Diverse foods, languages, costumes and cultures are capturing the imaginations of residents at Masterton’s Kandahar Home. Today, Kandahar Home service worker Benita Prasad has brought in her personal collection of saris for residents to admire. In the background, a tray of delicious Indian-style donuts beckons.
The sounds of children’s chatter are echoing down the halls of Karori’s Huntleigh Home. There, the home’s residents have been teaching students from Karori West Normal School how to stitch yarn ‘poms’, which will eventually be woven together by residents at Palmerston North sister site Brightwater Home to make bedroom rugs for disadvantaged children.
It’s a big deal to trust someone else with the care of a loved one, especially when they’re at their most vulnerable. or Joan Leckie, knowing her husband Norm would receive first-rate support helped make the process a little easier.
The sounds of clapping, singing and children’s laughter are filling the halls of Masterton’s Kandahar Home. It’s not a sound traditionally associated with retirement homes, but at Kandahar, ensuring elders enjoy contact with children is a core part of its unique Enliven philosophy.
Members of Willard Home ‘Knit and Knatter’ group will readily tell you that over the course of their lives, they’ve spent countless hours knitting garments to help keep their children and grandchildren warm. Now they’re putting those same skills to use for the benefit of other children in the community.
The Enliven family includes:
