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
Global Talking Tea Party
As part of Nutrition & Hydration Week we had a tea party. There was everything residents had asked for: cucumber sandwiches, sausage rolls, jam tarts, Victoria sponge and scones with jam and cream. Soft options were available for those who needed it. Zoe’s Cabaret came along to sing and entertain and we spent a wonderful afternoon having a tea dance. It was just what we needed!
Live Music
We are so pleased that we can welcome entertainers back in to the home. Gareth Hedges came to sing and play one afternoon and we enjoyed a couple of hours socialising, singing and eating ice cream. Going forward we will aim to invite one entertainer every week, so residents from different units can enjoy live entertainment.
There will be something for everyone, so please join in.
Fiddle Muffs
We are so grateful for the acts of kindness shown to us. This time we have received fiddle muffs all the way from Crowthorne. A very kind lady, Theresia Cooper has knitted and sent these by post. We have many busy hands at Kernow House, so we can put the fiddle muffs to good use. Thank you so much, Theresia.
Memory Box
Recently we have made a Memory Box and sent it to the children from St Catherine’s School. It is such a great idea to have a box full of artefacts, pictures and little stories. Some of the residents have one themselves, so we though the children might get a better idea of who we are, if we made one for them.
We have had a lot of fun finding things that describe who we are and how we like to spend our time.
Valentine’s Day
We have made arts and crafts and decorated the home for Valentine's Day and enjoyed a treat or two in the company of good friends.
Omph! On Demand have provided us with activity books, so we had lots of things to occupy our bodies, minds and souls with. Happy Valentine’s Day.
International Flower Day at Kernow
It was a real pleasure arranging bouquets of flowers for all the units at Kernow House on International Flower Day. Lesley, Debbie and Helen did the work and we had a good chat about all the flowers. We also sent quizzes and word searches out to everyone, so there was a little challenge too. The home is now full of fresh, colourful, wonderful smelling flowers and they bring lots of enjoyment to all.
