Riverside's Health & Wellbeing Service supports our customers & communities to age healthy, remain independent, & maintain physical and mental wellness.
It’s National Intergenerational Week! In the first of a series of blogs to celebrate, our Health and Wellbeing Manager Kelli Melloy shares the benefits mixing generations in our services has had for participants both young and old. crowd.in/zN0TXq#IntergenerationalWeek
Join @JohnAGlenton at @BENetworking conference on March 11 as he talks about our retirement living schemes nationwide and plans for future. Also discussing our commitment to champion social and wellbeing side of retirement living.
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Got permission to show one of our residents enjoying the snow. Took her for a stroll through the garden. We had a snowball fight and then some ice scating too.
Great fun ❄☃️
@RuthLeadsRd@ShellyRiv1@chuchi3651@AlanMarples @RiversideCarol @Riverside_HWS
On International Day of Older Persons, @mellk1 explains how our Health and Wellbeing Service has adapted to the coronavirus pandemic to continue to be there for older people... crowd.in/iUWqq2
*Photographs taken before the pandemic.
Riverside's Jane shares a story from one of our Retirement Living schemes which shows how resilient some of our older customers have been during the COVID-19 pandemic. #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons
International Day of Older Persons 2020: How Riverside’s Health and Wellbeing Service adapted during the coronavirus pandemic riverside.org.uk/internation… via @RiversideUK
So far our Retirement Living & @Riverside_HWS team have carried out over 250,000 welfare calls to 4,500 customers nationally to ensure residents have food, medication & connection to the outside world during the crisis. #InternationalOlderPersonsDaycrowd.in/K4JubO
Recently customers in our Retirement Living schemes across the Liverpool City Region took part in a lockdown poetry competition. Here are the winners with their prizes!
Read the brilliant winning poem from Brenda who lives in Hawthorne Court in Sefton.
ALT Poem reads:
Lockdown Poem by Brenda
Just a lonely old lady with nowhere to go
Because COVID-19 made it so
So I sit doing crosswords and jigsaws and read
And write out a list of what shopping I need
I sit by the window till my daughter comes by
Stand two metres away and try not to cry
And off she goes to the local shops for me
To get what I need for my dinner and tea
Back she comes no hug or a kiss
Most of all that's the thing that I miss
But hopefully it will all be over soon
And we will all be together in our communal room
ALT Two Retirement Living customers are presented with certificates and vouchers.
Can I just say a huge thank you @Red_Neighbours & Christine Mounsey for your contributions, support & partnership work with Riverside’s Health and Wellbeing Service. Our customers benefit greatly, blessed to work with you 🌟#community#Wellbeing#olderpeople 🌟🌟🌟@Riverside_HWS
Huge thanks to @LFC for gifting 5 iPads to our retirement living schemes in the area so they can keep in touch with loved ones and prevent social isolation. 😃
Here's 2 residents from St Luke’s Court, Walton with the tablet which will be shared as a lending library initiative.
Massive thank you to Davina, Sarah and Graham @Woodvalecentre for their generous donation to our older customers at Orchards in Sefton, Care packages, cakes, activity packs, and flowers for each resident. We can't thank you enough. #kind#WeAreTogether#wellbeingwednesday
Huge thank you Riverside's staff teams today sorting our mega book donation from @HarperCollinsUK and to our Evolve colleagues Mark & Dave for delivering them to Liverpool for our older tenants to enjoy #MotivationMonday#Thankyou#Kind
Here's Anton who wanted to do something worthwhile so put himself forward to work on the ICU ward which looks after patients with coronavirus. He lives at Mike Jackson House, our supported housing for veterans’ who are homeless or at risk of homelessness
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On behalf of all our Retirement Living customers can I say a massive thank you for your kindness and generosity, and thanks to all our staff teams who will distribute #WeAreAllInThisTogether#kindness#Wellbeing
I can’t thank @HarperCollinsUK & @hermioneireland enough, your MEGA donation of 1600 fiction & not fiction books will really help our older customers who are self isolating in Riverside Retirement Living Schemes #kindness#Thankyou Shout out to our homegrown Chris R too ❤️🌈😊