Currently a group of people meet three to four times a year. This attracts a variety of professionals and organisations that offer support to older people. We are aware that the population of older people is rapidly increasing and we wish to attract a wider range of people working with this age group and to respond to their needs as appropriately as possible.
This group offers the opportunity to meet with others working with similar issues, gain knowledge, skills and awareness of the bereavement issues of older people. We are also aware that those working with older people come across a large amount of bereavement themselves and strategies need to be developed to support them. Our meetings provide opportunities for people to meet each other where we can discuss specific situations. We also sometimes have a speaker on these occasions.
We recently ran five free lunch time sessions raising peoples basic awareness and skills in dealing with grief and loss. These were very successful and if you would be interested in training such as this, please contact us.
"Memory Services"
"Being practical, planning for dying'
"Basic Bereavement Training"
"Ageing and Mental Health - your views of the campaign"
"Age Concern"
Tuesday 12 October 2010 12.30pm - 2.30pm at St Chad's Parish Centre. Hilary Suddes and members of the team of Leeds Children and Young People's Social Care will discuss their role 'Regional Specialist Paediatric Social Work Support Team'.
"Unexpected death in childhood - the impact on familes and professionals" Wednesday 15 September 2010 for more information please go to www.childbereavement.org.uk
Thursday 18 November 2010 at Thackrays Musuem on the topic of 'The Place of Ritual in Death and Dying'. More information to follow shortly.