St John of God helps disabled residents experience life with 70m water slide

The team at St John of God Halswell and The Granada Centre recently hosted a series of events in the 2018 summer featuring a giant 70m water slide. Along with providing a fun activity for residents and volunteers and caregivers, the activity stems from our resident-focussed Model of Care, aimed at supporting people living with disability to live and experience life.

Every day as we live work and play, we expose ourselves to variable levels of risk to achieve important goals and experiences in life. For people living in residential care, risk is often something understandably eliminated in the interests of health and safety management.

Our giant 70m waterslide is just one way we support residents to engage in activities that expose them to elements of managed risk, to help them reap the rewards of the challenge and the experience.

The giant water slide is the product of the service’s My Life Model of Care, supporting residents living with disability to live and experience life. Search “St John of God Hauora Trust” on YouTube to see the activity and the truly interdisciplinary team who came together to make this activity a fun day for residents.

See the video on our YouTube  channel at https://youtu.be/iyPN_B2ffJ0.