Every Life Matters. Meaning Matters. Moments Matter. People Matter.
In her April Blog, my wife Joy wrote about her Dad, Ray who lived at Wren Hall Nursing Home in Selston, UK. ‘Food was a
I once attended an hour-long presentation about how important it is to put salt and pepper on dining tables in dementia care homes. Sure, salt
One of my favourite meals are sliced fresh tomatoes on toast with lots of ground black pepper. This takes me right back to my grandmother’s
Over many years of training and consultancy work, particularly as a Dementia Care Mapper, but also doing observations in my work with Meaningful Care Matters,
Much has been written about the power of telling and sharing stories across cultures both to entertain and sometimes to educate with key moral messages.
The brain is the biggest sex organ. “If it isn’t happening in the head-room, it isn’t happening in the bed-room” is how I like to
I consider myself a fairly unshockable person. However, there have been a few moments in my career when something someone has said has stopped me
Could it be that there is a place for sensual expression when sex isn’t possible or no longer desired? In some relationships, sexual expression can
How carers respond to erotic touch and touching to further intimacy between people with dementia reflects the wider culture of care. A care service team
It felt like the Great Escape. Ray was sitting at a dining table at Wren Hall helping himself to his third stack of French Toast
