Home from Home: Journeys into Care for Older Adults
Keziah Wenham-Kenyon has been having conversations with people that make up a fragment of the sprawling social fabric of the care system for older adults. This three part series will take a closer look into care, from perspectives that are underrepresented and intersections that require more compassion-led, people-focused support than traditional forms of care are currently providing.
Season 1 is also available now, produced and composed by Jennifer Bell of stories gathered from people across the country of their experiences of the care system for older adults in the UK.
Season 2
Produced and Narrated by Keziah Wenham-Kenyon
Artwork by Jasmine Thompson
Season 1
Produced and Composed by Jennifer Bell
Artwork by Naomi Gennery
Home from Home: Journeys into Care for Older Adults
Season 1 Episode 1: In a Class of Her Own
“The music wasn’t her cup of tea, and they would swear a lot and be laughing and getting drunk”
Cathy’s mum went into a great Housing Association flat that offered Supported Living, but she never quite fit in with the people there. Cathy talks about the class dimension of that, and how her mum often found herself stuck in the middle; and about the difficult and surprisingly heartening experience of holding a remote funeral ceremony during the pandemic.