Personal Insights: Henry Delaney - An ordinary man who showed we have much to learn from our elders

Nursing home manager and owner, Joseph Peters, pays tribute to one of his former residents, Henry Delaney, and reveals how his late friend epitomised what can and should be learned from our elders in anxious and changed times.

Henry Delaney, front, pictured at a Nursing Home of Ireland awards ceremony

Henry Delaney passed away recently but he epitomised the qualities of the generation who live in our nursing homes and who have made the difficult transition from living at home to a nursing home and who rediscover that they can still find peace and contentment in their new environment.

Henry exemplified appreciation for the simplicity of the world around us. The values he held dear are those cherished by nursing home residents across the country: an appreciation for the natural world, our heritage, our history.