The Night is Dark and I am Far from Home by Julia Jones
My friend Nicci Gerrard wrote a characteristically clear and compassionate article about care homes in last Sunday’s Observer newspaper. Here’s the sub-editor’s heading “ Care homes can be lonely and cruel places. But they can also be inspiring and show us how best to give hope and pleasure. ” Having failed to go gracefully into retirement at the end of 2016 the scope of John's Campaign has extended. Now we’re asking residential homes as well as hospitals to join this movement: to write a pledge, to put up a certificate, to be determinedly up-front in their welcome to families. We’re also offering them space on our website and facebook page to tell us about all the good things they do. The barrage of bad publicity and horror stories has been so intense recently, the crises in both social care and health so much on the public mind, that it’s easy to forget the impact this may be having on the morale of the many kind and decent people who work in these settings – and...