ABSTRACT
This chapter is an account of reminiscence work with the elderly in Lincolnshire, written from the perspective of a museum professional employed to lead a team that organises and delivers cultural and learning activities to specific audiences. The chapter focuses first on the apparently therapeutic benefits of the object-based reminiscence work currently taking place in elderly care-homes. Second, it describes how a multi-disciplinary team of care-workers and museum professionals are working together to develop ways of creating visual, tactile, and olfactory representations of residents’ life histories that can further improve the relationships among residents, professional carers, and family carers.
