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 2: Splits and Glitches
“Because the matriarch or patriarch is collapsing, there is no rudder or no anchor to the family structure anymore”
Lizzi’s family went through a painful split as they disagreed on the nature of their mother’s care. She says they had been close, but a complex play of needs in the situation pulled them in different directions, and eventually pulled them apart. Lizzi describes her feelings about institutionalised care, and the duty she feels we have to our elders.