Ideal Home

Lady arrived at our residential care home; a new resident. Proper nice lady, speaks like the Queen. I love it when we get new residents because I love people! There are roughly seven and a half billion people in the world and only one like you or me. Don't you think that's amazing!!!!! Even after my degree is finished... HA! I haven't even started it yet!! I will still want to do this work. I love it so much!!

I want to run a home actually, based on a linear model not a heirarchical one. Where the management simply have a different role but cross over in that role depending on the needs of the home. Similarly, with the care staff. I want specialist care staff that go to meetings and input as they work with residents and know them really well so their opinion and expertise is valued and heard. I want kitchen staff that feed the whole home managers included. At some homes, no one will eat the same food as the residents because either the kitchen staff are unhiegenic or the food is recycled way too much! So I want it like a cafeteria where everyone eats as opposed to a trolly that's pushed around to the resident's dining room.

I want rooms decorated and sponsored by some of the large chains. They'll be decorated wonderfully and also the rooms will be so different! Sure for advertising purposes but in a large home that would pay off well I think. I would have local florists doing fresh flowers for the day rooms and I would ask local allotement growers to sell their fresh produce to us.

I'd have a seperate out building for a loo because it's nostalgic HA!!! Jokes...An out building for production where residents could go and work if they wanted to still. They would earn some money and keep their own self occupied under supervision, especially blokes who get so bored in homes generally because their time isn't filled with pampering and nail painting and having their hair shampooed and put in rollers.

I'd even have the cafeteria open to the public I think... that way the food would have to be nice and it would provide a much needed link to the outside community. It's a shame, like a really proper shame on all of us in this world that we shut people with dementia away and forget about them even when they are just next door to our house or work place.

Where is the nearest residential home to your work place uh??? Go in there and show your skill or provide some of your time for them even one hour to display your skill.

I want to revolutionise this industry. It needs it, people with dementia need it. They need more than a cursory glance and smile from our day.