The Young Ones

I hope you managed to catch the BBC One TV series last week called "The Young Ones". This series should be essential viewing for anyone involved in care for older people. The series followed the progress of six elderly celebrities as they spent a week together participating in an experiment on how people can retain and regain mobility and other faculties. The messages for care staff are clear and important - dependency and decline in old age has much to do with how young you feel. Doing less for people often helps them more. The series features two of our colleagues, Kelly Billins and Emma Hartharn, from Echoes Community Care in Surrey.

On Wednesday this week a follow up programme was broadcast entitled "The Science of the Young Ones". This features our residents and staff at Moorhaven in Taunton and is also well worth seeing. If you missed them do try to catch these programmes while they are available on BBC iPlayer or get hold of a recording. Congratulations to all involved.