The delightful ’Old peoples home for 4 year olds’ returned this week to Channel 4 with a new extended experiment. Extensive research shows the benefits of bringing together older and younger people to share experiences and interactions – now it’s happening in our community! Following a successful pilot in Cranleigh this year, the Generation Gap …
Many old people go for days without any human contact. We know that this isolation brings increased risks of ill health. We must start looking at healthcare as everyone’s business, not just being dispensed by the state. In our lives today, increasingly lived in silos and communities of interest, there is an impact on all generations. This creates stress and …
This week I visited the excellent new facilities at the Riding for the Disabled Association in Cranleigh. Casi’s Farm is set in a beautiful position at the end of Rowley Drive;the views were inspiring before I even set foot in the fantastic extended building. The lighter, brighter building will be opened by Clare Balding OBE …
Dementia is not just a disease, it is a lived experience. The plaques and tangles strangling the brain cells are merely medical explanations for a set of symptoms that are difficult to comprehend for anyone. Experiencing what it’s like to live with dementia as I did yesterday in a ’Virtual Dementia Tour experience’ has had …
A meeting was held by the SMART Cranleigh group on 22nd November 2017 at Rowleys Centre, Victoria Road, Cranleigh. The meeting started with a welcome and opening by The Mayor of Waverly Cllr. Simon Inchbald. There followed a plenary session which was addressed by Stephen Dennison and Rosemary Hurtley both Directors of the Smart Cranleigh …
When children or younger adults spend time with seniors, it helps to dispel or conquer the negative stereotypes related to ageing. One of the most important and beneficial outcomes from this is that younger people recognise and appreciate their shared humanity. Through engaging in meaningful activities with older adults, they come to realise that they …
Deena Goff, an advisor to SMART Cranleigh, writes… Loneliness is a perfectly normal perceived feeling rather than an actual condition. It is one that everyone struggles with at one time or another. It can be experienced by all ages from isolated babies, children in nursery, through school, university, work, retirement and the elderly. People from …
People are living longer and as they get older, developing long term health conditions. Their health is affected by a wide range of factors including employment, housing, debt, social isolation and culture. These ‘other’ factors have a huge impact on how we feel and can have a negative influence on our actual health. Yet these …