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
Employee of the Month - June
A relative nominated Mary Selvi Rajian and Vivian Labial for the June Employee of the Month award, saying that she could not nominate one without the other. Mary and Vivian were praised for being dependable and trustworthy and the person nominating them said they should have won for the past 3 years, because they're that good.
10 Years at Barchester
Karen Ives was presented with her 10 year Long Service Award by our Regional Director, Alyson Murphy. Karen started out working as a Carer in another Barchester home, where she gained her NVQ in Health & Social Care. She went on to become the Home Trainer at Tyspane and is now working as an Operational Trainer. Well done to you, Karen!
Celebrating Success
At Kernow House, we are very fortunate to have some staff who have been with us for such a long time. Pictured is Careen Harris presenting Administrator, Yvonne Emmins, with her 10 year Long Service Award.
On another occasion Sandy Hart, our Memory Lane Coordinator, and Care Assistant, Tess Allen, were both presented with their 25 year Long Service Award.
Many congratulations to all of you and well done!
Senior Health & Fitness Day
We marked this day by getting lots of new games in and playing throughout the home. It’s quite amazing how much exercise one can have whilst having fun. Of course, we already knew this, because we have a weekly Flexercise class, where we exercise and have a laugh. It’s very popular and anyone can join in!
We also offer other opportunities to exercise, including swimming in a nearby hydrotherapy pool, doing exercises with our physiotherapist, joining a weekly sports event in our local leisure centre or going out for a walk. It’s all good fun!
Out & About
Being in beautiful Cornwall during the recent lovely weather has been wonderful. We go out as much as we possibly can, sometimes to the seaside, out for lunch or to the moors, but these photos are from a trip to Lanhydrock. We took a picnic and had a joyful day walking around the gardens, looking at rhododendrons and azaleas in bloom and were delighted when we stumbled across this beautiful bluebell woodland.
Employee of the Month - May
Congratulations to Andrew Fuge, who has been named as our Employee of the Month for May.
