Moore, Geraldine
2011 "Moore, Geraldine", 2011, HistoryTalk She was about 15 years old when the family moved to Hanwell and started work in a grocery store on seven pounds a week. She also worked at British Home Stores in Ealing and Mothercare in Oxford Street. She notes how she had to juggle work with chi...
| Institution: | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London
2011
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/CB87AE44-B630-4120-B74B-EF501754F986 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F18A549B-0A98-4C4F-A8E0-D73794761187 |
| Summary: | 2011
"Moore, Geraldine", 2011, HistoryTalk
She was about 15 years old when the family moved to Hanwell and started work in a grocery store on seven pounds a week. She also worked at British Home Stores in Ealing and Mothercare in Oxford Street. She notes how she had to juggle work with childcare in these years. Following help with Careers Advice she began work with older people in Ealing Broadway. Her new career in this sector was very important and enjoyable and she gained promotion, running various catering outlets in Perivale near the Hoover factory. In 2001 she started work in the Blenheim Care centre in Ruislip (Southern Cross) working with people with dementia. She notes the deterioration in care for older people when services were contracted out to private companies and outlines the system that has developed in recent years. She describes the training and other aspects of care and the issues surrounding dementia. She points out that her ethos is that she works for older people, not a particular company. Geraldine explains many aspects of dementia care including the pay, conditions and day to day work activities using reminiscence with older people.
In this clip she describes her first experience of a dementia ward, how rewarding the work was and how she has been there ever since.
Click on the pdf icon to read the entire transcript or click on the mp3 icon to hear a clip of the interview. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | Photograph TEXT |