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SAT resident filling important gap for staff members
'Adrian's Express Delivery Service' providing 'extreme value' to home
5/17/2013
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Deron Hamel
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An in-home courier service offered by St. Andrew's Terrace resident Adrian Robinson (pictured above) has been valuable to staff members.
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Life at St. Andrew’s Terrace doesn’t slow down for Adrian Robinson — it’s go, go, go from dawn to dusk, and that’s the way he likes it.
For Robinson, 38, it has been a challenge to find age-appropriate activities at the Cambridge long-term care home. When he brought this to staff members’ attention they worked out a way they could help each other.
Robinson was eager to keep busy and staff members had jobs they needed done. In particular, care products and interoffice mail must be sent around the home throughout the day, but staff members rarely have time to do it.
This is where Robinson is filling an important gap.
Throughout each day he can be seen zipping around the home in his power chair, getting products to front-line workers and saving them valuable time.
Robinson is so busy that he and staff members are using two-way radios to communicate. But no matter how busy he gets, Robinson always finds time to visit residents along the way, a testament to his friendly nature.
To make Robinson’s job official, the home’s life enrichment department has designed a plate on the back of Robinson’s power chair that reads “Adrian’s Express Delivery Service.” Robinson’s mother recently provided the home with some shirts resembling those worn by Canada Post staff to identify Robinson as he makes his rounds.
St. Andrew’s Terrace RN Cindy Craig sees first-hand the positive difference Robinson’s work makes to the resident and staff members.
“Adrian wakes up each morning anxious to get started at his job,” Craig tells S&R Today.
“This meaningful busy task both improves the quality of life of our youngest resident at St. Andrew’s Terrace, and it truly provides a service that has extreme value to our staff.”
Craig notes that St. Andrew’s Terrace is working with Shoppers Home Health Care to find a new basket for Robinson’s power chair so he can courier larger items.
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