Delighted that author Jane Risdon has joined us again for the new series of Posts from Your Archives.

Dancing Around Our Zimmer Frames with Generation Z by Jane Risdon

Since writing this piece in 2013, I have had several people read it again and mention it to me. The subject often comes up when talking about music and what life in a Residential Home might be for the Baby Boomers when they get to ‘that’ age.

I thought I’d share it again.

I hope you enjoy it and it gets you thinking.

I think we should start a movement to ensure that such places have a decent music collection available for those of us born in the 1950s and after, for whom George Formby and Pearl Johnson and Teddy Carr – wonderful in their day – is the stuff of nightmares.

At primary school we had Country dancing lessons and…