The Parish of St John Mary Vianney celebrated the gifts that older parishioners bring as part of the International Day of Older People by hosting a simple “Tea, Cake and Conversation” afternoon. Every year, there is a different theme and in 2017 the theme was “Stepping into the Future: Tapping… Continue reading
Leeds Irish Health & Homes want to highlight their Aran Service AranFlyerWEB final version December 8th 2016 which is a home support service for people with dementia. The service offers a much-needed respite for carers and they work with the person with memory loss on a ‘doing with’ rather than ‘doing… Continue reading
Leeds Older People’s Forum (LOPF), Leeds City Council and the Centre for Ageing Better are joining together in a new five year partnership to develop and share innovate approaches to tackle social, economic and health inequalities in later life. Growing Old Grace-fully were pleased to be there at the launch of… Continue reading
I was delighted to be invited to the First Anniversary Celebration of the Parish of St Clare Relax and Craft Group yesterday. Fr Stephen celebrated Mass and Sr Catherine gave a reflection starting with the Gospel reading – the story of Martha and Mary. Sr Catherine said the Relax and… Continue reading
The Church is possibly one of the few places in our society where different generations can mix, outside our families. Older people have a vital role in supporting and encouraging younger generations to encounter, develop and deepen a relationship – with each other and with God. Leeds Older Peoples’… Continue reading
The Sacred Heart & St Joseph in Hemsworth is now the 6th Parish in our Diocese to start the process of becoming a dementia friendly parish. Thank you to everyone who attended ‘Becoming a Dementia Friendly Parish’ session on Wednesday 27th September. Growing Old Grace-fully was given such a warm welcome, which… Continue reading
International Day of Older People is celebrated worldwide on the 1 October each year. Leeds Older People’s Forum supports the Day by stretching the celebration out over a week to allow organisations to hold events to celebrate the contribution that older people make to the city. Here is the link… Continue reading
People from around the Harrogate Deanery came to explore our new Guide for parishes this week at St Mary’s in Knaresborough. The evening started with an introduction about this gift of years we have now – as people are living longer – and went on to think about what we… Continue reading
We were delighted to be invited to present our new Guide to the members of The Grail Society at their AGM this month. The generous support of The Grail helped to fund the development of a professionally presented resource and we are very grateful for that. To help open the… Continue reading
Radio 4 hosted a discussion programme last week about our ageing world which raised many interesting questions, including at what age can we really be said to be old. The discussion was led by Professor Sarah Harper, a gerontologist, and Bishop Richard Holloway of Edinburgh and you can hear it… Continue reading
