PERSONA: Lily Greenwood

Name: Lily Greenwood

Age: 79 (Born in January 1928)

Family: Widowed and lives alone in a small one bedroom-ed flat with her pet cat Whisky in Birmingham. She has one son Jack, who lives in London with his wife Mary. They have three children: Jennifer (25) , Mark (22) and Kate (20). Jack works for a big company and has to travel abroad for his job quite a lot. Mary is a teacher at a secondary school. Mark and Kate are at University in Liverpool and Birmingham respectively, Jennifer is working in Manchester. Jack and Mary try to visit once a month. Kate is quite close so tries to visit once every two weeks.

Mobility/Health Problems: Wears glasses, has a bad back so she can't bend down. Slight arthritis in her fingers.

Hobbies: Baking, Knitting, Bingo, Helping other people.

Likes: Her independence, going for walks, visiting her grandchildren.

Dislikes: Rainy weather and rudeness.

Behaviour Patterns: She is a member of a local WI, and regularly attends meetings and fundraisers. She always has a cake for visitors. She goes to church on Sundays, and collects her pension on Tuesdays.

Day to Day Life: Lily has quite a set routine, which only varies slightly each day. She wakes at 6 o’clock, and feeds the cat, making herself breakfast afterwards. At 8 o’clock, she goes for a walk to the park. On her way home, she will occasionally stop on the High Street to do her shopping.

Lunch is at 12, accompanied by tea and a slice of cake afterwards. Her afternoons are filled either with going out to attend WI meetings or events, or she will spend the afternoon at home, baking, reading or watching the afternoon matinee film on television. She has a particular love of black and white musicals.

She eats her dinner at 5pm on the dot, and watches a bit more television in the evenings. Her son tends to ring her at 7, after which she goes to bed and read before getting sleep.

Back Story:
Lily was born Lily Potter in London, and was evacuated when she was 11 to a village outside Birmingham with her elder sister Mary. After the war, their mother moved out to join them. Lily met John Greenwood when she was 21 working at a small accounting firm as a secretary. He worked in a big factory. They were married when Lily was 23 in 1951. When she was 25, they had a son whom they named Jack. John tragically died when she was 30 in an accident at the factory. She never remarried but returned to work at the same job until she was 60 in order to support herself and her son.

Technical Expertise
Lily has worked as a secretary for many years, so she has good typing skills. Being an independent woman means she is willing to learn how to do things for herself. She is a dab hand at programming the video! Her granddaughter Kate has taught her how to use the computer for basic tasks such as email and typing but she does not possess one of her own.

Goals
Lily's goals in life are few but simple:

• To continue to live independently in her own home
• To see her grandchildren married
• To help people in the community, specifically single mothers, in ways where she had to do things for herself.
  

I've edited it a bit from earlier to flesh out the family a bit. What do you think? I can always make her younger and the family younger?