The Elder - Festive Edition (Home Instead Newsletter)

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Home Instead Senior Care York & Ryedale would like to wish all their clients and family members a a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

To bring some additional festive cheer, Home Instead, along with Dean’s Garden Centre in York, will be giving Christmas Plants to all Home Instead clients.

With each plant there will be an accompanying Christmas card, designed by local York school children.

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More than just a Home Visit Did you know that our CAREGivers love to take clients on trips and outings, and the good news is that it’s all part of the services we offer. Our CAREGivers are happy to take people out and about to wherever they would like to go. Here’s some suggestions of the interesting things we can offer: ♥ Trips to the garden centre are a firm favourite. Best enjoyed with tea and cake! ♥ Shopping trips for groceries or ‘proper’ shopping to centres like Vanguard and York Designer Outlet are also popular choices. ♥ We accompany several clients to local assisted bathing facilities that are equipped with specialist baths. This is great for clients who enjoy a lovely soak but struggle to have one at home. ♥ We take clients to church services of all denominations and often round off a visit with a coffee with the parishioners. ♥ During the summer, we take clients to the seaside to enjoy a bit of bracing sea air or to interesting places such as the York Bird of Prey Centre, where apparently, they do a lovely cuppa! ♥ Visits to some of York’s wonderful National Trust properties make a super change, especially as our CAREGivers are allowed in for free. ♥ We also take people out to the pub for lunch, a fish supper, afternoon tea or even to their favourite restaurant.

If you would like to organise something for yourself or a family member please feel free to give Daphne Ellis a ring on 01904 690884.

Cold symptoms – to treat or not to treat?

Believe it or not, those annoying cold symptoms are part of the natural healing process. A fever is your body’s way of trying to kill viruses and makes germkilling proteins circulate more quickly. Coughing clears your breathing passages and even a stuffy nose is best treated mildly or not at all.

But you can do the following to relieve your symptoms: Blow your nose often and treat a stuffy nose with a warm salt water rinse.

Stay warm and rested – this will help your body direct its energy toward the immune system battle.

Gargle - try a teaspoon of salt dissolved in warm water, four times daily.

Drink hot liquids – these relieve nasal congestion, prevent dehydration and soothe the membranes that line your nose and throat.

Take a steamy shower - this moisturises your nasal passages and relaxes you.

Use a cream under your nose – a small dab of mentholated cream can open breathing passages and help repair the irritated skin.

Apply hot or cold packs around your sinuses – either temperature works!

Sleep with an extra pillow under your head – this helps relieve congested nasal passages.

Mail Scams and Think Jessica Think Jessica is a charity which supports victims and helps families who have been victims of mail scams.

Have you ever received a letter through the post informing you that you have won a large cash prize and in order to claim that prize you need to send off a small ‘admin fee’? This is a scam often aimed at the elderly who are more likely to respond. At times victims can lose several thousands of pounds genuinely believing they are going to win a prize.

The latest ‘Think Jessica’ film is available to watch on Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ZwXMsG2xkcM. If you believe you or a family member are a victim of scam mail visit www.thinkjessica.com for further advice and information.

Annette celebrates five years’ service Home Instead Senior Care York & Ryedale’s Care Coordinator, Annette, last week celebrated 5 years’ service.

Annette originally joined the Home Instead team as a CAREGiver in late 2013. Within 2 years she was recognised for her outstanding work and was awarded the 2015 CAREGiver of The Year Award for the region.

Since then Annette has joined a team of Key Player assistants, taking up a more office based role, and then onto her current position of Care Coordinator, which she started in May 2018.

Annette really is a vital part of the team at Home Instead York & Ryedale, and we look forward to many more years ahead.

Your Christmas Quiz

2 Which English leader prohibited the singing of Christmas songs?

3 Which word, often associated with Christmas, stems from the Greek word for circle dance?

4 The following are words from which Christmas songs? a. s he didn’t see me creep down the stairs to have a peep b. she'd been drinking too much egg nog c. once bitten and twice shy I keep my distance d. in the lane the snow is glistenin’ e. the choir of children sing their song they practised all year long 5 Many people claim that the first unofficial football international between Germany and a Scotland/ England side was played on a Christmas Day. The pitch or playing field was found between what?

6 The Bible doesn’t say when Jesus was born. Pope Julius I made this decision in which year? a. 50 AD

b. 350 AD

c. 750 AD

d. 1250 AD

7 Which German city, famous for its Christmas market (Christkindlmarkt) and Christmas ginger bread (Lebkuchen) was once known as the 'ginger bread capital of the world’?

8 The Christmas film 'Miracle on 34th Street' has been remade many times. Who won a best supporting actor Oscar for the role of Kris Kringle in the original 1947 film and which two-time Oscar winner played Kris in the 1994 remake?

9 Which song was heard on both sides of the trenches on Christmas Eve 1914?

10 Thousands of what marched on London from Norfolk just prior to Christmas each year in Victorian times?

Answers 1 Arrival 2 Oliver Cromwell 3 Carol (choranlein) 4 Five Answers: a. I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus b. Grandma got run over by a reindeer c. Last Christmas d. Winter Wonderland e. Wonderful Christmas Time 5 Between the trenches in no man’s land, Christmas 1914. (No match report is available, but it seems the Germans won 3-2.)

6 b. 350 AD 7 Nuremberg 8 Edmund Gwenn and Richard Attenborough 9 Silent Night (Stille Nacht) 10 Turkeys and Geese (The turkeys wore little leather boots; the geese just had their feet tarred)

1 Advent candles are a popular Christmas tradition in many cultures. What does the word advent mean?

Congratulations Annette!

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