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"
Wednesday 10 December 2008 at The Alwoodly Suite David Lloyd Centre 10.15am - 12noon. The topic is "how to survive the holiday when you don't feel like celebrating and everyone else is" to be given by Revd Robin Walford.