well with people with dementia, by telling them a story? (It depends on the person and the stage of their dementia.) But we communicate with their care givers and families with stories very well – particularly true stories.
July 26, 2019
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Shattered mobile phone sends a strong message
This may look like just a shattered mobile phone. But it’s more than that. It’s an allegory! It’s the phone that 19 year old Luke put together for me months before the accident that killed him last December. He sat at the kitchen table working on it patiently asking questions like, ‘do you want Messenger on the front screen?’ and showing me how it worked. ‘Switch on the security screen before you put it in your bag,’ he sighed when I asked why the icons moved all over the place when I put it in my bag. After his death I particularly treasured that phone.
July 25, 2019
News
Put some rocket fuel under this agenda!
If you watched the interviews on TV with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt you will have seen their responses to the question about funding social care. Jeremy Hunt said straight away that he would do it, and that he would merge the NHS and social care.
July 10, 2019
News
When management sees staff as humans made in God’s own image
There’s an interesting item in Premier’s digital newsletter this morning about a study that looked at what happens in the workplace when we treat staff either as ‘resources’ or beings made in God’s image. (See ref below). The report titled ‘Human resources – recognising the personhood of workers in the charity and public sectors’, was supported by the Leech Fellowship Committee and Baptist and Anglican churches.
July 8, 2019
Words are powerful and we CAN make a difference
The Government will make an announcement about social care funding at the earliest opportunity, a minister said in reply to MP Nick Thomas-Symonds’ question. What would he say to the two sisters caring for their dying father who were struggling with a disjointed system where they had to fight for the simplest of things? In despair they wrote a letter to The Times. And how do we, as Christians, respond? The Bible is clear that this is what we ought to do.
July 5, 2019
Caring for older people
Care not Killing, and new euthanasia lobby move
We don’t want to find ourselves being euthanized because doctors have taken a subjective view of our quality of life, which is what happened in Belgium and was reported earlier in this blog. Or have a 75 year old woman with dementia being euthanized against her will.
June 28, 2019
Caring for older people
Unpaid caregivers seven times more lonely than the rest of us
There are now an estimated 8.8 million adult carers in the UK, up from 6.3 million estimated in the 2011 census. That’s a huge increase in numbers. And they are seven times more likely to be lonely compared with the general public, new figures suggest.
June 13, 2019
Ageism affecting older people.
How to write to your MP about the social care crisis
Proverbs 31:8 says, ‘”Speak up for people who cannot speak for themselves. Protect the rights of all who are helpless,’ (GNT).
June 3, 2019
News
The human stories behind the social care funding crisis
Most Councils are under huge financial pressure, with some on the verge of bankruptcy, struggling to meet the needs of a small percentage of their population after years of government under-funding of social care.
May 30, 2019
Ageism affecting older people.
BBC’s Panorama shows people suffering as social care collapses
This evening there’s a Panorama programme at 9.00 o’clock showing how people are suffering because of the collapse of social care funding – both individuals and Local Authorities – Councils.
May 29, 2019
