Community Belonging – Lessons from lockdown
I’m fortunate to have two part time jobs. I work as a research assistant at the University of Edinburgh with “bold” (Bringing out Leaders in Dementia) project and, I am …
Read full article on Community Belonging – Lessons from lockdownLooking after ethnic minority older people during the Corona-19 pandemic in Scotland
The corona virus pandemic has changed the world as never seen before. It has meant that the Scottish Government has had to move quickly to put plans in place to …
Read full article on Looking after ethnic minority older people during the Corona-19 pandemic in ScotlandA Powerful Reunion
Around 1998 I was a home visitor for a project supporting older people. As part of this I visited a woman who I’ll call Edie. Edie had married late in …
Read full article on A Powerful ReunionLocked-in, lucked out ….
Since the start of the lock-down we’ve had a special kind of music in our house. Not special because of its genre or style. Not reliant on well known composers, …
Read full article on Locked-in, lucked out ….Fancy a new word…?
During the last few months amongst other national changes, we’ve started to use words and phrases that we’ve never used before and as is so often the case, under closer …
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‘It’s only us mum.’ ‘How did you get in son?’ ‘There is a keybox outside your door, we insert the code and use the key that’s in it.’ ‘Oh well, …
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For well over a hundred years, radio has played an important part in international, national and private lives journaling every part of our history. From a personal point of view …
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