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
National Volunteers Week
It is National Volunteers Week and we would like to say a huge Thank You to our volunteers. We are very lucky to be supported by some fantastic people, who chose to give us special time and wonderful experiences. This week we have had the company of Andrea, who exercises and chats to residents, Sheila, who supports us with hymn singing, Wendy who assists our hairdresser with beauty treatments for residents, Olive, who socialises, chats and gets involved with lots of activities and Victoria, who volunteers in all departments and does all sorts of things. We would like you to know that what you have done for us all at Kernow House this week and every week is much appreciated and makes a real difference to us all. We are not forgetting Sue and Richard and Revd. Mary Williamson, who support us with hymn singing other weeks. Thank you to all of you.
Celebrating 200 years of Cadbury
The Life Enrichment team at Barchester organise regular Live Events for the homes. These are virtual events we take part in by computer and they are live, so we can comment and ask questions. The themes are varied. There are historical talks and show-arounds interesting buildings, quizzes, bingo, virtual choir and all sorts. As it was Dementia Action Week we joined an exciting live virtual event with chocolate giant Cadbury to hear about their incredible 200 year history, have a Cadbury themed quiz and take a trip down memory lane to reminiscence on some of the nation’s most loved chocolate. And then we ate lots of chocolate, of course.
Museum trip
On a rainy afternoon, we took a trip to RAF Davidstow Moor Memorial Museum. Although we are all too young to remember how the war impacted us, we have learnt from history lessons in school, so we enjoyed seeing the items displayed. The museum is quite close to us so we will visit again with people who are interested in the history. Now that the weather is better, we go out to various places and have some fun.
International Dance Day
On International Dance Day we were joined by Nicky Brice Ballet School. Nicky is an ex-professional ballet dancer and now teaches others to dance ballet. We were delighted to watch the little ballerinas do their recitals before having a go at doing ballet exercises ourselves. The children had been given permission by St Joseph's School - Launceston to come to Kernow House and residents and staff loved watching them and taking part. We’re already looking forward to a return visit in July.
Plymouth Aquarium
We had a great day out at Plymouth Aquarium. It was so peaceful watching the fish swimming around the huge tanks. We could get right underneath some of them and were very grateful that we were safely on land, especially when the huge rays or sharks came close. After the visit we had a lovely picnic on Plymouth Hoe sitting in the warmth and comfort of the van.
Dude
Dude is a moorland pony from Hugs Foundation and he is full of love, which he shares happily. Dude came for a visit and plenty of pony cuddles. He really is a remarkable therapy pony. We could touch him and chat to him and Dude would stand very still and close to residents. It’s very impressive to see the impact of a therapy animal and especially one as special as Dude. We have a range of different animals, who visit us regularly and residents tell us they enjoy being in close contact with them.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
