Meet my mum, Beryl. She owned and ran a care home where I grew up. We were a six-generation household and one big family. It was a place of belonging and togetherness, dignity and kindness, where past meets present and lays the foundations for a rich and vibrant future. It was a special place.
This is me, Lyn, and the Care Home is where I became fascinated by people – the person within, not just how they look on the outside. Our lives together – the people who lived there, worked there and visited – have much to show us as a society about the way we treat people in later life.
Please enjoy our stories about the many characters who enrich all our lives in the later years of their lives.
And share your experiences about the older people in your life.