Norman McNamara Founder of the Purple Angel Foundation

All Home Care Matters

Enriched Life Home Care Services

Alzheimers, Caregiver, Healthcare, Homecare, Health, Dementia, Health & Fitness, Care, Education

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Norman McNamara the founder of the Purple Angel Foundation as our guest to the show.

About Norman McNamara & the Purple Angel Foundation:

The Purple Angel was born on 12th January 2012. It was formed as a steering group to try and make Torbay the first dementia-fNorrm began by asking his local shop staff to read 2 pieces of information so that they could better support people with dementia and their carers. He wrote the “Guide to Understanding Dementia” and put that together with “What is Dementia” written by our Alzheimer’s Society. Two weeks later he returned and, if staff had read, awarded a Purple Angel Logo for their window.

Through Facebook, Norrm met many who wanted to join in. The purple angel was named because Norrm fondly refers to his wife Elaine as “his angel”!

On the 16th of November, 2013, the first 50 worldwide ambassadors were inaugurated in Paignton, Devon, UK. There are now well over 1000 ambassadors, all with their own teams of volunteer-friendly resorts in the country.

Norman McNamara a resident of Torbay, Devon, UK was diagnosed with dementia at only 50 years of age. Whilst out shopping one day he was rudely spoken to by a shopkeeper and decided to change the way people see dementia and treat others.

Many towns in the UK began raising awareness with The Purple Angel, taking the information to their local shops and businesses. On a Facebook “Dementia Aware” page many others began to form dementia-friendly communities and were inspired by the success of the project.

Many Purple Angel Dementia Action Alliances now have their own steering groups and the word is spreading to other areas. It became apparent that many other organizations needed to be included such as hospitals, first responders, rescue services, schools, scouts, etc. and resources were developed to address different situations. A book was written for young school children by Max Wallack in the USA and is being translated into other languages by Purple Angel ambassadors and talks held in schools so that our young can grow up understanding dementia.

In places new memory cafes were organised and events took place across the world for the new Dementia Awareness Day fundraising for dementia charities all year.

Many countries across the globe joined in the campaign and Dementia Friendly Communities started up together with Memory Cafes and other initiatives.

Connect with Norman McNamara and the Purple Angel Foundation:

Official Website for the Purple Angel Foundation:

https://purpleangel-global.com/

Visit the Official Website for Lance A. Slatton:

https://www.lanceaslatton.com

Visit the Official Website for All Home Care Matters:

https://www.allhomecarematters.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions
0:06.8	on important age-related matters and topics.
0:10.1	Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services,
0:13.2	the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by top rated local.
0:17.6	Hello! Hello and welcome back to all Home Care Matters. If this is your first
0:27.9	time visiting us here at the show we want to say thank you for taking time
0:31.0	out to be with us today.
0:32.7	We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is,
0:35.8	and that's why we try and make each episode here.
0:37.9	At all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you.
0:41.8	Today, I am very honored to welcome a remarkable person.
0:45.9	Norman Norms McNamara, the founder of Purple Angel. Welcome, Norms.
0:54.0	How are you today?
0:55.0	I'm absolutely fine, thank you, Lance, thank you for asking me to be here to know.
1:00.0	Our pleasure.
1:01.0	Well, you know, Norms, you're doing such tremendous work over in the UK, but now in like 50 other countries with the Purple Angel Foundation.
1:11.0	What exactly prompted you to create this tremendous organization?
1:17.0	Well, when I was first diagnosed, I was told by my consultant to either use it or lose it and that was it. I was told by by and nothing else.
1:32.0	And if it wasn't for having a wife it was a career or a caregiver as you say in America
1:38.0	for over 30 years who knew a way around the system, we would have been lost.
1:45.0	So I thought, well, what about all those of the people that's been lost?
1:49.0	What about the people that aren't as lucky as me that don't live with a caregiver, you know who did it as a professional job.
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