Joe and Aileen Monaghan are seen here during Springdale Country Manor’s July 28 car show.
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Springdale Country Manor residents were treated to a top-notch car show July 28 when local car enthusiasts brought their wheels to the Peterborough County long-term care home. Read more
This piano was recently donated to West Lake Terrace.
West Lake Terrace has a new piano and the home is building a top-notch patio, thanks to two anonymous donations that has everyone feeling “very blessed” at the Prince Edward County long-term care home. Read more
Pleasant Meadow Manor residents Shirley Ainey and Florence Dainard engage life enrichment aide Victoria Zimmer in a water fight.
It was a seemingly normal, warm, summer day recently at Pleasant Meadow Manor when residents Shirley Ainey and Florence Dainard picked up water pistols and began soaking life enrichment aide (LEA) Victoria Zimmer. Read more
Music, butterflies and regular barbecues at the centre of homes’ programs
OMNI Health Care life enrichment departments have been demonstrating their innovative strengths this summer with a variety of resident-focused programs that underscore the organization’s core value of creativity. Read more
A major benefit stemming from Country Terrace hosting a Java Music Club program has been more resident participation in activities, says the Komoka long-term care home’s life enrichment co-ordinator. Read more
PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Springdale Country Manor’s life enrichment department treated residents to an afternoon of science experiments July 15. Read more
Since starting her summer placement at Pleasant Meadow Manor in May, Mandi Theriault says the sense of community she feels is her favourite aspect of life at the Norwood long-term care home. Read more
Wildwood Care Centre environmental services manager Ray Iredale gets hit with a pie during the home’s pie-in-the-face challenge to raise money for the Wildwood Relay for Life team on July 16. Administrator Scott Walsh (at right) is about to get hit with a pie as well.
Getting hit in the face with an apple-sauce-and-whipped-cream pie was a small price to pay for a good cause at Wildwood Care Centre on July 16.
The St. Marys, Ont. long-term care home hosted a fundraiser in support of its Relay for Life team that day, but suspense was building for a month to decide who would be the manager to get hit with a pie, says life enrichment aide Emily McNaughton.
As part of the pie-in-the-face challenge, each Wildwood Care Centre manager’s picture was put into a pie tin at the nurses’ station. During the next several weeks, staff members, residents, families and visitors dropped money into the tin representing the manager they wanted to see get a pie in the face.
The manager who had the least amount of money in their tin got to throw the pie in the face of the manager with the most.
With $44 in his tin, environmental services manager Ray Iredale was the manager who raised the most money, so he had the honours of getting a pie in the face. Food services manager Julie Brown got to throw the pie.
The pie-in-the-face challenge was held at noon and many of the home’s 60 residents were on hand to watch the fun unfold.
The event collected $153 to be put towards the Relay for Life team’s goal of raising $5,000 during the next year.
In June, 13 staff members and families from Wildwood Care Centre participated in a Relay for Life event in Stratford, Ont., raising about $2,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Relay for Life is a fundraising event held at running tracks in communities across Canada and the world. Participants take turns walking or running to raise money for cancer societies.
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Since Country Terrace became involved with the Java Music Club in May, resident participation in the program has blossomed to seven times its initial size. Read more
Woodland Villa resident Lucille Maheu is seen here with one of the butterflies that recently hatched at the Cornwall-area long-term care home.
Woodland Villa residents recently had an up-close-and-personal experience of nature by spending several weeks caring for butterfly chrysalises, watching the butterflies hatch and then releasing them. Read more