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It feels like summer 2024 went by in the blink of an eye and all of a sudden the leaves are starting to change colour. But before we peek too far ahead, let’s have a little look at what we’ve been up to over the summer months… We feel very lucky that this lovely island of ours has so much to offer, especially in the warmer months, and this summer we took full advantage of our wonderful home with day trips on land and at sea!  Parklands Updates Excursions to the donkey sanctuary, beach days and ice creams, and boat trips on the solent didn’t slow us down from our Parklands progress this summer! We continued to work very hard and thanks to an incredibly generous donation from the Mark Benevolent Fund, we are proud to announce that we installed a lift meaning the entire building is now accessible to all!  Our first floor has had a facelift too and almost all of our rooms are now in use. Last month we welcomed Healthwell Solutions to Parklands. Healthwell are an experienced team of therapists and practitioners who are focused on improving health and wellbeing and offer services such as massage, osteopathy, audiology, chiropody, and wellbeing advice. We are excited to announce that from 5th November we will also have a twice-weekly hairdressing salon @ Parklands! Vicky Downer will be taking walk-in sessions from 9.30am to 3pm during the first week of opening (from the 5th November) and then will be taking appointments for future bookings. We’ll share information on how to book in the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled! Click here for more information! In case you hadn’t seen the announcement, we also reopened our ACE7 café which runs twice a month and is based at Parklands. ACE7 is a café for people under 65 years old with young-onset dementia. Upcoming Fundraisers  Join us on 21st September which is World Alzheimer’s Day for our treasure hunt around Cowes followed by fun @ Parklands! We will also be having a Christmas Fair on 30th November so put the date in your diary! We’ll send more information on this closer to the time. Services and events @ Parklands Just a quick reminder that we offer a number of services and activities at Parklands throughout the week including: Monday 2pm: Beetle Drive Wednesday 10am: Knit and Natter Thursday 1.30pm: Citizen’s Advice Support Thursday 2pm: Bingo Friday 11am: Isle of Wight Age UK Dementia Care Navigators Drop-in Session Our Community Café is open from 9.30 to 4.30 Monday - Friday. We are a dementia friendly space but we welcome everyone in our community to come in for some lovely food or a coffee and cake! Click here to see our menus! We run a daily Wellbeing Club where we help support people with a dementia to maintain confidence and social skills whilst enabling opportunities for respite to carers and relatives. To enquire about booking sessions, call us on 01983 220200. Click here to learn more about Healthwell Solutions who offer services such as massage, osteopathy, audiology, chiropody, and wellbeing advice and are now based at Parklands.  Book your training today Building on the success of the IW Dementia Strategy 2022/25, to deliver dementia training across all health, social care and community settings, including the NHS Trust and our voluntary sector organisations, Maggie Bennett, Barry Jackman and our other accredited trainers within the Dementia Awareness Partnership are offering low-cost training sessions for 2024/25. Our objective is to deliver a consistent learning programme to ensure that when supporting a person living with a dementia, we will speak the same language, employ appropriate skills and be confident that our caring relationships are empathetic and effective, no matter where and whoever provides them. If you would like to book onto any of our courses, you can click this link and book yourself or members of your team onto a course quickly and easily. You can either pay upfront or we will send an invoice ahead of the training which will take place at Parklands Dementia Resource Centre in Cowes. We will be adding dates for 2025 soon. Some recent testimonials from our courses: “It was a really useful session, providing a deeper understanding of dementia and its impact.” “Loved it, and also helped me think of ways the information can be relevant to helping people in every day life.” “Practical, thought-provoking content expertly delivered. I left with answers to all the questions I had at the start. Thank you so much.” “Maggie’s energetic and inspiring presenting style meant that time flew by. Excellent slides and course materials provided. Would highly recommend.” “Excellent, informative course.” If you have any questions about our courses or any other enquiries, please don’t hesitate to email [email protected] or to call Parklands on 01983 220200. Thank you for taking the time to read our round-up!
We look forward to bringing you even more news next month. Until then, keep checking our website and Facebook page for events and activities! Comments are closed.
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