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
The Photobook Project
We are taking part in The Photobook Project. We are very lucky to have been invited to take part in a project, where we take photographs using a disposable camera based on three themes we have chosen. The first is ‘My Favourite Things’ and several residents have taken some very interesting pictures. These will be made into a book for us to keep. It is so great to have opportunities to work with projects like this and we look forward to seeing what we have created.
Storyteller
We had a wonderful afternoon with Alan Woolard. Alan is a storyteller, who knows fantastic tales and tells them with so much enthusiasm, that just watching him is a tale of its own. This time we learnt the importance of being yourself and being kind. There is complete silence in the room, when Alan tells a story. Just a wonderful experience for people who like a good tale and we look forward to Alan’s next visit.
Cycling without Age
Tony and John had the most fantastic experience, going for a bike ride with Cycling Without Age. First, we went for a walk along the country lanes in the picturesque village, Lewannick. That was where we met the volunteers, who organise bike rides with their trishaw. Tony and John had a wonderful time riding along the lanes, watching the beautiful surroundings with lots of spring flowers and feeling the wind in their hair. We went at a speed of 6 kilometres an hour and Tony and John both said, the ride made them feel alive. It was a fantastic afternoon.
Coronation Celebrations
The coronation of King Charles III was a historic experience. Over the bank holiday weekend we watched the Coronation on TV and could follow the ceremony with ‘The Authorised Liturgy for the Coronation Rite of His Majesty King Charles III’, which we had been sent by historian Pippa Catterall after watching a Live Event about the Coronation. The whole home came together to celebrate our new King and talk about the new era the country is entering.
We set up a photo booth where residents, visitors and staff could take a photograph with the King and his guards. A lot of fun was had making permanent memories of the King’s Coronation.
National Gardening Week
It is National Garden Week and we are doing some gardening. Some residents have been to Homeleigh Garden Centre to buy plants, seeds and compost and we have sown the seeds. We chose Nasturtium and Red Poppies and residents on Petherwin used the flowerpots we were given last year, beautifully decorated by children from St Catherine’s School. Others have pottered about outside and just enjoyed the lovely weather.
National Tea Day
We are all creatures of habit but on National Tea Day we wanted to try something different. We offered residents and staff a choice of teas, we don’t usually drink, and there was a nice selection of freshly baked buns and brownies too. We had Chai, Earl Grey, Darjeeling and green teas as well as herbal infusion teas. Residents and staff tasted some of the teas and Chai was a firm favourite although one resident thought Chai was so awful, it should only be drunk in an emergency.
