“How we treat our old people is a crucial test of our national quality. A nation that lacks gratitude to those who have honestly worked for her in the past while they had the strength to do so, does not deserve a future, for she has lost her sense of justice and her instinct of mercy”

David Lloyd George

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.

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