Lovely Claire, from our Care Words project, is working from home like many of us at the moment. Care Words is a National Lottery funded project which trains and supports volunteers to run reading and reminiscence groups in care settings for older people.
We have lots of wonderful volunteers and many residents looks forward to the monthly groups a great deal. As care settings are closed to visitors at the moment, Claire has been looking at other ways she can keep the spirits of care home residents up.
Every week, Claire will be sending out handwritten letters to any local care settings for older people that would like them, she will Facetime where that is possible and she will share a little home made video to give residents something fun to watch and to chat about – here’s her first one, all about her cat, Phantom
Claire is planning further videos and is hoping that local people will get in touch with a story about life in the area and some photos so she can put them together and share them with care homes across the Falkirk Council area. Stories might be about the 60s, and 70s, or about working life in Grangemouth, for example.
If you have any good stories that you think might spark memories in local older people in care homes, then please get in touch by email to tanya.milligan@falkirkcommunitytrust.org and I’l pass them on to Claire