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Festive Edition 2020

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Home Instead York would like to wish all our clients and families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In a year that has been like nothing we have experienced before, we would like to thank you for continuing to put your trust in us and the service we provide.

This year we gifted all of our clients a tin of biscuits (see photos on back page). Our CAREGivers very kindly have been delivering them over the course of the month. It was great seeing all the lovely smiles on our clients’ faces, as they were delivered.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions the team was photographed separately and has been merged as a group.

‘Be a Santa’ success

Home Instead York start ‘Wall of Smiles’ Owner of Home Instead offices in York & Scarborough, Luke Norbury, wants to raise £500 for The Bring Joy Foundation by February 2021.

Luke’s first step in raising £500 for the charity, which was founded to ‘bring joy’ into the lives of older people across the UK, has been to start a ‘Wall of Smiles’ at the Home Instead office in York.

The aim of the ‘Wall of Smiles’ is to encourage members of the public and local businesses to donate to the Bring Joy Foundation and in return they can send a photo in to be featured on the wall.

In the first couple of weeks since the launch of the ‘Wall of Smiles’ Luke has already raised over half of his £500 target and there are several photos on the wall featuring smiling family members and friends from all over the country.

If you’d like to get involved, you can make a donation by visiting the https://www.justgiving.com/ fundraising/yorkandscarborough or send in a photo to bringjoy.york@homeinstead.co.uk,of the person you want to feature on the wall, with an explanation of who the person is and why you would like them to be featured on the ‘Wall of Smiles’. You will then be informed when your photo goes on the wall and you’ll see updates on Home Instead social media pages as we fill up the wall.

To read more about the Bring Joy Foundation and find out some of the ways in which it can help ‘bring joy’ to the lives of elderly people within our community visit: https://www.bringjoyfoundation. org/about/

This Christmas we are trying our utmost to spread some festive cheer. 2020 has been a year that we will all certainly remember, mainly for all the wrong reasons.

However, we are trying to bring a little bit of joy to some of the local community by working with Asda Monks Cross, on our ‘Be a Santa’ Christmas Campaign.

We’ve tasked our CAREGivers with nominating a friend, neighbour or someone within the local community, who they feel could do with a little bit of festive cheer, or as a thank you for their kind generous nature and going that extra mile to help others.

Jack, our Marketing & Finance Co-ordinator visited Asda Monks Cross last month and met the lovely Cyndi, Asda’s Community Development Officer, after they very kindly agreed to donate over 100 small gifts, ranging from tins of biscuits to chocolate Father Christmases, for the ‘Be a Santa’ Christmas Campaign.

Over the course of December, CAREGivers have been collecting gifts to take to their nominated person. It’s been great seeing some of the pictures come in, knowing we are bringing just a little bit of joy this Christmas!

Talented Walter bringing joy We have some incredibly talented clients here at Home Instead York. Meet Walter, a few years ago he made this nativity scene out of scrap wood and tree bark. He got the idea from a festive scene he had seen in a shop window in Austria!

The detail on the scene is incredible and we are not surprised that Walter continues to enjoy bringing it out and showing it to people each Christmas!

Paul gets into the Christmas spirit jumper

Client Paul has been getting into the Christmas spirit. He donned his finest festive jumper for #NationalChristmasJumperDay, doesn’t he look great?

Not only that, but he’s also been creating his own Christmas decorations to put up on his tree and around the house!

Amazingly, this is the first time Paul has had a Christmas tree and made decorations since he was a boy.

It makes us incredibly proud knowing we have been involved in helping him do this again this year. Special thanks should go out to his CAREGivers, Ema and Barbara who have helped Paul decorate and rekindle that festive spirit!

Christmas Jumper Day

Our team took part in #NationalChristmasJumperDay this month.

We tasked our CAREGivers with of the selfies we had sent in! sending us a selfie of them The office team also got sporting their finest festive involved. Despite the current knit. For each selfie we received restrictions meaning that some of we donated £2 to the Bring Joy the team are working from home, Foundation, a charity which aims to we managed to create an image ‘Bring Joy’ to elderly people within showing the team all together, for the community. In total we raised the first time since March. (See the £50. Here’s just a selection of some picture on the front page.)

Clients enjoy their Christmas gifts Winter Check List

Now that winter is here we’ve put together a check list to make sure you are ready for the cold winter days and nights. ❄ Make sure your heating has been serviced. The general advice is this should be done annually. ❄ Keep a torch handy in case of power cuts and a radio with extra batteries. ❄ Make sure you have plenty of layers of clothing to wear, warm slippers for indoors and grippy shoes if you are heading out. ❄ It’s important to have at least one hot meal a day.

Eating regularly will help keep your energy levels up.

❄ Have regular hot drinks, it’s a good idea to

keep a flask close by. ❄ Make sure that the room you spend most of your time in is warm throughout the day. ❄ Heat your bedroom before going to bed.

Set the timer on your heating to come on before you get up and switch off when you go to bed.

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se an electric blanket or a hot water bottle but not ❄ at the same time. ❄ Wear bed socks, thermal underwear and hat in bed if it’s really cold. ❄ Make sure you have a list of emergency contacts such as your doctor, insurance helpline and chemist in case you need them.

Home Instead Senior Care 10 Clifton Moor Business Village James Nicolson Link, Clifton Moor York YO30 4XG Telephone: 01904 690884 Email: info@hiscyork.co.uk Web: www.homeinstead.co.uk/york

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