Hello everyone!

We hope you all had a safe and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

We would like to start the year with a big thankyou to all the residents, families and staff for concluding the year with such a magnificent turn out at our Picnic luncheon, Christmas Carols Evening and other festivities. The Holloway Community is something spectacular and we thank everyone for the support to the Lifestyle Team.

We hope you all enjoyed watching our Christmas trees go up, the festive decorations going around and of course our magnificent Christmas lights displays. A special mention to Santa visiting us on his motor bike, everyone was super excited seeing you ride in!

January is the Lifestyle planning month and we have been conducting an activity survey with our residents. A resident and lifestyle planning meeting was held on Thursday 20th to discuss the results. Our hope is to enable the residents to advise us of the types of things that they would like to include in the program, focusing on more resident initiated activities. Each week the Lifestyle Team will provide a planned activity sheet on each notice board around the home. The planned activity sheet will provide you with the name of the activity, the time in which it will be facilitated and also the venue it will take place. We hope to see as many residents attending the activities as possible and we invite everyone to keep giving the Lifestyle Team your suggestions to enhance our program further.

During the month of January our volunteers take a well deserved break and we look forward to enjoying some great times together in 2022.

February sees us celebrating the Chinese New Year of the Tiger and Valentines Day. After a long absence we invite the Yarraville Mouth Organ Band back to entertain us on 22nd February 2022 a much anticipated concert by our residents.

Lawrie continues to provide regular musical entertainment and this year he will also we offering his time to provide music therapy to small groups of residents. We have four music therapy groups planned and these will be ongoing over the year. Beauty therapy is also having a overhaul and will take place every Wednesday. Ann will join Sam in providing a range of therapies to include facials, nail care , ear care, reiki, therapeutic touch and spa

At Holloway, all of our residents are seen as individuals with specific needs relating to their cultural, social and lifestyle choices.

This of course, is reflected by the way in which they choose to celebrate their birthdays.

Holloway celebrate each resident’s birthday with a card on their special day.

Residents, Family and Friends are encouraged to liaise with the Lifestyle Team should they wish to arrange further birthday celebrations at Holloway.

All visitors are required to show evidence of a negative rapid test prior to entry to Holloway. Each person is required to conduct a test every 72hours. All Holloway staff are also required to have these tests conducted as part of their work requirements. We understand the inconvenience this may cause and thank everyone for their cooperation with this requirement.

As the weather heats up, Holloway aims to keep our facility cool and at the best possible temperature for our resident’s comfort. We ask that all our air conditioners be left at 22c, as well as windows & doors remaining closed to ensure efficiency. Icy poles and extra fluids are made available on days of extreme heat.

The Holloway Christmas Raffle raised an incredible $1052.10 Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets and congratulations to all the lucky winners.

The resident fund raising committee along side Ann have been successful applicants under the Andrews Labor Governments Shade Grants Program. Holloway is excited to advise the funding agreement and all necessary documentation to enable the shade umbrellas to go up have been returned and we are waiting on further advice as to when we can expect the work to start. Congratulation to all involved with the successful application.

Next Residents, Family and Friends Meeting will be held 3rd February at 2pm in the Rec Room, all residents welcome!



Ann West and Tracy Parry

Leisure and Lifestyle Coordinators