The Christmas holidays are over and everywhere in the country most of us were lying on the sofa chewing fradga before the first day of work in about two weeks.
Sleep-in mornings where one paws up in cozy slippers and a bathrobe and then enjoys a good breakfast with snowflakes dangling outside the window, crisp jogging trips outside in the fresh air, pre-drinks and snacks EVERY DAY at 5 p.m. sharp, sauna evenings and exciting documentary film evenings – all that will now be replaced by to get up early, drop kids off at preschool, squash the stress ball at work while the boss yells in your ear, your lover wants a divorce and the dripping faucet you couldn’t fix has now contributed to a water leak so you now have to break up the entire floor at home – and it won’t be free.
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In summary, you can say that reality really did a “scare jump” on all of us after the holiday.
But then let me tell you that there is one thing that can properly embalm your soul this January.
Therefore, everyone should see SVT’s Lerin at the nursing home
It was during Tuesday that I stumbled across SVT’s new production Lerin at the nursing home where Lars Lerin and his partner Manoel “Junior” Marques meets eight elderly people with various dementias and other illnesses to paint, have coffee, socialize and go on excursions.
The program also features the relatives of the elderly. There are many common denominators between people out in the cabins and family members who get to see their relatives forget more and more up close.
– Yes, I don’t really remember how old I am, says one of the older profiles, but is then forced by his relatives to finally guess his age.
Could “Lerin at the elderly home” be the best program of the year? Image source: SVT
Then we come to the painting studio.
Namely, the profiles in the series are supposed to paint some things they remember. Among other things from his childhood.
Just when Lars Lerin sits and talks with the elderly who are struggling with their memory and their feelings about aging, something happens.
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There is laughter. It’s a joke. The difficult is mixed with a humanity and warmth. The relatives also get to see others in the same situation, which makes them feel that they are – yes, less alone.
But there is something about Lars Lerin in particular. I love him? He would get to throw tomatoes at me but I still wanted to give him a big, warm hug for the way he treats people.
From Lerin at the nursing home. Image source: SVT
However, it does not stop here.
It also gets personal on a rather deep level between Lars Lerin and Manoel “Junior” Marques.
Are Lars Lerin’s children adopted? So he answers
Lars is 70 years old and together he and Junior have four children. The sons Raphael and Gabrielas well as the twin daughters Iris and Gerda.
Some have wondered whether the children are adopted. And Lerin answered that in SVT’s interview program Frågan er fri.
– You know, we haven’t adopted. So the thing about how the children came to be and such, we have decided, Junior and I, that we should not talk about that. But when the children later become adults, they can tell the story themselves instead, Lerin said then.
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Junior tells the program that he thinks that the Swedes’ way of taking care of the elderly does not match his culture in Brazil at all.
– I will not want Lars to grow old in a home. If he pees then I have to change his diaper. Or if he needs to be fed. But in my culture, you don’t send your elderly off to a home, you take care of them at home, he says.
Yes, it’s high and it’s low. And for all these scenes, the geniuses behind the levers have cut in powerful music, great songs and images from the past.
The question I ask myself and you is: Can Lerin at the nursing home be the best program of the year?
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