We had 24 members today. It was also lovely to see our volunteers Annette and Melvyn. Lisa welcomed everyone and then James was ready to start the session. After a few songs however James had some technical issues today for 10 minutes and therefore Lisa rescued the situation by playing a couple of songs from the Lisa & Mark Karaoke Show. James then took over again and all was well.

Richard then continued with the Yoga exercises which everyone enjoys and then he also does a quiz. Today’s quiz was to name the artist and the title of the song from the lyrics. Richard had to hum a couple of the lyrics to give a bit of a clue. It was great fun and our winners today were Gina and Chris and Pam and John.

Lisa then called out the Bingo numbers and today's winners were Keren and Frances.

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We had 20 members this evening and we also had one of our Trustees Valerie and we also had a visitor from Carlton Court Care Home – Andrew Wrench –Community Development Manager.

Lisa first started by welcoming everyone and said that whilst we were going to try out some ‘breakout’ sessions, she informed everyone about her previous meeting and how the Zoom ‘breakout’ sessions just didn’t work and people were getting lost. Lisa mentioned that this was something that needed to be looked at further and tried at a later date especially as she had some updates to deliver.

Lisa first mentioned that after her Council Health Board meetings today regarding the up to date infection rate in Barnet, she was pleased to report that the infection has gone down but we still need to be very careful. Lisa also mentioned about a new COVID strain from Denmark derived from mink that have re-infected humans. This also applies the same in Italy and therefore the UK Borders are now closed so that there is no risk of this new strain entering the UK.

The new vaccine that has been recently developed from Pfizer and BioNTech would probably not have any effect on the new strain. Lisa mentioned that it is certainly good news that there is finally a vaccine that may be ready by the end of December and Councils are preparing for sites so that people can attend and be vaccinated. The vaccine will be delivered in 2 doses and it is important during the doses that people continue to be very careful until the body has had time to develop the antibodies.

Lisa then continued to inform everyone about a search that can be made on Google ‘A Break from caring – Barnet Council’ and from this search everyone can find different information that has been discussed in previous weeks. Everyone made a note about this. This led to other questions raised from everyone on the various topics and Andrew from Carlton Court was also able to respond to some of the concerns raised by members.

It was also mentioned by everyone in the meeting how much they really enjoy the Lisa & Mark Karaoke Show and how this has made a huge difference to their loved ones being able to singalong. In fact it was requested to have more sessions of the same if possible.

This was a very interesting meeting and everyone fed back how helpful the meeting was.

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We had 21 members today. Lisa welcomed everyone and then started the Lisa & Mark Karaoke session. Members are really enjoying this and so much good feedback is being received to say that even the most progressed of members with dementia are enjoying to read the lyrics and singalong.

Lisa then changed the order a little today and called out the Bingo numbers after the karaoke as she had another meeting she needed to go to at 4pm. Today’s Bingo winners were Stephen and Brenda.

The session then followed with Sian who does the exercises with the members. Everyone really enjoy exercising with Sian as she has a different twist to what she does which also includes some line dancing and salsa for those who want to. Mark who had to take over to close the session wished everyone a happy rest of the day and reminded them of the carers session later and the session tomorrow.

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We had 25 members today and it was lovely to welcome again Lawrence from Rotary Club Hendon, Christine from Rotary Club Roding and Sheila from Rotary Club Golders Green. Lisa announced sadly the loss of one of our members Ella. She did in fact come to our zoom session 2 weeks ago to visit and it was so lovely for all the members to see her and Ella was also very happy to see friends. Everyone was very sad to hear that she passed away.

Ian our music entertainer was ready with a new improved sound system today and also played some Motown music which everyone really enjoyed. Eon our exercise instructor then followed and surprised everyone with some Greek music to start with for the warm up and then followed on also with some Motown music which was great to exercise to.

Lisa then did a quick picture quiz asking members to see if they could recognise from the pictures what the horror film was called. This was a bit challenging and members needed some clues. It was still fun though. Lisa then called out the Bingo numbers and todays winners were Muriel and Ivor.

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Lisa was unable to take the meeting today as she had a family emergency, Mark ran the session which run smoothly ending with Bingo and the winners today were Karin and Corrado.

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  1. Carers zoom meeting - 3rd Nov 2020
  2. Vitual Dementia Club session - 3rd Nov 2020
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