Emma Hird
14 November, 2024
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Staffordshire care home residents mark World Kindness Day

HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home in Burntwood, Staffordshire, is celebrating World Kindness Day on November 13, 2024, by highlighting and appreciating the good deeds care colleagues do to spread positivity and kindness to others through simple acts of kindness.

Anthony Robbins, resident at Chaseview Care Home

Residents at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home are celebrating World Kindness Day by discussing what kindness means to them. Residents discussed with each other what kindness personally means to them and wrote their statements down on a piece of paper. 

When asked what kindness means to him, resident Anthony Robbins, aged 85, who lives at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home, said: 

“Kindness to me is being given a cup of coffee in the morning with a nice smile from someone who cares.”

Gloria Farnell, resident at Chaseview Care Home
Gloria Farnell, resident at Chaseview Care Home Credit: HC-One

Resident Gloria Farnell, aged 97, who lives at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home, stated:

“My father always used to say good manners is having consideration for other people.”

Resident June Sheasby, aged 82, who lives at HC-One’s Chaseview Care Home, commented:

June Sheasby, resident at Chaseview Care Home
June Sheasby, resident at Chaseview Care Home Credit: HC-One

“Being kind means doing things for other automatically without expecting something in return.”