Exciting New Technology Careers

We always suggest that you put together a scrap book of your relative when they were 'in their prime', this makes a marked difference in the way in which care home staff respond to and think of their new resident.

 Lots of carers are of course well trained but equally importantly they are kind caring people who understand that the older people they are caring for were young once, and that they have a past, present and a future

 A care home manager recently told me that a resident of theirs had been in a Japanese POW camp and escaped after he discovered that his brother was in another camp a hundred or so miles away, he then had himself captured again and taken into the camp where his brother was held. He then escaped again this time rescuing his brother and made his way back to England.

 The staggering thing is that this great man had been in the care home for three years, and the carers only discovered his amazing past when the home organised an activity and uncovered the story.

 Now that care home group has a policy of finding out all they can about their new residents past because they have seen the difference it makes to the life of the resident and all those around.