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
Day Trip
Whenever we get an opportunity to go out, we do so. We have two minibuses and a car and, because Kernow House is situated centrally in North Cornwall, we have easy access to various towns, both Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, as well as the coast.
Residents often chose where they would like to go and, on this occasion, it was to the beach. It is almost more enjoyable this time of the year, when the waves are crashing on to the nearly-deserted beach, but the café selling ice cream is still open.
What could be better than sitting in the warmth whilst listening to the sound of the sea and eating ice cream made with good ol' Cornish clotted cream?
School Visit
We had our first visit from the children of St. Catherine’s School recently, so we brought out our ever-popular Kernow Kones. It was a good ‘ice breaker’ for a first visit and the children made many friends amongst the residents.
There was a lot of chatting, socialising and impromptu singing, which made it a very emotional visit. The children will visit every Tuesday and do various activities with us. We look forward to it!
Sensory Session
Kathy is a trained therapist who has worked with us for over 10 years. She delivers sensory sessions seven times a month around the home, so everyone has a chance to experience an hour of relaxation. Kathy then uses her aromatherapy oils to massage hands or legs for those who enjoy that. It’s lovely to have some calm time to chill and perhaps even have a little snooze.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
A few of us dressed up to take part in our fancy dress day, which we have every Christmas. This year the theme was ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’. We do this as a way of bringing a little cheer to the residents and each other and to wish everyone a very merry Christmas.
Winter Newsletter
Please click here to view the winter version the Kernow Kewsel.
Christmas Jumper Day
We like taking part in fun events, so we put on our most festive Christmas jumpers to mark the day. We all had a laugh posing for this photograph. Norma, who took it and is our oldest employee at 81 years old, insisted that we all looked a bit funny and blurry but thought it was probably her eyesight. Perhaps she was right. It’s all good fun though!
