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
Therapy Ponies
Sweetpea and Mai are two miniature Shetland Ponies who came to visit us in the garden. We absolutely loved having the therapy ponies so close by so we could pet them and do a little horse whispering. The ponies came from Collywood Therapy Ponies, and we hope they will be able to come indoors when they visit next.
National Welsh Rarebit Day
We had a bit of a party in the car park when Zoe came to sing her cabaret for us. It was National Welsh Rarebit Day, so we took the pub outside and had a bit of what we fancied to drink, as well as some very tasty Welsh Rarebit. The sun came out and it was a really lovely afternoon!
Pen Pals
We have received another big envelope full of letters written by pupils at St Catherine’s Primary School. Over the past school year, we have been pen pals with them and now we can’t wait for their letters to arrive. The children used to visit Petherwin, but now their letters are shared around the home. Thank you so much to all the children and teachers at St Catherine’s. We love getting post from you!
Drums4Fun
We have new entertainers at Kernow House and are having lots of fun with new experiences. Drums4Fun came to do a Percussion Experience Workshop with us. There was lots of music, drumming, shaking jingle bells, singing, dancing and laughter.
International Beer Day
A good selection of international beer, combined with travel magazines showing images from all over the world, gave us a good opportunity to go on a virtual holiday or remember those we have had. We even had a postcard of kindness sent to us from a little girl remembering her own holiday in New York.
Scentscapes
The idea of recalling memories through the sense of smell is sometimes done by using scentscapes. We have made our own by collecting herbs and flowers in the gardens and making little posies of them. Residents enjoyed smelling them and thinking of memories attached to each posy. Lavender reminded many of their mothers’ perfume while the fragrant smell of rosemary reminded many of roast lamb.
