Margaret is retired but firmly busy! She has an MSc in Education and many years of teaching practice; she also worked for the National Foundation for Educational Research as a Senior Research Officer. Her career has brought her into contact with deafness and blindness on a number of occasions.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it is no surprise that Margaret now devotes considerable time and effort as a volunteer supporting older people, older blind people, and more recently older deafblind people through our sister In Good Hands (IGH) project.<\/p>\n
Margaret received our deafblind awareness and deafblind guiding training in August 2012. Almost immediately and quite by chance she was buddied with a deafblind adult in her home area. \u201cThe training gave me the confidence and practical skills to guide and support a deafblind adult. I didn\u2019t know a lot about deafness prior to the training and that also helped.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough my experience at the local\u00a0blind association\u00a0and with the skills from the training I now work with a man who has been blind since childhood. His hearing is also getting worse to the extent that he now wears a hearing aid and has a cochlear implant. His wife works tirelessly to support him and in a way I hope the time I give helps them both. They are a wonderful couple.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Age UK I support older people who are at risk of becoming isolated. Many have some degree of hearing or sight difficulty. I hope that the deafblind training I received can also benefit the people at Age UK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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