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Let’s help them to get in the charts for ‘Contact the Elderly’
Guitarist plays on charity song in a bid to reach the Top 40
4:50pm Saturday 23rd February 2013 in Wimbledon
Victor HaywoodA guitarist from a Wimbledon retirement properties has played on a charity song in a bid to reach the Top 40.
Victor Haywood, 68, who lives in Louie Black House in Elm Grove, joined staff and older people living in Anchor care homes and retirement properties from across London to record the song.
More than 150 people from across the county will be singing segments of the song which will be mixed by a professional record producer.
All the money raised from the sales of the Anchor Community Band record will be donated to charity Contact the Elderly, which organises monthly tea parties for older people who live alone.
Mr Haywood, a folk and Irish music fan, has played the guitar for more than 30 years.
He said: “Rehearsing and recording this song with older people living in other Anchor properties has been such an amazing experience and fun. I’ve really enjoyed making music with them.
“It’s a really powerful song because the words are telling younger people we are exactly the same as them but just a bit older. At the same time, the lyrics are meaningful to my generation and will evoke memories for many.”
http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/wimbledonnews/
Dementia care pledge for Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent
Pledge for excellence in dementia care for Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent launched
By rosa mcmahon
Saturday, February 23, 2013
7:00 AM
An initiative advocating exemplary care for people in the region affected by dementia was launched in mid Norfolk yesterday.
Manorcourt Care day centre in Griston hosted the Dementia Pledge for Norfolk Suffolk and Kent, which encourages those caring for people with dementia, either at home or in day centres, to sign up and commit to providing high standards of care.
A central part of the pledge, which aims to include more than 500 care providers, is to put the individual with dementia at the centre of care, as well as gaining a strong understanding of the condition.
The curious incident of the toast in the night-time
Phyllida Law: my mother’s dementia had its funny side
By Elizabeth Grice
8:00AM GMT 23 Feb 2013
A life on the stage, and marriage to the writer of ‘The Magic Roundabout’, equipped Phyllida Law with a sense of humour. In a new book she takes a comic, yet moving, look at her mother’s dementia.
So much merriment courses through Phyllida Law’s account of looking after her demented mother, Meg, that some busybody from the mental health police is bound to object that she isn’t taking the subject seriously enough.
Many of their exchanges belong in an Alan Bennett play. “You haven’t got your distance glasses on, Mother,” shouts the actress as Mego, as she was known, a little unsteady and suffering from glaucoma, totters off for her morning walk, waving her stick. “Don’t worry, dear,” comes the reply. “I’m not going any distance.”
Then there is the curious incident of the toast in the night-time. Mego woke in the early hours, yodelling: “Yoo-hoo. Anyone home? What’s for breakfast?” “I slithered downstairs to tell her it was 3am,” Phyllida recalls. “She seemed to be fiddling with her radio, so I asked if she’d like it on. She said, no, she was just trying to make herself a piece of toast. Something made me lock the front door as I went back to bed.”
