I’m working on a couple of new writing and broadcast commissions with Arts for Health, Hall for Cornwall and Kernow Education and Arts Partnership KEAP: The Story Republic. For the time being I thought I would add a section to this blog about those things and try to keep up with meetings, reflections and research into how things go, as they develop and all that.

The focus is on working in Care Homes for Older people, and specifically with people who suffer with dementia.

So I thought I would start off with some interesting reflections from Diana Athill, who writes from the perspective of being in a Care Home herself, as well as her thoughts on the relationship between life and mortality.Moving into an Old Peoples Home

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It’s silly to be frightened of death

while sometimes the thought of going into hospital crosses my…