Activities at Laurel Bank Care Home

Residents, Karen & Pat, show off their new hand-made hats. Pat won a well-deserved first prize!

To celebrate National Carers Week, we gifted our carers with a special thank you card and some tasty biscuits as a way of saying thank you for all the hard work that they do.

Recently, Lisa Lothian from Laurel Bank was volunteered to attend a seminar at a local University about the effects of power cuts on care homes. She gave the speech to over 70 people and recieved many thanks from all those who listened:

'We really appreciated your talk on the impact of the loss of electricity on the care home. Official reports tend to concentrate on the value of lost business to City firms or Oxford Street retailers and similar easily measurable outcomes but gloss over the effects on vulnerable individuals and people caring for them as it is almost impossible to put a monetary value on the effects.

My 95-year old mother is in Lamel Beeches, a care home in York similar to Laurel Bank, and I am aware of how much they rely on electricity for raising beds, operating individual hoists, running the alarm system and so many other applications, apart from the obvious problems of helping a frail person use a toilet in the dark. I am sure that many people, who do not have recent experience of your sort of establishment will have been unaware of the challenges you faced.

Many thanks for your contribution to the day, which made many delegates recognise how much we rely on electricity in ways to which we cannot attach £ signs.'

Congratulations to Karen on receiving her certificate from Louis Crowe, Team Leader for achieving the highest score on our National Women's Quiz that was held in celebration of International Women's Day!