Activities at Kernow House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators organise varied and regular events. The activities that take place depend on what our residents tell us they are interested in and the feedback we get from their families. We currently have pop-up cafes where we socialise and maybe visit the hairdresser. We have regular live music events, a storyteller and visits from animals and we are often joined by families or friends during our social activities where they are always most welcome.
Living in Cornwall the surrounding countryside offers many beauty spots and we often have trips out to wherever our residents would like to go. At other times a walk to nearby shops or cafes is what we enjoy.
Louise is our hairdresser and she is with us twice a week. Louise also supports us during our weekly Namaste sessions where she offers hand massages in a relaxing environment. Every Thursday afternoon we have a time of worship supported by our local community. Our ice cream van, Kernow Kones, and our mobile pub, Kernow Keg, also make a weekly appearance. We have monthly clubs, when we play bingo or watch a film in our pop-up cinema. Residents on all units are invited to take part in a monthly Resident’s Meeting and they tell us what they would like.
Apart from these regular events, we also celebrate special occasions and often have musical entertainers to visit but we also make our own fun. All staff take part in fancy dress or charity events that we support and often what we do evolves through interaction between residents and care or activity staff. All this makes Kernow House a vibrant place to be where things happen both as group activities as well as on an individual level.
Bea Porup
Bea has many years of experience working in elderly care and both experience and training in dementia care. She has also worked extensively with people with Huntington's disease. Bea works closely with Sue, Jackie and our management team, nurses, carers and kitchen team to ensure our home has a vibrant environment with lots of events happening and varied opportunities for having both new and familiar experiences, making sure the people living here lead a rich and fulfilling life.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Kernow House Care Home
Summer Garden Opening
We combined Care Home Open Day with a Summer Fair, and invited our mayor, Dave Gordon to open our new sensory garden. He gave a speech and cut a ribbon, so now the garden is open for everyone to enjoy.
We had a lovely day in our carpark where we had a BBQ, cream teas, Kernow kones, stalls and games, raising money for The Sowenna Appeal, which was our chosen charity. Gareth Hedges came to play live music for us. We raised £411.72. A big thank you to everyone who supported our event.
Magic Table
We have a magic table! A projector displays light animations on to a table. These are interactive games specifically designed for people with mid-to-late stage dementia and we are looking forward to learning how to use all the games. Here’s one, where we can grow beautiful flowers by touching the images. A great way to reminisce and spend time together while having a good time.
Summer Newsletter
Celebrating 15 Years
Charlene Holden received a long service award recently, which was presented by operations manager, Nicky Vaughan. Charlene works as a Housekeeping Assistant, and has done so for the past 15 years. She received a Barchester pin, a £250 Love2Shop voucher and a bunch of flowers to show our appreciation.
Working with the Community
International Museum Day inspired us to contact our local museum to ask if we could borrow some items. We have used these to do intergenerational work with the local primary school that visits us every week, and it has been a great success.
The everyday objects the residents remember from years gone by brought back many memories, and we have had lots of laughs, particularly when Will, our Admin Assistant, dressed up in the NHS glasses, wearing a bowler hat and attempted to make a phone call on the old telephone.
Volunteer Appreciation
We have a number of volunteers at Kernow who help to enrich our lives. Sue, whose mother was a resident here for some years, now helps out at our pop-up café. Sue is a keen knitter and has made lots of cuddly toys, which she sells at Kernow.
Our volunteers helped to put on a craft sale and raised money to buy an optic fibre waterfall to replace the one we had. We will use it during sensory sessions throughout the home.
The Methodist community supported us with organists, singers and preachers, who hold a weekly meeting here, and Wendy helps the hairdresser out.
We are very grateful for everything our volunteers do!
