Supporting Those With Early Onsite Alzeimers

[anthro-nerd]

Some 'good' news to start the morning off :-) Well done Sainsbury's.

http://www.heart.co.uk/lifestyle/sainsburys-praise-support-alzheimers-employee/

[ToraToraTora]

what about those with offsite Alzheimers?

[anthro-nerd]

TTT ???

[sunny-dave]

"Early Onset Alzheimer's"

[kvalidir]

I read that the other day and have actually made a conscious decision to switch a lot of my grocery shopping to support their stance on that. Locally they also employ a really lovely downs syndrome lady on the till, so all in all a good company, really heartwarming x

[ummmm]

Lovely story.

I also read about an elderly lady who used to go into a supermarket and read the books so the manager made her a comfy bench.

People are nice.

[sunny-dave]

... but a wonderful initiative by Sainsbury's - they deserve a big pat on the back and have undoubtedly improved the quality of life of the perosn with dementia - as well as probably delaying the progress of the illness.

[albaqwerty]

Nice one Sainsbury's.
A lovely thing to do to support an employee and her family.

[ladybirder]

Agree. A friend of mine who works for Sainsbury's has treatable but incurable cancer and she has been treated more than fairly by them. They have been very supportive and helpful.

[anthro-nerd]

Apologies for the spelling mistake!

[sunny-dave]

It didn't worry anyone, anthro - TTT was (as usual) just being TTT

SD x

[albaqwerty]

blame predictive text Anthro and don't fret about it :-D

[youngmafbog]

It is good, but I am sure they are not the only ones doing this sort of thing. I am always wary of such publicity, far better to be a silent "Philanthropist".

[gness]

I thought this was lovely.......for the lady and for her family....

Young.....I don't agree with you......the publicity shows others how folk with Alzheimer's can be helped to be the best they can for as long as they can.....that's a good thing....why hide it?

[jackthehat]

It was son of the lady in question who took to social media to praise Sainsbury's for their support of his mother.

Sainsbury's were not blowing their own trumpet and it has since emerged that as a company they quietly assist other employees who are facing 'life-difficulties'.

Well done to Sainsbury's. It seems to fly in the face of the opinions most of us hold about the big supermarkets.

[Lie-in King]

Indeed, well done Sainsbury's, a lovely story.

[naomi24]

Sainsbury’s isn’t the only company by any means that does things like this, but good for them anyway. I sort of agree with YMB insofar as I have no time for the faux beneficence of private individuals who delight in drawing attention to themselves by trumpeting their own good deeds, but I can’t blame Sainsbury’s for publicising this. They’re in business and it’s excellent PR.

[Mamyalynne]

Great to hear of good and caring people, thankfully they will always outnumber the rest.

[woofgang]

yes wonderful kindness and a great example to set. Where I live there are several group homes for people with learning difficulty. Many of them are older people who moved into the community when a large local residence closed. My local Waitrose and Tesco are wonderful with them getting the balance absolutely between helping when needed and treating them as they do all the other customers. Yes absolutely the companies must be encouraging and supporting this but I also think its a great example of kindness and care shown by individuals to strangers...maybe the world isn't going to hell in a handcart after all.

[naomi24]

Mamyalynne at 11:41, I'll second that.

[sunny-dave]

I agree, woofy - there are probably 1000 acts of kindness for every act of nastiness/ignorance/malice - but all too often we only hear about the bad things.