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
Long Service Award
Vivian Labial works as a carer at Kernow House and has done so for 10 years. She was presented with her Long Service pin and had a lovely bunch of spring flowers in addition to her £250 Love2shop voucher by Leigh Stanley, who is our clinical lead for dementia services. Vivian works on Petherwin unit and is a devoted carer. We caught her in the middle of breakfast and surprised her. Congratulations, Vivian!
National Storytelling Week
We have come to really love and look forward to the regular visits from Jill Lamede, the Tintagel Storyteller. As it was National Storytelling Week, she paid us a visit, and this time she told us about the dragon that lives in Tintagel and sits on the old post office roof. That is why the roof sags so much!
It is a real joy to listen to Jill’s stories and, within minutes, she has us all listening carefully. We enjoyed a relaxing afternoon in good company, and our imagination was well fed. We have already booked the next visit from Jill.
A Lovely Surprise
We were very happily surprised when the manager from Aldi in Bodmin came knocking on our doors with armfuls of surplus tulips. It was as if spring had come early!
We divided the hundreds of flowers and displayed them throughout the home, and they have given us a lot of pleasure.
Thank you very much, Aldi! A wise lady even gave us a good old housekeeping tip of dropping a copper coin into the vases to make the tulips stand erect – and it seems to work!
A Surprise Visitor
We always welcome visitors, but we were a little surprised to find this lady in our car park. She appeared to be reading our sign to see if she had come to the right place, and when we went out to see if we could help her (actually, to try and catch her), she changed her mind and ran off. It turned out that there was a farmer with his dog in hot pursuit of her and she was safely returned to where she came from.
It's Snowing!
It doesn’t often snow where we are, so we were quite excited when it came down heavy. Some residents looked out longingly, but if you can’t get out to build a snowman, then why not bring the snow indoors and build the snowman in comfort? That is exactly what we did, and it was a great experience!
National Puzzle Day
Sometimes we mark the themed days of the year, so on National Puzzle Day, we found various puzzles and had a go at solving some of them. The school children visited and they had little mini Boggle games, so we had some fun trying to make up words, but mostly we just used the puzzles as a way of interacting with each other. Of course, the puzzles are not just for the one day of the year, but are available for anyone to use at any time.
