I’ve been fortunate for most of my life to be pretty healthy. Even having my two children only resulted in one night in hospital for my first birth. So, my recent three nights in hospital came completely out of the…
Be in The Kindness Club
You can’t buy it (not genuinely anyway) and you can’t teach it. It’s also the one quality I hold in higher regard than any other. What am I talking about? Kindness. For me, kindness is non-negotiable, and it’s always been…
Hearing loss and dementia – Don’t ignore the link!
I talk about it in many of my training sessions, I’ve highlighted it in meetings and on social media, and recently it featured on BBC Radio 5 Live as a lady from the RNID told the breakfast presenter about how…
Know a person’s boundaries
I want to start this blog by sharing a graphic from a social media post from a wonderful friend and colleague, Nicola Payne: The graphic Nicky shared got me thinking about myself and my friends and family, but also about…
Resolve to challenge assumptions about independence
Without a doubt, the topic of how to support independence has seen the biggest volume of training enquiries for me in 2022 (I touched on this in my September 2022 blog). I attribute many of these enquiries to the post-Covid…
