TUESDAY, 18 APRIL, 2017

EMBARGOED UNTIL PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: 2.30PM, WEDNESDAY, 19 APRIL, 2017, CRAIGIEKNOWES CARE HOME, CRAIGIE KNOWES ROAD, PERTH OR 10:30AM, FRIDAY, 21 APRIL, THE GATEWAY DAY CARE CENTRE, NORTH METHVEN STREET, PERTH

Performance tour for care home residents in Perth & Kinross

Care home residents will get the opportunity to enjoy a storytelling performance during a tour across Perth & Kinross.

The ‘Tales of a Grandson’ show, created and performed by professional storyteller Andy Cannon and cellist Wendy Weatherby, has been inspired by Walter Scott’s books ‘Tales of a Grandfather.’

The performance aims to give intergenerational audiences the opportunity to engage with the story and re-connect with the people, events, landscape and arts of Scotland.

The show is currently touring 18 care homes and day care services across Perth & Kinross throughout April.

The performance includes set and props designed to invoke memories and includes opportunities to dance, sing, reminisce and share stories with the performers.

The tour provides creative activity that benefits participants’ physical and mental health and wellbeing. The performance also aims to promote creative thinking, memory and concentration by participating in storytelling and music activities.

Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership Falls Service Manager Carolyn Wilson said, “We are absolutely delighted that care home residents across Perth & Kinross have had this fantastic opportunity to enjoy an outstanding performance performed within their home.

“Residents have been transported back in time to remember Scotland’s past as it was and re-connect with the people, events, landscape and arts that have shaped Scotland.”

Contact:

Debbie Huband

NHS Tayside Communications

(01382) 424138

communications.tayside@nhs.net

Notes to Editors

Health and social care services in Perth and Kinross are now delivered by the Perth and Kinross Health and Social Care Partnership. Integration of these services is part of the Scottish Government’s programme of reform to improve outcomes for adults who use health and social care services. It is a direct response to what people have told us they want. We know that people want to receive care and support in, or near to, their own home, and for that support to feel seamless when different services are involved.

The Partnership will tailor services to meet the particular needs of individual local communities. Health and social care integration will mean changing the way we support and deliver health and social care services, focusing on the important role individuals, communities and third sector have in supporting healthy and independent lives.

You can find out more about Health and Social Care Integration in Perth and Kinross here:

http://www.pkc.gov.uk/integration

http://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/OurServicesA-Z/HealthandSocialCareIntegration/index.htm