He couldn’t face the freezer full of homemade food she left him, but over chopping and chatting his life began to move on
When I started volunteering for Age UK’s older men’s cookery course two years ago, I thought I would just be passing on some of my cooking skills to men who had never learned how to cook. I’ve always cooked for my family and enjoy baking and thought this might be a way of giving something back. Little did I know that these men would be picking up so much more than a few kitchen skills.
There was one man in particular, Fred, whose wife had died three months previously. Fred’s doctor had encouraged him to get out more because he was feeling isolated and missing his wife, and because Fred’s wife had done all the cooking, the doctor suggested attending one of our cookery classes. I think it took a lot for him to give it a go.
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