HeyJaredBattles Beyond the Battlefield
These stories are based on interviews I recorded in dementia care homes throughout the UK.
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A Blast from the past (opens the original)
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Twenty-odd years ago, when I started working in dementia care homes, reminiscence rooms were the flavour of the month.I worked in a young-onset dementia unit, where the youngest resident was in his forties and the oldest about sixty. Our reminiscence room contained an ancient typewriter, a Victorian dinner service, a gas mask and various other objects from a bygone age. Most of it came from a time before many of the residents were born.The idea was simple enough. The objects were supposed to pro
I Had to be Someone Else (opens the original)
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I’d forgotten about this interview until I came across it yesterday. May had recently moved into the care home where I was running a series of artist residencies, having been transferred when another home closed. She arrived towards the end of the project, so I only knew her briefly. I remember her as a small, cheerful, dark-haired woman who was always happy to help with little jobs around the home, and who seemed to enjoy sitting for a portrait.Reading her interview again, though, what struck m
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