HEIDEN HAPPENINGS FEBRUARY 2021 From the Care Manager’s Desk Greetings to all our residents, families, and friends of Heiden Park Lodge. Hello2021 to is all underway our residents and & at their the families, time of writing this report NSW has seen 10 straight days of no community transmission of COVID 19 cases, so let us all Wekeep have our received fingers the crossed results that of the it recentstays thatResident way. and However, Family/Carer this ofSatisfaction course Survey. Thank you for participation. Please be assured all areas of low satisfaction are beingcontinues reviewed to need and anthe action wider plan communities will be developed to be responsible to address andthese careful. issues. A copy of the graphed results and the corresponding Action Plan will be displayed on the NoticeboardOn a sadder in notethe front I would foyer like for to your extend interest. our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Mrs Vera Ribalkina who sadly passed away on the 23rd of January. KindVera Regards, had lived at Heiden Park since September 2016. God Bless her and may Sueshe Haley rest in- peace.Care Manager We warmly welcome Mrs Po Kuen Li, Mrs Aileen Clegg, Mr Barry Begbie, Mr Albert Engelhardt and Mrs Xiandi Wang to Heiden Park Lodge. We hope you enjoy living at Heiden Park. Inside this issue: Happy Birthday wishes to Care Manager 1-3 residents Mrs Brenda Willetts, Mrs Tatiana How to make a comment/complaint 2 Ivachev and Mr Ban Kim. We hope you all have a History of St Valentine’s Day 4-5 simply fabulous birthday. Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward 6-7 The solar panel work is just about Katharine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy 8-10 finished. However, they will need to shut down the electricity supply Chinese New Year 11 to the building to finalise the installation. This will also require Puzzles 12-17 shutting off the generator to Main Wing News & Calendar 18 -19 prevent it from starting up and generating power. They are just Carinya Wing News & Calendar 20-21 finalising whether they can manage the work on 1 day or at worst 2 Photos 22 -23 days. Most likely being Wednesday 3rd February and/or Thursday 4th Goff Wing Calendar 24-25 February. The maximum time of the outage will be 2hrs but will Goff Wing News 26 only take that long if they encounter a problem. It is planned Partnerships in Care 27-29 to turn off the power between 1pm Recipe 30 – 3pm. Page 2 HEIDEN HAPPENINGS From theComments Care &Manager’s Complaints Desk In response to the impact of COVIDTim 19to andwrite the related visitor restrictions and expectations of the Aged Care Standards, Residential Aged Care facilities are required to create systems and processes that recognises existing relationships and establish agreements between the resident, a partner in care and the residential aged care service. Where a resident chooses to have a partner in care, that person may be involved in the delivery of services to, and the day to day care of a resident e.g. family member, wife, husband etc. I have taken the liberty of attaching a Fact Sheet produced by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission for your information. Please see pages 27-29 of this newsletter. An expansion of the legislation for aged care providers to report Elder Abuse commences in February 2021. The Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) is a new initiative to help prevent and reduce incidents of abuse and neglect in residential aged care services subsidised by the Australian Government. The scheme requires aged care providers to identify, record, manage, resolve, and report all serious incidents that occur, or are alleged or suspected to have occurred. One of the main differences in the requirement is that when there is a physical aggression altercation between residents with dementia or a significant cognitive impairment, diagnosis no longer falls under “Discretionary Reporting” previously it was deemed those effected by dementia could not be held accountable for actions they may no longer understand or have the ability to understand the risk of injury or harm to others. Last but certainly not least, the UPA Board recently decided upon several significant changes within the structure of UPA Corporate Office. • A new Organisation strategic plan was approved • The General Manager’s title has been changed to Chief Executive officer (CEO) • The senior roles in Corporate Office will now go under the titles of Executive Manager for, Home Care, Residential Care, Retirement Living, Technology, and Finance. • A new position, Executive Manager Operations has been created. • Additional positions of HR Partner, Policy Officer and Admin Assistant were also created FEBRUARY 2021 Page 3 From the Care Manager’s Desk The new role of Executive Manager Operations has been taken on by our Regional Manager, Tim Thorndyke. Tim’s current position will be advertised and filled by March and in due course you will all get to meet his replacement. Tim will remain in his current role until a new candidate is decided upon. We wish Tim well in his new endeavour and of course he is not gone as we will still see him in his new role. Till next time…. stay well and happy Kind regards Judy Oblein Care Manager Page 4 HEIDEN HAPPENINGS HistoryComments of St Valentine’s & Complaints Day Every February, across the country,Tim tocandy, write flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday? The history of Valentine's Day -- and its patron saint -- is shrouded in mystery. St. Valentine's Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. So, who was Saint Valentine and how did he become associated with this ancient rite? Today, the Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men -- his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, Valentine actually sent the first 'valentine' greeting himself. While in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl - - who may have been his jailor's daughter -- who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signed 'From your Valentine,' an expression that is still in use today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories certainly emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic, and, most importantly, romantic figure. It's no surprise that by the Middle Ages, Valentine was one of the most popular saints in England and France. While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial -- which probably occurred around 270 A.D -- others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. FEBRUARY 2021 Page 5 History of St Valentine’s Day To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D. The Roman 'lottery' system for romantic pairing was deemed un-Christian and outlawed. Later, during the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of February -- Valentine's Day -- should be a day for romance. In Great Britain, Valentine's Day began to be popularly celebrated around the seventeenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century, it was common for friends and lovers in all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes.