Value for Carers

Reminiscence work promotes:

• Staff ongoing professional development
• Changing staff attitudes, values and behaviour
• Individualising people through knowledge of their lives
• Enhancing caring, coping and interpersonal skills
• Assessment care planning and management care skills
• Owning emotion and using personal strengths on the job
• Acquiring historical and cultural knowledge
• Learning to collaborate with professionals, volunteers and family members
• Tutoring, supervising, consulting and mentoring
• Understanding of behaviour

(Faith Gibson 2004)