No doubt you’ve seen social media posts encouraging you to take your kids trick-or-treating at retirement or long term care homes. Here’s a different perspective on that idea.
At Cadence Residence in Cochrane, manager Tracy Koskamp-Bergeron asks you not to show up in the evening.
“We’ve actually partnered with the schools and we have a couple of classes coming by to trick-or-treat with the residents,” she explains of the daytime only activity. “We’ve prepared little bags up for everybody so that they can see the kids dressed up and they (residents) can dress up and take part in the activity.”
Koskamp-Bergeron says evening time trick-or-treating will be a disappointment for the kids… and possibly disruptive to the residents.
“So for people to bring their children down in the evening, the kids would be really disappointed and I know our residents would feel bad that they didn’t have anything. Every place would be different, I would assume.”
Koskamp-Bergeron says it would be a good idea to call any facility first, before just showing up in the evening.