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The Community Times The Views at St. Joseph’s Resident E-Mail Address: [email protected]
As we begin a brand new month and year, the Activity
Department will be launching again into new programs and
exciting activities for the year. I would like to thank all of
our wonderful staff, family members and volunteers for
making the Christmas Season such an enjoyable time for
everyone. The spirit of Christmas was evident throughout
this busy time of year.This year due to the generosity of
various family members, community businesses (including
IHOS and the Royal Bank),volunteers and staff, each resident
will have received a gift from Santa. With the additional beds
on Mountainview, Santa’s list was a little bit longer but this
did not deter the generosity of so many who contributed
towards the Secret Santa Wish Tree. Special thanks to all
who donated Crafts and Baking to our Annual Bazaar and
Raffle which made a profit of $1750.00. This will all go
towards resident programming.
Happy New Year and Best wishes for 2020! It will be an
exciting year. Brenda, Activity Director
Charles Dickens
“So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many
more whose happiness depends on you!”
Celebrating January
January 10
Ukelele Group
January 15
Grandbuddy Visit
January 22
Pub Lunch
January 24
Chinese Food Luncheon
January 25
Robbie Burns Day
Laurie Tinkler Highland
Dancers
January 28
Welcome Tea
January 30
Activity Department
Think Tank Workshop
To the Knights of Columbus for decorating the Views. We have enjoyed all of the Christmas décor throughout the festive season. They will also be returning to put all decorations
away until next year! Thank You!!
General Store Hours
Open Thursdays 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Thank you to Steve, Judy and Joan for providing this service each week.
Family Feedback Meeting
Please note day change
to be held Friday, January 10th
in the Edith McNish Board
Room at 1:30 p.m.
More information can be
located on the Family
Information Bulletin Boards
All new family members welcome
Healing Touch available to
residents of The Views
Healing Touch is a compassion-based
modality that uses both hands-on
(touch) and energy field (hands off)
techniques to bring balance and well-
being to the person. Healing Touch is
offered to the residents at The Views
each Tuesday afternoon. This service is
provided free of charge by trained
healing touch practitioners who
volunteer their time to The Views.
Please contact the Activity
Department if you would like further
information or would like to receive
this service.
January 2020
Care Conference Update for 2020
To all our Friends and Family members at The Views,
Starting in January, 2020 we are hoping to implement
a shift in focus ensuring that our conferences are
more family and resident focused and revolve around
well being.
Brenda Phillips will continue to notify family of
upcoming conferences, and Marie Ellis will continue
to schedule them. A questionnaire was circulated via
e-mail that included 4 questions that may assist in
preparing for the annual conferences. These
questions will be used as a guide to direct the
meeting. You are welcome to share your questions
ahead of time with Brenda and/or Marie if you wish.
The care conferences are held annually and are 30
minutes long. They include a variety of the
interdisciplinary team. The purpose of these
meetings are to discuss our residents’ well being,
answer questions and create goals of care and key
wishes for the following year. We request that the
primary contact alert any additional guests. Please
note, that if you have any questions/concerns
before/after these meetings that they can be
addressed with the nursing staff in your loved one’s
neighborhood and they don’t need to be “saved up”.
We hope that this change will facilitate conversation
that focuses on the strengths and capabilities of our
amazing residents, and less on deficits to ensure that
their time here with us is meaningful, comfortable
and filled with moments of joy.
Providing we get positive feedback, this will hopefully
be the format moving forward.
Feel free to contact Brenda or Marie with any
questions or feedback.
FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP
Brian Ducedre, Coordinator of
Spiritual Care and Ethics is starting a
new program focusing on spouses
and family members.
This is a group that is open to all
spouses and family members who
wish to share their feelings and
experiences of their loved one living at
The Views.
As family, you witness the different
stages of life that your family member
goes through and at times, a
supportive presence can be helpful
and comforting for those experiencing
these changes. This group offers a safe
and confidential, compassionate
environment where feelings can be
shared and honored
The Next Family Support Group
Meeting will take place on Tuesday,
January 21st at 10:00 a.m. in the
Edith McNish Board Room
Refreshments will be served.
If you have any questions, you can
contact Brian at 250-331-6850 ext.
68794.
January 2020
Celebrating Robby Burns Day
Saturday, January 25th
Presentation of the Haggis
Laurie Tinkler Highland Dancers
Scottish Refreshments
In Celebration of National Activity
Week, January 19th-25th, the Activity
Staff will be holding its Annual
Think Tank Workshop on Thursday,
January 30th. This gives the
department an opportunity to come
together as a team to discuss various
aspects of the program, brainstorm
for new ideas and affirm our activity
role as a professional. The Activity
Staff will continue to develop new
programs based on the many needs
of our residents. We look forward to
many changes happening in 2020 at
The Views.
Celebrating National Activity Professionals Week January 19th-25th, 2020
As we stand at the crossroads of our residents lives, it is a time of choice..a time of question..a
time to ensure that our residents will live lives of integrity over despair….
Each day will dawn the opportunity to do something new…
See a flower in a new light…nurture a friendship toward a more fulfilling tomorrow…a chance to complete a project…to sit back with satisfaction
and know that a task was well done. Every moment is a present to be unwrapped…a
discovery waiting to be uncovered. We will search for meaning in every act and not give up
when the response is minimal, for each day has a dawn—each moment an eclipse. We live and
work for those moments of surprise…the moment of “Aha!”--the sparkle of recognition within vacant eyes and the moment in which a
confused soul comes home to who he is. We will come to work equipped with the tools of
love, compassion and the vision to see beyond
the tangible. For before us sits not illness,
confusion, and loss, but rather possibility, depth
of spirit and the wisdom of ages. It is merely a
well which needs to be primed and encouraged
to bring forth the spring of life..of joy…and the
knowledge that deep within, are fountains ready
to spring forth.
It is here with joy and anticipation that we
believe that life goes on….that life is not
ended….not used up, but rather there is the
opportunity to complete the life that has come
full circle.
In each day we will seize the
opportunity…embrace the privilege to complete
the circle of life.