The day after my creative industries speech I was delighted to receive the following email from Care Home Owner David Crabtree. As I said to him “You inspire me back. It’s really good to know someone is listening! Please do persevere with your project”
Dear Lord Clement – Jones
By chance as I switched on my TV this morning at 6 a.m as you were delivering a speech and outlining the many resources for funding and encouragement of digital and other media start ups.
Your speech was inspiring, very informative, and extremely well delivered as I would normally have skipped the TV channel.
I have been nursing for over forty years and whilst many were spent in the field of addiction working with alcohol and drug dependents and their families, I started out and now finish my career working with people and their families who suffer from dementia.
Many are under 60 and their dementia, Korsakoffs has been brought about primarily by the addiction to alcohol.
It is in doing this work, I have been trying to source a digital watch which will alert the family member to someone leaving the home, combined with a gps tracking system which will locate the watch and it’s wearer should they go beyond a pre set parameter.
Many years ago I was a nurse in a ward where someone wondered off and despite police helicopters and tracker dogs they were found dead some three days later. The police resources we spend looking for people with dementia is very costly.
I have now sourced one in the UK but the costs may be too prohibitive at the moment for general use, which is why your speech was so informative and timely.
In working as a counsellor with addiction and families one never knows if the information you give out will be of any use, as it can take many years and attempts to get clean, as I know only too well from person experience, so the saying in AA is that a flower never sees the seed.
Today your speech has inspired me to see if the technology and start up funding for the watch is available in the UK, and I wanted to both acknowledge your work and thank you.
My best wishes to you and your family , and should you come North meeting for coffee would be a great pleasure for me.
Many thanks again for all the work you do on behalf of so many of us.
