Listen again for a limted time.
Showing posts with label Age Concern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Age Concern. Show all posts
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Help older people in Northamptonshire keep well and warm in winter!
Listen again for a limted time.
Sunday, 16 September 2012
SUICIDE !!!
Talk To Someone You can talk to Samaritans at any time of the day or night. If you live outside of the UK and ROI, or wish to use a language other than English, please visit www.befrienders.org to find your nearest helpline. Common reasons to call Samaritans are:
- Relationship and family problems
- Loss, including loss of a job.
- a friend or a family member through bereavement
- Financial worries
- Job-related stress or overwork
- College or study related stress
- Body image issues
Volunteers offer support by responding to phone calls, emails and letters. Alternatively, you can often drop in to a branch to have a face to face meeting.
http://branches.samaritans.org/northampton/Jude's Story
"I honestly felt that my life was pointless. I'd convinced myself that it was. Whether you call it depression, I don't know, but I was without a doubt in my head that the only thing to do was die. The day itself, when I threw myself from a cliff, was the happiest day I'd had in years because my stupid little life was about to end. 2003, I'd written four novels, four plays and 40-odd poems and had got nowhere and I gave up. It was from that moment on where I thought, "I've failed again in my life." "All the things that I've tried to do, I've failed." I did become far too insular, far too introspective and I caved in upon myself. In the morning I did things as normal because I didn't want anyone worrying. I had breakfast as normal, left a note on the pillow, took the bus to Rottingdean, had three or four pints, walked back along the cliff, sat on a bench, drank a bottle of wine, thought about my life, watched a most spectacular sunset, because it was a beautiful day, and at dusk I climbed over the fence, had a miniature of whisky, my last cigarette and... dived. I wasn't supposed to survive. Everything was shattered. I woke up in hospital two and a half months later and thought, "I'm so useless. I can't even kill myself properly. That is failure." That period in hospital and the rehabbing at my parents' are without doubt the worst period of my whole life. Suicide causes devastation. Bewilderment and guilt is what you leave behind as a suicide, and that's a terrible legacy, it is the biggest mistake you will ever make, and suicide being what it is, it's a mistake you only get to make once. The first thing to do is realise that suicide is not an option. It will be a huge mistake. The second thing to do is talk. If you've got friends to talk to, that's terrific, but if not there are places you can walk into and say, "Help me," and they will. They want to be bothered, that's what they're there for. I didn't feel that I was in any way important enough to bother and burden people with my problems, so I didn't tell anybody. I promised everybody that I'd never be that stupid again, and that was the starting point. As soon as suicide was no longer an option, because I'd hurt too many people, I had no choice, I had to just carry on and do each day. And that's what I've been doing since and it's gone ever so well."
Samaritans Helpline
08457 90 90 90
What does Samaritans do?
Samaritans volunteers listen in confidence to anyone in any type of emotional distress, without judging or telling people what to do.Samaritans doesn’t offer advice, but by encouraging people who contact us to talk about their feelings we are able to help them explore all the options they have. Samaritans believes that given the time and space to work problems or difficulties through in confidence, people can find an inner strength and perspective which lets them find their own way forward.
See also
Age Concern,
bereavement,
Body image,
depression,
Financial,
health and well being,
Job-related,
loss of a job,
poverty,Relationship and family problems,
Suicide
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Mark Dean was joined by Liam from Age UK Northamptonshire to talk about the new Gardening Service which is available to elderly people. They also talk about how Age UK help people across the county, how you can donate & what events are coming up. Listen to find out all the information.
Listen again service for this item has ended.
New gardening service has been launched by Age UK Northamptonshire
Age UK Northamptonshire home page
See also Age Concern Age UK Northamptonshire growing old isn't easy Old Lady stops robbery at Jewellers Northampton Feb 2011
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Age Concern
(Now known as AGE UK)
Once we were young -
Age Concern campaign video
Help and information
Age Concern Corby Chisholm House
Rooms 225-227
Queens Square
CORBY
Northamptonshire
NN17 1PD
Tel: 01536 260541
View map
Age Concern Grendon
Woodlands
4 The Knoll
Grendon
NORTHAMPTON
NN7 1JG
Tel: 01933 666190
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Age Concern Northamptonshire
31 Billing Road
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 5DQ
Tel: 01604 611200
Fax: 01604 611201 Email: Northamptonshire@acnorthants.org.uk
http://www.acnorthants.org.uk/
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Age Concern Wellingborough
c/o 50 Elizabeth Way
Earls Barton
NORTHAMPTON
NN6 0HP
Tel: 01604 811588
View map
Related Links
Age Concern
Northamptonshire
INSPIRATION FM RADIO
SUPPORTS
HEALTH AND WELL BEING.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Age Concern
Once we were young -
Age Concern campaign video
Help and information
Age Concern Corby Chisholm House
Rooms 225-227
Queens Square
CORBY
Northamptonshire
NN17 1PD
Tel: 01536 260541
View map
Age Concern Grendon
Woodlands
4 The Knoll
Grendon
NORTHAMPTON
NN7 1JG
Tel: 01933 666190
View map
Age Concern Northamptonshire
31 Billing Road
NORTHAMPTON
NN1 5DQ
Tel: 01604 611200
Fax: 01604 611201 Email: Northamptonshire@acnorthants.org.uk
http://www.acnorthants.org.uk/
View map
Age Concern Wellingborough
c/o 50 Elizabeth Way
Earls Barton
NORTHAMPTON
NN6 0HP
Tel: 01604 811588
View map
Related Links
Age Concern
Northamptonshire
INSPIRATION FM RADIO
SUPPORTS
HEALTH AND WELL BEING.
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Poem: Look At Me Nurse's...See ME!
When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was wrongly assumed that she had nothing left of any value.
But later, when the nurses were going through her meagre possessions, they found this poem.
Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.
Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.
What do you see, nurses, what do you see,
what are you thinking when you're looking at me?
A crabby old woman, not very wise,
uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes.
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
when you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try?"
Who seems not to notice the things that you do,
and forever is losing a stocking or shoe.
Who, resisting or not, lets you do as you will
with bathing and feeding, the long day to fill.
Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse; you're not looking at me.
Look At Me!
I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still,
as I use at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten with a father and mother,
brothers and sisters, who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,
dreaming that soon a lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at twenty- my heart gives a leap,
remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own
who need me to guide and a secure happy home.
A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,
bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty my young sons have grown and are gone,
but my man's beside me to see I don't mourn.
At fifty once more babies play round my knee,
again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead;
I look at the future, I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own,
and I think of the years and the love that I've known.
I'm now an old woman and nature is cruel;
'tis jest to make old age look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles, grace and vigor depart,
there is now a stone where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,
and now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remember the pain,
and I'm loving and living life over again.
I think of the years; all too few. Gone too fast,
and accept the stark fact that nothing can last.
So open your eyes, nurses, open and see,
not a crabby old woman; look closer- see ME!!
Remember this when you interact with an elderly person- because we'll all be there some day.
SEE ALSO
http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/default.asp
And
http://inspirationfmradiojerrysblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/ageism-are-you-over-age-and-feel.html#links
INSPIRATION FM RADIO
SUPPORTS
HEALTH AND WELL BEING.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
SUICIDE !!!
Talk To Someone You can talk to Samaritans at any time of the day or night. If you live outside of the UK and ROI, or wish to use a language other than English, please visit www.befrienders.org to find your nearest helpline. Common reasons to call Samaritans are:
- Relationship and family problems
- Loss, including loss of a job.
- a friend or a family member through bereavement
- Financial worries
- Job-related stress or overwork
- College or study related stress
- Body image issues
Volunteers offer support by responding to phone calls, emails and letters. Alternatively, you can often drop in to a branch to have a face to face meeting.
Jude's Story
"I honestly felt that my life was pointless. I'd convinced myself that it was. Whether you call it depression, I don't know, but I was without a doubt in my head that the only thing to do was die. The day itself, when I threw myself from a cliff, was the happiest day I'd had in years because my stupid little life was about to end. 2003, I'd written four novels, four plays and 40-odd poems and had got nowhere and I gave up. It was from that moment on where I thought, "I've failed again in my life." "All the things that I've tried to do, I've failed." I did become far too insular, far too introspective and I caved in upon myself. In the morning I did things as normal because I didn't want anyone worrying. I had breakfast as normal, left a note on the pillow, took the bus to Rottingdean, had three or four pints, walked back along the cliff, sat on a bench, drank a bottle of wine, thought about my life, watched a most spectacular sunset, because it was a beautiful day, and at dusk I climbed over the fence, had a miniature of whisky, my last cigarette and... dived. I wasn't supposed to survive. Everything was shattered. I woke up in hospital two and a half months later and thought, "I'm so useless. I can't even kill myself properly. That is failure." That period in hospital and the rehabbing at my parents' are without doubt the worst period of my whole life. Suicide causes devastation. Bewilderment and guilt is what you leave behind as a suicide, and that's a terrible legacy, it is the biggest mistake you will ever make, and suicide being what it is, it's a mistake you only get to make once. The first thing to do is realise that suicide is not an option. It will be a huge mistake. The second thing to do is talk. If you've got friends to talk to, that's terrific, but if not there are places you can walk into and say, "Help me," and they will. They want to be bothered, that's what they're there for. I didn't feel that I was in any way important enough to bother and burden people with my problems, so I didn't tell anybody. I promised everybody that I'd never be that stupid again, and that was the starting point. As soon as suicide was no longer an option, because I'd hurt too many people, I had no choice, I had to just carry on and do each day. And that's what I've been doing since and it's gone ever so well."
Samaritans Helpline
08457 90 90 90
What does Samaritans do?
Samaritans volunteers listen in confidence to anyone in any type of emotional distress, without judging or telling people what to do.Samaritans doesn’t offer advice, but by encouraging people who contact us to talk about their feelings we are able to help them explore all the options they have. Samaritans believes that given the time and space to work problems or difficulties through in confidence, people can find an inner strength and perspective which lets them find their own way forward. More details
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