New to Zerbe’S 2 Goa Celebrates with Carnivals, Complete with Street Plays, Songs, and Dances
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VOLUME 1, I SSUE 4 Zerbe Sisters Nursing Center Volume 1, Issue 4 Easter Around the World April 4, 2019 France: French children don’t get treats from the Easter bunny; they get them from the Easter bells. According to Catholic teaching, no church bells can ring between Holy Thursday Inside this issue: and the Easter Vigil, on account of the solemnity of the days around Jesus’s death. Eventu- ally, a legend evolved that said the church bells weren’t rung because they grew wings and flew to Rome to be blessed by the Pope. Then they returned Easter Around the 1 Easter day with chocolate and presents for local kids. World India: Even though Christians only make up 2.5 percent of Kudos To All 2 India’s population, they still have elaborate Easter festivities, especially in the northeastern states. The western India state New to Zerbe’s 2 Goa celebrates with carnivals, complete with street plays, songs, and dances. People exchange chocolates, flowers, and colorful lanterns as gifts. Clinical Spotlight 3 Italy: On Pasqua (“Easter” in Italian), residents of Florence celebrate a 350-year-old tradition called scoppio del carro, which means “explosion of the cart.” A centuries-old cart is loaded Getting to Know 4 with fireworks and pulled in front of the Duomo, where spectators watch the pyrotechnics go Your Neighbor off. It’s meant to be a sign of peace and a good year ahead. South of Florence is the town Riddles, Comics and 5 Panicale, where the big celebration happens the day after Easter (called Pasquetta, or little more! Easter). Locals gather for the annual Ruzzolone, a competition that involves rolling huge Activities Calendar 6 wheels of Ruzzola cheese around the perimeter of the village. Poland: The day before Easter, families prepare a “blessing basket.” It’s filled with colored eggs, sausages, bread, and other important food and taken to church to be blessed. In Polish culture, Lent isn’t over until a priest blesses this basket. Like their Italian neighbors, the Polish save their most notable tradition for the day after Easter: SmigusDyngus. Young boys try to get girls (and each other) wet with water guns, buckets of water, and any other means they can think of. Legend has it that girls who get soaked will marry within the year. Australia: Some Australian kids are visited by the Easter Bunny, but rabbits are considered pests because they destroy the land. So some Australians associate Easter with a different animal. In 1991, the Anti-Rabbit Research Foundation started a campaign to replace the Easter Bunny with the Easter Bilby. Bilbies have big, soft ears like rabbits and long noses like mice, and they’re endangered, another reason for publicity around the campaign) There’s also the Sydney Royal Easter Show, the largest annual event in the country. Farming communities showcase their crops and livestock, and urban dwellers get to experience a slice of rural life. The two-week show (always spanning over Easter weekend) also includes rides and the Sydney Royal Rodeo. South America: Many Latin American countries, Brazil, and certain regions of Spain participate in The Burning of Ju- das. Residents make an effigy (or multiple effigies) of Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, and burn it in a central location. Sometimes, people make the effigy explode with fireworks. dress up like skeletons and reenact scenes from the Passion. The last skeletons in the parade carry a box of ashes with them. Bermuda: Bermudians celebrate Good Friday by flying home-made kites, eating codfish cakes, and eating hot cross buns. According to Bermuda-Online.org, the tra- dition is said to have begun when a local teacher from the British Army had difficulty explaining Christ’s ascension to Heaven to his Sunday school class. He made a kite, traditionally shaped like a cross, to illustrate the ascension. The traditional Bermuda kites are made with colorful tissue paper, long tails, wood, metal, and string. Page 2 Kudos To All Of You! 1. Raphael has the best attitude every day - Anonymous 2. Brandon helped an elderly couple who couldn’t find their vehicle. He got the keys, found the car and pulled up valet style, so helpful to everyone. - Anonymous 3. Raphael - appreciated the team spirit in staying to help out Sat 3/2 Thanks so much! - Donna Z 4. Jazzy Robles always has clean rooms and excellent resident care. Often receives praise from residents - Anonymous 5. Jenny Eagler for her great team spirit on Sat 3/3 Her dedication to our residents is just outstanding. And thanks for staying and helping your co-workers and residents on 3/7. You brighten our evening shift. Many thanks! - Donna Z 6. A big big kudos to Esther Frazer for being an amazing asset to our team. Your dedication to our residents shines like the angel you are. You rock - Donna Z 7. Shout out to Stewart Wilson CNA agency- Big kudos for working with our team in giving our residents great care on 3/3 greatly appreciated - Donna Z 8. Amanda always goes the extra mile for your residents - Anonymous 9. Brenda night shift- always supportive and friendly love the hugs they go a long way - Anonymous 10. Jenny Eagler- excellent documentation, reliable, prompt, has great ideas and insight to things hap- pening on the floor and how to improve them. - Anonymous 11. Breanna- so nice and very good to all of the residents - Anonymous 12. Linsy you’re one of the warmest people and very compassionate with your residents - Anonymous 13. Jasmine you are always there to lend a helping hand with a smile - Anonymous 14. Jackie - great worker always picking up hours when we need a helping hand - Anonymous 15. Trish one of the hardest workers I know - Anonymous 16. Brenda from day shift- you are one of the kindest CNA’s here - Anonymous 17. Bokoni is so dedicated to his job, he will put in extra time. He really cares about his residents - Anonymous 18. Holly, thanks for the support and helping when we need it. - Anonymous 19. Donna housekeeping- does such a great job- wonderful person. - Anonymous 20. A special thank you to Autumn on Saturday the 16 th for going above and beyond with joy! - Anonymous New to Zerbe We want to welcome to following residents, who have joined us since January of 2019 January February March Lois Kern Ella McHenry Dorothy Walker Dennis Mast Helen Huyett Fred Mattson Frank Donohoe Maryann Falin Lois Junto Ida Klaassen Shirley Plank William Lewis “April is a promise that May is bound to keep” ~ Hal Borland Volume 1, Issue 4 Page 3 Clinical Spotlight Dementia Care Dr. Aloysius Alzheimer discovered a form of Dementia in the late 1800’s, by autopsy and his assessments of his patients and realized that his patients had lesions on their brain tissue made up of 2 different proteins that caused a “miscommunication” in the brain. Some of the same assessments he used back then are still used today for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Approximately 5.8 million Americans have Alzheimer’s Dementia. Worldwide there are over 50 million people living with Alz- heimer’s and other Dementia’s. Alzheimer’s is the number one cause of Dementia and is just one type of Dementia, there are many others, as well as certain diseases that are associated with Dementia. Dementia is not a specific disease, it’s a term that describes a group of symptoms, some of the symptoms include: 1. Memory loss, forgetting dates and events, asking for the same information over and over with increasing forgetfulness. 2. Difficulty planning or solving problems, such as balancing the checkbook with number calculations or planning schedules may become difficult. 3. Difficulty completing familiar tasks at home such as working the appliances at home, or forgetting what TV channel you watch every day, or driving to a familiar location and it doesn’t seem recognizable. 4. Losing track of dates, seasons or just passage of time. You might forget where you are and how you got there. 5. Difficulty reading, judging distance, and determining color or contrast, difficulty with driving. 6. Difficulty following or joining a conversation. Stopping in the middle of a conversation and not know- ing where to pick up. 7. Misplacing or losing items and not being able to retrace steps to find them. 8. Changes in decision making or judgment decisions such as giving too much money away, or paying less attention to their normal grooming or self care. 9. Removing yourself from your normal sports, activities or hobbies. You avoid being social because the symptoms you are experiencing that make you comfortable. 10. Mood changes such as feeling confused, suspicious, depressed, fearful or anxious. Easily upset at work or at home with friends or places out of their comfort zone. There are other causes of Dementia, such as vascular dementia, which can be caused by strokes, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Diabetes. Other forms are young onset Dementia, alcohol related brain damage, and HIV related deficits. Other causes of Dementia may be related to Parkinson’s disease, which is called Dementia with Lewey bodies, Huntington’s dis- ease, and Multiple Sclerosis. Diagnosis requires physical exam with mental, psychological and neurological exam by a physician or physicians. MRI or CT scan of the brain can also be used to diagnose Alzheimer’s type Dementia. There is no cure for Dementia or a way to slow or stop the progression, however, there are medications to help treat the symptoms of Dementia. There are also treatments for behaviors, such as removing triggers, eliminating environmental stimulation.