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Carveth Care Centre (retirement lodge and long-term care home) has a clear health status. General visitation is allowed; masks must be worn. If you do not feel well, please refrain from visiting until you feel better.  

For more information about our home, please contact:
Director of Care Shelley Bender: 613-382-4752 ext.103 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Owner/Operator/Administrator Brett Gibson: 613-382-4752 ext.102 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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News

The latest news and announcements from Carveth Care Centre in Gananoque.

31
Oct
23
Reaping the benefits of music therapy
No matter what your personal experience is, music serves as a universal language. You may not have expertise in music but you still identify with the melody, harmony, rhythm, and lyrics in music. All of us have the capacity to be emotionally moved by a piece of music. Music brings people together as a community and nation. It connects and motivates us. Carveth Care Centre’s music therapy program for residents, in partnership with Find Your Voice Music Therapy, engages residents in goal-oriented interventions that are both meaningful and therapeutic. Our…
31
Jul
23
Gardeners know, flowers bring people together
Tucked behind a long-term care home in Gananoque is a peaceful garden to comfort people who are palliative. “It’s a peaceful little spot,” says Pam Welbourn, one of several volunteers who care for the space. “It brings comfort to people.” Speaking from the popular home in mid-June 2023, the 88-year-old Gananoque woman says she enjoys volunteering in the garden that is adjacent to the home’s palliative care room. Lead by Julie Taylor, it is one of many activities by the Gananoque Horticultural Society. “I love gardening; I have a big…
06
Jul
23
Carveth resident recounts Millennium Trip for culture club
Connie Paddle travelled to Europe more than 20 years ago and still remembers it like it was yesterday. “I had a ball,” says the 86-year-old from her room at Carveth Care Centre, a long-term care home in Gananoque. “I would love to go back to Paris, France, and Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.” Connie is looking forward to recounting her trip to Carveth Culture Club on July 11. The club has been celebrating different places and countries around the world for almost two years. Launched in the fall of 2021,…
06
Jul
23
Summer Family Fun Day
The Summer Family Fun Day at Carveth Care Centre is going to be a lot of fun. Please join us at 2 pm on July 19 in our back parking lot for an afternoon of music, food and family fun. To RSVP, please contact our Activation Department at 613-382-4752 ext. 107.
07
Jun
23
Heather Wilson shares tender farewell as Unit Clerk
Heather Wilson has a remarkable memory; ask her for the phone number of a person who works at Carveth Care Centre, and she can recite it without hesitation. Heather joined the popular long-term care home as the first Unit Clerk approximately four years ago. Her duties include scheduling, staffing, and coordinating care conferences. “I enjoy my job,” says the friendly Elgin woman, a few days before her official retirement as Unit Clerk on May 31, 2023. “I like the interaction with staff and the entire Carveth community. The environment here…
03
Jun
23
Home celebrates Family Council Week
An integral part of long-term care is a body of people called Family Council, a group of volunteers who make homes closer and stronger. “As a volunteer, Family Council has provided me the opportunity of having a voice in making a contribution to assist all residents and their caregivers,” says Deborah Tindal, Council Acting Recording Secretary, and family member of a resident at Carveth Care Centre. “I’ve enjoyed meeting and supporting long-term care, family member caregivers, hearing and discussing their concerns, and sharing ideas. I’m hoping to make a difference…
02
Jun
23
Carveth Culture Club to celebrate the wonder of India this June
Carveth Culture Club is travelling to a land where the cows are sacred, and the Taj Mahal is a new world wonder. A fun program at Carveth Care Centre, a retirement lodge and long-term care home in Gananoque, the Carveth Culture Club has been studying the beauty and wonder of countries and places around the world for almost two years. This June, members will learn about India. As the seventh largest country in the world, India extends from the snow-covered Himalayan heights to the tropical rain forests of the south.…
01
May
23
Carveth Culture Club to study China this May
Residents in a long-term care home in Gananoque will be travelling virtually to China this May via the Carveth Culture Club. Held at Carveth Care Centre, the club is composed of residents eager to learn about the diverse people and places around the world. The program has been popular with residents since it started approximately two years ago. Helen Taylor, a resident at the home for the past 10 months, moved to Hong Kong from Canada with her family in July 1980 when her husband was transferred there for work.…
11
Apr
23
Carveth Culture Club travels virtually to Jamaica
A popular program at Carveth Care Centre, a long-term care home and retirement lodge in Gananoque, is taking a tropical vacation in April -virtually, that is. Carveth Culture Club is celebrating the beauty and wonder of Jamaica through Phyllis Fish who took a two-week trip to the Caribbean Island before she moved to the popular home. “I loved every minute of it,” says Phyllis when asked to reminisce about her trip to Jamaica’s north shore. Phyllis says her fondest memory of Jamaica is dancing to Moon River under the stars.…
01
Mar
23
Carveth Culture Club to study Egypt this March
A popular program at a nursing home in Gananoque is travelling virtually. Called Carveth Culture Club, the program has proven popular with residents who learn about a new country or place every month. This March we feature Egypt - the land of the pharaohs. A new resident at the home, Dr. Ron Lees worked in Egypt approximately 35 years ago (for one month a year, for three consecutive years) with a specialized team of eight colleagues from across Canada. Ron was a Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston,…