Gwen and Rex Brewster together with their daughter Helen Mayes made their own masks for the occasion
Inside this issue: • Romeo & Juliet celebrations • An Irish afternoon • Delicious summer menu • Meet Keith Jean Sandel Retirement Village Christmas Newsletter 2017
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Greetings from Shelly... Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of Jean’s Register. It’s hard to believe Christmas is nearly upon us! We are finally able to enjoy some warmer weather and our colourful gardens are in bloom. For me, this year has been one of change. I moved into a new role, a new village and a new city. I have been warmly welcomed by everyone here and I wish to thank you for your kindness and support. We had a busy time during the winter with a variety of Romeo & Juliet themed events. Our activities team is busy planning for the rest of the year so keep an eye on your calendars for more to come. We are looking forward to implementing our new myRyman Care app and we
hope that this will be a great benefit to our residents. Finally, the end is in sight for our village extension! Our new dining area and lounge bar should be ready for our Christmas party season. Thank you for your patience while renovations are ongoing. I wish you a happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.
Kind regards, Shelly Mills Village Manager
Romeo & Juliet Celebrations To celebrate the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Ryman Healthcare season of Romeo & Juliet our team performed a comedy about the famous romance. There were plenty of laughs and compliments from the residents. The play was put together by the activities team, with Chris Gimlett on keyboard providing music and sound effects.
nd and Caregivers Shalini Shah, Shreta Cha sad activities assistant Sylvia Con ine
Charity partner announced In June, Alzheimer’s NZ was announced as Ryman’s charity partner for the year. Ngaire Dixon, chair of Alzheimer’s New Zealand, was delighted with the announcement as dementia and Alzheimers will become more of an issue in the future. There were more than 62,000 New Zealanders with dementia
in 2016, and the this is forecast to grow to 170,212 people by 2050. Ryman villages include 710 dementia beds and demand for care is growing. Every dollar raised for Alzheimer’s New Zealand at our villages this year will be matched dollar for dollar by Ryman Healthcare.
Shelly Mills Village Manager Phone: 06 751 4420
Debbie Newton Sales Advisor Phone: 06 751 4504
Call Shelly for general enquiries or any information about resthome, hospital and dementia care.
Talk to Debbie about retirement living options and availabilities in the village.
71 Barrett Road, New Plymouth • www.jeansandel.co.nz
performers Our Romeo & Juilet nce loving the Conga da
Caregiver Ethel Mandarte poses for a commemorative photo
The fantastic team behind our Shakespearean play
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Summer menu launched! Our Delicious menus have taken our villages by storm since the launch in February this year. The much-anticipated summer menus will combine age-old favourites along with a few new additions, such as the inclusion of couscous. Hospitality manager Andrew Gibson said that the team concentrated on refining the menus for this edition.
“We’re building on the success of our previous menus by refining the recipes. We know what works now and we’ll build from there. But we also included a few new dishes.” Among these new dishes are chefs Paul Kuronic and Steve Iraia’s crab cake dishes. Paul and Steve both won silver at the New Zealand Hospitality Championships earlier this year, and residents will now get a taste of their creations. And the best new dish on the menu? “Definitely the brisket!” Andrew enthused. The summer menus will be rolled out in October.
Happy Birthday Flo
Florence During September we celebrated joined Millcent's 101st birthday. Flo was med as by her family and friends, and bea y. everyone wished her a happy birthda we and to Flo blew out her candles with gus hour. ended the afternoon with a happy ! We wish you all the best Flo mill Flo with her daughter Madeline Win
Dispensary Team
We would like to introduce the Waitara Pharmacy team, which provides medic ation for our village. Margaret Helms, the owner and pharmacist, visits the village each Tuesday mo rning. To find out more about their free delive ry services phone 754 7662.
Christmas tree cookies Makes approx 10 trees Ingredients: • 2 cups flour • ½ tsp baking soda • 1 tbsp ground ginger • 1 cup (220g) firmly packed soft brown sugar • 150g butter
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1 egg Cookie cutter, one shape varying sizes
Royal icing sugar: • 2 egg whites • 2 cups icing sugar • 2 tsp vanilla extract
Method: 1. Preheat oven to 180°C. 2. Sift flour, baking soda and ground ginger together in a bowl. Add butter. 3. In a separate bowl beat the egg and sugar until light and fluffy. 4. Mix everything together. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes. 5. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and cut out the shapes. 6. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden.
Keep an eye on the smaller cookies so that they don’t burn. 7. Remove from oven and cool on baking rack. 8. Assemble the tree by using a bit of icing sugar between the layers. Royal icing sugar: Beat egg whites in clean, large bowl with mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually add sugar and vanilla extract. Beat at high speed until thickened.
Cashin Scholarship open for entries Fozia Tasheem has no doubt that winning the first Cashin Scholarship changed the course of her life. Fozia was studying accounting and information systems at Victoria University and funding her studies was a struggle. Fozia’s mum, Hushn Bano, was working at Malvina Major as a housekeeper, and Fozia took a part time job there. “I did everything I could at the village to get extra shifts.’’ In 2011, she applied for the first Cashin Scholarship and it could not have come at a better time. Now 25, Fozia has just been promoted to a co-ordinator’s role at Datacom in Wellington, so her career is on the up.
The 2018 Cashin Scholarship is now open. Ryman staff and family members undertaking tertiary study in 2018 can apply. Entries close November 24. For more details contact David King at: david.king@rymanhealthcare.com
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During this time, I developed a solid reputation as an auctioneer, stock agent, and finally, as the district manager for South Taranaki.
International Month care
For International Month, the special ir French unit and the hospital embraced the and ham side. First we made croissants with nch language camembert, then we enjoyed a Fre French lesson and we even tried singing the ucoup to anthem La Marseillaise. Merci bea h us! wit everyone who spent the day Our staff turned French for the day
Flax Weaving
During International M onth, we learned how to weave. Rach Bryan ta ught a few residents, including Max Legg, Ell en Jennings and Taco Sybrandy how to weav e flax flowers. This make-and-create af ternoon turned out to be quite educat ional! Max, Ellen and Taco ta king part in the weaving
Introducing Teresa Jurkiewicz Hello, my name is Teresa Jurkiewicz and I am the clinical manager here at Jean Sandel.
I worked for nine years in a large teaching hospital in Leeds.
I was born in the south of England and spent half my life there. My children were born in Leeds and are now six and eight years old.
Then I worked in the Health Access Team undertaking health assessments on ekers. refugees and asylum seekers. This was followed by working with families in child protection.
My children and I immigrated to New Zealand in 2016. I have a sister in NZ who married a Kiwi. It is one of the reasons we decided to move to New Plymouth. We haven’t travelled a lot in NZ yet, but would like to. I would also like to visit Australia again. I studied nursing, and I also have a degree in law and public health. I am currently completing an MSC in healthcare management. After I first qualified,
I started working at Jean Sandel earlier this year and I am loving it. One of my passions is team building and also developing opportunities for our staff to Patrick's Day was a lot of grow into St a strong team. fun at Edmund Hillary with In my sparegreen timeoutfi (notts, that I have much!) green food, I enjoy reading, taking the children and of course, Guinness! to the beach and occasionally horse riding.
d n a l w e N h t i e Meet K
I met my future wife, Joan, at a dance in Fitzroy in 1945 and we married in 1948. Together we have six children, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. In 2005, with the family’s encouragement we moved from Hawera to a very smart townhouse here at Jean Sandel. As I look back now, I think it’s the best decision we have made.
I was born in Masterton in 1926 and my family moved to Eltham when I was two years old. I went to primary school in Eltham and then moved to Inglewood when I was seven years old.
It didn’t take long for us to settle in and to start developing some strong friendships with our neighbours and staff. Late in 2014, Joan moved to the resthome and I stayed in our townhouse, but moved to a serviced apartment later in 2016.
I had a daily commute on the train from Inglewood to Stratford High School until I was 15 years old. I got a job at The Farmers Co-Op in Hawera as a stock clerk and had a very successful career there for 45 years.
I am a social and active person and enjoy spending time with the staff, visitors and going on outings. It is a wonderful community to be part of.
Hello, my name is Keith Newland.
Prior to Joan’s death in 2016, we celebrated our 68th wedding anniversary at the village.
Father's Day For Father’s Day we invited everyone to a special happy hour. For this occasion we managed to fill up our new lounge! What a great way to celebrate fathers, we hope everyone enjoyed it.
ng with people Our village lounge was bustli celebrating Father's Day
Jean’s Register The Jean Sandel Boot Scooters are a village favourite
Line Dancers The members of the Jean Sandel dance group, the Boot Scooters, practice every Friday morning, and have done so for the past three years. Most of the group are in their 80s but it didn’t deter them from learning the new moves. The group has performed at the village several times and we always love watching them dance!
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