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.
Read our brochure
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
World Food Day
Monday 16th October was World Food Day, so we took the opportunity to celebrate by serving dishes from various countries.
Bea, who is from Denmark, made 'smorrebrod'; Anna, who is polish, made 'salatka jarzynowa'; and Dina, from the Philippines, made 'kalamay', which is a sticky rice pudding.
The kitchen made quiches and there was some discussion about whether a quiche is really an English dish or whether it is German, or perhaps even French?
Some people tasted the various dishes, whilst others, who were more cautious, only enjoyed the look and smell.
It was nice to celebrate our differences and share our culinary skills between cultures
Animal Encounters
We had a visit from Little Man and Fleur one afternoon. They are two alpacas who came from Hendra Farm to see us, along with three baby rabbits. We could hold the rabbits and stroke the alpacas and they were very popular but we kept having to count, as a kitten who lives at Kernow House also entered into the mix: one kitten, two alpacas, three rabbits! Last year Hendra farm visited with owls and snakes and we will look forward to seeing what they bring along in the spring. We are hoping for a little lamb, perhaps.
Jeans for Genes
Residents and staff took part in raising awareness about genetic, life-altering disorders by taking part in 'Jeans for Genes' and making donations to the charity, who support children with genetic disorders.
Pictured are Gwen, Ali, Denise and Stephen, who live on our Huntington’s Unit and were keen to put on their jeans in support.
It is difficult to decide which denim look is the best, but dungarees definitely were a firm favourite!
Autumn Newsletter
Please click here to read the autumn edition of the Kernow Kewsel.
Employee of the Month - August
Our August Employee of the Month is Dorota Nakonieczna; she was nominated by colleagues, who described her as, “fair, friendly and never late,” and this makes her a lovely person to work with. Dorota is pictured here receiving flowers and a voucher from General Manager, Careen Harris.
Congratulations to you, Dot!
A LADS Performance
LADS – which means Launceston Amateur Dramatic Society – came to Kernow House with their youth group. They performed The Jonah-Man Jazz and Sweeney Todd for us. The children sang and told the stories using props, music and lots of movement - and we all enjoyed watching them. They truly are a very talented group, who brought much joy to us.
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.
