Abstract
> ‘In the UK, 3.8 older people live alone ... Depression affects 22% of men and 28% of women aged 65 or over.’ 1 Monmouth is an 8000-strong community on the borders of Wales and England. Geography and history funnel you from your wooded drive along the Wye across a solid stone bridge beneath the 1067 Norman fortress, its stones familiar with the ever fluid times and politics in the lives and community nestled at this confluence of water. Through 20 stitched portraits of older people, and a 13-minute film Thursday Afternoons, Georgie Meadows and Monmouth open their hearts, and rekindle yours, to the stories and vitality that still live beneath the dulled wrinkles and fraying minds of the older population we can struggle to know how to engage with, or care for with local care pathways. Over recent years so much shame and blame, pointing and pain, has spilled through my radio speakers and over the broadsheets, that it took these works of art to highlight how my vision for holistic elderly care has regressed, so that …
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