Jane's Journal Christmas 17 by Ryman Healthcare Ltd

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We were very proud to support the Alzheimer's Memory Walk

Inside this issue: • Alzheimer’s Memory Walk • Delicious summer menu • Bowling tournament • Meet Max Jane Mander Retirement Village Christmas Newsletter 2017

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Greetings from Wendy... Hello and welcome to the Christmas edition of Jane’s Journal. It is hard to believe that I have been working at the village for a year. It has certainly been exciting and fast-paced. I would like to acknowledge the fantastic contribution of our volunteers. Our Knit & Natter ladies work tirelessly to produce fantastic goods and our Men’s Shed contributed their time and skills in producing wonderful outdoor chairs. I would also like to thank all our care centre volunteers led by Ann Dickson who does a wonderful job with all the activities. And not to forget our wonderful residents who assist with delivering mail, help in the bar and make our village a fantastic place to live. We have achieved a lot throughout the year; including cleaning up at the

Camellia show, competing at the Whangarei Resthome Olympics, developing a community garden area and assisting our community in the parliamentary elections. Our activities staff are hard at work preparing all the Christmas activies. I am really looking forward to seeing you at these functions. As this year draws to a close I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Recently staff and residents completed the 4km Hatea Loop walk in Whangarei to support dementia awareness. The walk started from the Canopy Bridge and followed our famous loop walk around the bridges of the Whangarei town basin. Our 14 person team walked with around 300 others to complete this year’s annual Alzheimer's NZ Memoryy Walk.

We joined other participants from the community including NZ Top Model judge Colin Mathura-Jeffree! Colin is a spokesperson for Alzheimer's New Zealand. It was a fantastic day supporting a great cause.

Kind regards,

Wendy Turner Village Manager

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

Memory walk

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.

Wendy Turner Village Manager Phone: 09 435 3850

Fiona Scotland Sales Advisor Phone: 09 435 3803

Call Wendy for general enquiries, or any information about resthome, hospital and dementia care.

Talk to Fiona about retirement living options and availabilities in the village.

262 Fairway Drive, Whangarei • www.janemander.co.nz

ical manager Resident Marie Minhinnick, clin s NZ champion Shalimar Bawayan, Alzheimer' Jeffree and village for dementia Colin Mathuramanager Wendy Turner

The team ready for action

Team Jane Mander on the march!

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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 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.

Romeo & Juliet For the Royal New Zealand Ballet and Ryman Healthcare season of Romeo & Juliet our village celebrated with a village masquerade ball! Our staff had the opportunity to dress up in era appropriate costumes and the residents loved dressing up and showing off their unique masks.

Our staff dressed in their best Romeo & Juliet outﬁts

We also made a special love seat where our residents could take their photos! The tables were decadently decorated with ﬂower ornaments and even a real pigs head! It was a fantastic evening with great people!

The summer menus were rolled out in October.

The love seat was very popular wit our residents

Musical interlude Jim Joll and Debbie Dorday turned up at our village during October to wow us with their incredible vocal talents. The audience were engaged and enjoyed singing along with all the old time favourites. Afterwards, everyone got the chance to meet them as they stayed for an afternoon tea. Most of our residents even got to take some photos!

Cashin Scholarship open for entries

Dapper gentleman:

Jim Joll

Fozia Tasheem has no doubt that winning the ﬁrst Cashin Scholarship changed the course of her life.

The 2018 Cashin Scholarship is now open. Ryman staff and family members undertaking tertiary study in 2018 can apply.

Fozia was studying accounting and information systems at Victoria University and funding her studies was a struggle.

For more details contact David King at: david.king@rymanhealthcare.com

Fozia’s mum, Hushn Bano, was working at Malvina Major as a housekeeper, and Fozia took a part time job there.

Not long after we welcomed the duo back and they kindly put on another performance for our care centre in the resthome atrium. Debbie amazed us all with her outstanding costume changes. The residents all went home with smiles on their faces!

“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.

Everyone loved Debbie Dorday's outﬁts

Now 25, Fozia has just been promoted to a co-ordinator’s role at Datacom in Wellington, so her career is on the up.

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healthy, but he couldn’t have been more perfect. Rosalie gave birth to six children without seeing the inside of a labour ward!

Celebrating elders

to celebrate Every year we host a variety concert son. This the International day of the Older Per dents to year, we invited other resthome resi ir put on a come and join us for the day. Our cho our activities spectacular performance along with as the team. Residents and staff dressed up ience Beverley Hillbillies and amused the aud with their antics! es Vab driver Stan Bickerton with activiti coordinator Coralie Vine

1st Resthome Olympi cs

Our resthome residents took part in the annual Resthome Olym pics held in the ASB stadium in Kensington. The residents had a blast and it was amaz ing to see so much teamwork and support. We were all awarded a gold medal from May or Sheryl Mai, which we proudly wore on th e way home. We look forward to the next on e!

Introducing Michael Davies Kia Ora! My name is Michael Davies. I was born and brought up in Coventry in the west midlands England. After meeting a Kiwi in the UK, we fell in love and married. In 2002, we immigrated to New Zealand and settled in Whangarei. In 2011, after spending nearly 11 years as a landscaper and horticulturalist, I found myself working as the gardener and maintenance ofﬁcer in an aged care facility in Whangarei. This is where I discovered my passion for working with older members of our community. My job was disestablished in July this year and I found myself looking for a new opportunity. I found a position at

Jane Mander. I started out helping with the special care activities part-time and covering for holidays in the garden. The welcome i d since i I and support I have received started working at Jane Mander has been truly heart-warming and humbling. I am very happy in my new position as caregiver and I look forward to helping all our lovely residents! Here is to many more years together in our wonderful community.

zley a e B x a Meet M Hello, my name is Max Beazley. I was born in Auckland on 19 February 1929. My parents lived in Rotorua, but my mother had booked into a nursing home in Auckland to give birth. I have three brothers, Gerrard (91) who is in the village with me, Barry now deceased, and a younger one, Roger who is 83. My father came to Whangarei when I was 9 to manage the Mobil Oil Company. We lived in a state house in Parahaki Street, and I was educated at St Joseph’s Convent School and Whangarei Boys High School. I became an apprentice builder with Haig’s builders. I married Rosalie at the age of 22 and we have six lovely children. A big laugh for everyone was that we had two ten-year spaces, we had four children very early and ten years later we had a daughter, and at the ripe old age of 49 we ﬁnally had another a son. We have three boys and three girls. Although, in those days there were not scans available so we didn’t know whether the baby was

Our eldest two boys, now sixty-five and sixty-four, went to boarding school at Sacred Heart College, Lyne our oldest daughter went to Whangarei Girls High School, and Joanne was a foundation pupil at Tikipunga High School. Later on, Maxine and Mathew both attended Pompallier College, I was a Board Member and Rosalie was the first Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. We were both very keen on education and it has certainly paid off. Most of my life I have been involved in sport, rugby, tennis, swimming, yachting, and for many years I have been a Life Member of the Marist Rugby club. Our whole family is very proud of our Maori heritage and my brother Barry even played for the Maori All Blacks. Rosalie and I decided to move to Jane Mander Village (we are now in our ninth year) and we have no regrets at all. In 2004, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and prostate cancer. I spent a long time in hospital and I have the greatest appreciation for the medical profession, they have been very good to me. Because of the Crohn’s disease I am on a special diet; no green vegetables, no nuts and no roughage (dietary fibre) at all, it has worked wonders for me. Rosalie must cook two meals every time as the roughage and vegetables are what she in turn needs! Rosalie and I have been married 65 years and we will celebrate our 66th anniversary in February 2018. I am really looking forward to it. I love my family and the Jane Mander village and make no apology for it.

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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

• 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.

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