Month: August 2021
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Carers Group – 31st August
Lisa welcomed everyone and introduced the speaker for this evening Mr Michael Shann – from Carers UK – Head of Membership and Volunteering. Carers UK – 20 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4LXTel: 0207378 4978Mobile: 07920 557 207 Michael had some presentation slides and a video which he shared and talked about. He talked a…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 31st August 2021
We had 14 members today. As we can no longer hold any sing-a-long sessions as we did during the pandemic, it has been decided that we start the zoom afternoon sessions at 2.30pm. This will start with our usual chat time followed with music entertainment starting at 3pm with James Le Bec and then followed…
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Finchley Memorial Hospital – 25th August 2021
The booking system at the Finchley Memorial Hospital is running smoothly and everyone knows to contact Lisa if they like to attend. We had no music entertainment today as this is every other week. Members were kept busy with colouring, puzzles, word searches and today they also had a multiple-choice quiz which was challenging but…
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Carers Group – Tuesday 24th August
A big thank you to Keren for taking the first half hour of the meeting in my absence. Our speaker today from Carers UK had to reschedule for next week and Andrew was unable to join us as he had a work emergency. The session today was therefore open to all members to raise and…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 24th August 2021
We had 14 members today. Everyone enjoyed having lots of chats and then Lisa introduced a multiple-choice picture quiz. Susanne and Sheila did really well in the quiz with 15 out of 20. James Le Bec then joined us and everyone enjoyed some music favourites to start with and this followed with the music quiz…
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Finchley Memorial Hospital – 18th August 2021
We have 25 members now for each of the sessions which are working out really well. Lisa makes sure that all the tables are cleaned beforehand and prepares the room ready. It was great to have Angela Chen and another new volunteer today – Theresa Haslehurst. I’m very grateful for their help. Lisa made sure…
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Carers Group Meeting Tuesday -17th August 2021
Carers Group Meeting Tuesday -17th August 2021 Lisa welcomed everyone including the new members and introduced and welcomed; Andrew Wrensch – Community Development Manager at a Care Home and a qualified trainer who does seminar training on topics of interest for our carers group meetings. Marcelo Navarro – Managing Director of a care company Christie’s Care now…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 17th August 2021
We had 11 members today. There was also no James Le Bec as he was on holiday. Everyone however had a lovely chat and Lisa also did some quizzes which everyone enjoyed and called out the Bingo before Eon joined us for the exercises. The Bingo winner was Pam Horwood.
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Finchley Memorial Hospital – Wed 11th Aug 2021
We had 25 members today. This session now has to be booked and 25 members is the new limit for the number of people in the room which makes it more manageable. Lisa welcomed everyone and also the volunteers Melvyn and Dr Angela and also one of our volunteers from the past Angela Chen who…
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Vitual Dementia Club session – 10th August 2021
We had 10 members today. This was our first session in our new programme. Everyone enjoyed a chat and then Lisa did a multiple-choice quiz. James Le Bec then joined us with Joy for the music entertainment. This also included a music quiz and at the end the first letters of each answer are used…