Horsing around at Pleasant Meadow
LEA commended for going ‘above and beyond’ to help bring two horses for a visit with residents
A Pleasant Meadow Manor life enrichment aide (LEA) is being praised for going “above and beyond” to help bring a pair of horses to the Norwood long-term care home to visit residents on a Sunday afternoon.
On Oct. 9, the horses stopped by the home with a representative from the Norwood Fair, whom LEA Emily Gerow had contacted to arrange the visit, explains life enrichment co-ordinator Kim Williams.
Emily had also organized a visit on Oct. 7 from fair organizers who shared information with residents about the baking and crafts contests the fair hosts (residents won two ribbons in the crafts contest. See Nov. 9 OMNIway story).
Kim says the work Emily did to bring the horses to the home, as well as her efforts to ensure residents entered crafts and baking in the fair’s contests, was “much appreciated.”
The horses were brought to the front of the home and residents spent part of the afternoon petting and interacting with them.
Kim is commending Emily for coming up with an idea she knew the residents would appreciate.
“Emily thought it would be a great idea for the residents to see the horses, and she was right,” Kim tells The OMNIway.
“That was above and beyond, and it was very thoughtful of Emily to arrange that.”
The Norwood Fall Fair returned this year for the first time since 2019. The event, which has been a highlight of autumn in Norwood since 1868, was cancelled for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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