A Southport care home is using a rickshaw as a genius way of helping residents to meet their family members amidst tougher new Coronavirus restrictions.
Birkdale Park Nursing Home, on Lulworth Road in Southport, is utilising the method as a way of bringing people together after tougher rules were introduced in Southport and across the Liverpool City Region following the recent rise in cases.
Registered Care Manager Jonathan Cunningham MBE said: “Like a scene from the Great Escape, residents are now routinely seen escaping a Southport based care home using their home rickshaw!
“Birkdale Park Nursing Home in Southport has developed a new approach to the visiting challenge and maintaining relationships between their loved ones.
“Following the Department Health and Social Care guidance that all non-essential visiting must stop we came up with a new idea of using our home rickshaw to get their residents out.”
Birkdale Park with a new approach to the Care Home COVID challenge.
Ingenious carers have established a plastic safety screen between the two passengers to allow a resident AND relatives to enjoy trips out together. No garden visits under a drafty gazebo! The residents are enjoying a warm trip out under blankets and enjoying a hot chocolate or ice cream on Southport Pier.
Jonathan Cunningham said: “It is wonderful to see our gorgeous residents enjoy these expeditions out from the home.
“They are completely safe and everyone enjoys time with their loved ones.
“At a time when some other homes have locked out relatives, Birkdale Park has done the opposite to arrange trips out with their most dear.
“At times like this we have to innovate and think of new ways of maintaining these loving relationships.”
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