Community Life is alive and well at Converse Home during the pandemic! Since the Governor has provided a four-phased reopening guidance, the home is at Phase Two, which allows for socially distanced communal dining and activities in groups of ten or fewer. The mood in the home has lifted tremendously. We have groups that exercise every day, watch documentaries, enjoy garden tours and library deliveries! Craft circle has returned with collage projects and card making. Games like Trivia and The Minister’s Cat continue to be popular. The advent of Hallway Bingo when the quarantine time hit was a learning curve, but it is something that is going to stay for the foreseeable future! It is so much fun lining the hallways with TV trays and BINGO cards! We have written our own theme song and changed up the prize vault!
Family visits are an important part of our Community Life programming. In Gardenview, we provide window visits. We have decorated the window to make it inviting and comfortable and added high-quality two-way radios to allow for the best audio possible during the visits. Our favorite visits include the family pet or a tea party through the glass! Visits on the traditional side of the house are going very well utilizing both the garden and front porch window visits to provide meaningful communication. One recent visit included a banjo on the outside, a guitar on the inside and smiles throughout the house!
We are looking for young pen pals, so if you have children or grandchildren that are now homeschooling all or some of the time, please have them send their cards and letters! Address to “Pen Pal Club” and we’ll match them up or reply from the Gardenview Pen Pal Club. Hand drawn or colored pictures are encouraged too! The isolation continues, for us and for our families at home, so connections to the outside world are appreciated! We will return the favor! It’s always fun to get happy mail!
The dining room serves an exceptional lunch every day in two shifts to allow for social distancing. Service has been stepped up a notch with the staff in uniforms and meals delivered by hand tray, no more carts! The diners arrive early for time to chat and enjoy each other’s company. They are treated like they are in a fine restaurant – because they are! Servers are assigned to specific tables to allow for a ‘start to finish’ customer service like you would expect in any great restaurant.
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“My thanks to all of you – whether as part of the nursing, maintenance, dining room or administrative departments – for the superb care given to my sister. It was impressive to experience the friendliness, kindness and attention of all of you for my sister as well as for me. Congratulations for creating a culture of caring 24 hours a day!”
~ Betsy Davis
