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
Community Choirs
Launceston Male Voice Choir visited us to sing summer songs and we were able to join in with them. Later on residents and staff enjoyed listening to, and singing along with Encore Singing Group who entertained us with some of the older popular well-known tunes. Both groups are from our local community and visit us during the year. Being able to work with people in our community is great and we appreciate the visits hugely. Thank you for paying us a visit and we look forward to having you back later in the year.
Drums for fun
We had a great afternoon with Drums4Fun when Graham came with his percussion workshop. There was drumming, shaking of jingle bells and maracas as well as lots of singing and dancing. It is just possible, that we have the best band in the whole world here at Kernow, if enthusiasm and effort is what makes a great band. One visitor commented that it was just like New Year’s Eve when everyone joined in ‘We Will rock you’. Great fun.
Trip Out
On a wet misty afternoon we took a trip to Jamaica Inn to visit the Daphne Du Maurier Museum and the Smugglers Museum. We often go out on trips and this time we had an outing to a place of historic interest. We have read extracts from Daphne Du Maurier’s book ‘Jamaica Inn’ so we decided to go to the famous inn. Not everywhere is accessible for wheelchair users and especially not when the building is over 300 years old so a couple of volunteers came for a trip to find out if this is somewhere we can go again. It was a great success. After exploring the museums, we drove around Colliford lake to get a real feeling of the moor and we saw some wonderful views. We will definitely return again and make more outings to this historical inn.
Jumping Out Jazz Duo
Jumping Out Jazz Duo came to play and sing commercial jazz for us. We had a great afternoon singing and dancing together. It’s wonderful when we are able to make friends with people who live on other units as well as visiting relatives. The music was fantastic as always and we look forward to Jumping Out coming back again.
Fairground Trip
We have regular trips out and this time a few residents spent a morning at Dingles Fairground Museum. We saw lots of old fairground rides, games and all sorts and we could reminisce about visiting the fairground, when we were a lot younger. The music and smell made it just like we remembered, spending happy days at the fairground although many of the rides were much older than we are. We even had a chance to go on some of the old rides. It was a lot of fun. We offer trips out to places of interest and there are many of them, where we live.
Namaste
We have regular Namaste sessions on all units. We set up a selection of sensory equipment: light projectors, diffusers with essential oil, LED candles and we find relaxing moving images on TV with calming music. Louise, our hairdresser, comes along and offers hand massages to the residents, who enjoy that. It is just wonderful and very relaxing.
