Frost Manor residents
strive to create fine dining experience at nursing
home
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
-- Natalie Miller
Accustomed to entertaining with fine china, polished
silverware and crystal glasses, residents at Frost
Manor want to create a similar dining experience
where they live now.
The Lindsay long-term care home’s residents’
council have made the purchase of glass water
and juice containers, cream and sugar bowls and
other fancy items to dress a table a recent priority.
“This is the way our residents used to
entertain,” explains Jean Chilton, nutritional
care manager at Frost Manor.
“That’s what we want to give back
to them.”
To assist the residents’ council in purchasing
the items, Jean, together with life enrichment
co-ordinator Vi O’Leary and a group of volunteers,
organized a fundraising turkey supper at the long-term
care home Thursday. Fresh turkey from Jean’s
hobby farm, homemade stuffing, apple and pumpkin
pies were among the dishes on the menu.
Frost expected 35 residents in attendance, with
some bringing as many as five family members or
friends each. The nursing home advertised the
event in the local newspaper and church bulletin,
in hopes of attracting other community members
as well. Residents paid $5 for the meal and their
guests paid $10. Jean says residents agreed to
the $5 charge, saying they would expect to pay
if dining out a restaurant. Residents who chose
not to attend were served a regular meal before
the supper began.
Staff dressed the tables with cloth linens, as
well as doilies and glass candle holders, already
purchased by the residents’ council. The
fancy table dressings will be used at special
occasions including the home’s sweetheart
supper for Valentine’s Day, its annual volunteer
luncheon and Mother’s Day tea.
“We are working with them to purchase real
glasses for special occasions to dress up the
tables.” The goal is create an “elegant”
look “like going out to a fining dining
room” but in their own home.
Organizers hoped to raise about $500 through
the dinner tickets, a 50-50 draw and pie raffles.
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