Leisure and recreation activities play a key role in enhancing the quality of care that Cook Care provides for each resident. Cook Care understands that moving to an aged an aged care facility can be a time of enormous re-adjustment. Our Diversional Therapy programs play an important role in settling our residents, introducing them to new friends and giving them meaningful and enjoyable things to do.  

Each facility has at least one dedicated full- time Diversional Therapist or Recreation Activities Officer to program activities at each of our facilities. Our programs are individually tailored to needs of our residents and often include:

• Physical - yoga, stretching, dance
• Mental - trivia, games, craft, painting.
• Social - themed days (Melbourne Cup, Mother’s day), BBQ’s, Happy Hour
• Emotiona l- music, reminiscing, singing
• Spiritual - visits from pastoral carers as requested
• Outings in our Cook Care bus- drives, picnics, movies, concerts

All of our Recreation Activities Officers consider the needs, interests and abilities of our residents when planning activities and we welcome input and involvement from families and friends. As one of our Recreation Activities Officers' said, ‘It is the chance to have some fun and laughter that makes my job so rewarding”.