CareMalta employees complete Higher Diploma in Gerontology and Geriatrics
Three CareMalta employees – Edel Borg Mizzi, Renata Zahra and Yasmine Seguna – have successfully completed the Higher Diploma in Gerontology and Geriatrics (HDGG) from the University of Malta. Ms Borg Mizzi and Ms Zahra are lead care assistants at Zejtun home and Villa Messina respectively, while Ms Seguna is active ageing coordinator at Casa […]
Father watches kids’ virtual dance every night during lockdown
Boban Spasic, who works in the maintenance department at Roseville, joined the Vassallo Group in 2007. Before Roseville, he also worked at Villa Messina. Married to Valentina, Boban has two children, Theodora, 5, and Andrei, 2, and lives in Bugibba. “The very first time I joined the lockdown, it was hard for my daughter to […]
A patchwork quilt woven with love
When a team of people wakes up together, lives together, works together and sleeps together, it’s only natural that strong bonds form, new relationships are born while others strengthen even further. This what our employees have experienced over the past 10 weeks, a hard but beautiful experience with each other and with their residents. As […]
Mother and son reunite with father after nine weeks
Suitcases in hand, Sanja Senderak and her son Lazar left Zejtun Home on May 16, nine weeks after having moved in, as part of a project by CareMalta to protect the elderly residents against the coronavirus. A total of 841 employees have taken part in this voluntary initiative since it was launched by the company […]
Dedication and commitment till the very end
I remember writing my very first blog, when our employees joined the elderly in their residential homes to live with them and protect their vulnerability at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far, results have been worth all the sacrifices made by our frontliners during this painstaking time. In a tweet on March 31, […]
Working hand in hand: All for one and one for all
Members of the team at Bormla Home have one thing in common – they are happy only if they see that their residents are happy too. The elderly home, one of nine operated by CareMalta, has been locked down for the past nine weeks in a bid to protect the vulnerability of the residents during […]
Mother, grandmother and great-grandmother celebrates a century of life
Turning 100 on May 12 has been a different kind of birthday celebration this year for Maggie La Ferla, who is a resident at Casa San Paolo, an elderly home run by CareMalta in Bugibba. Together with other residents, the centenarian hasn’t been able to see her family for almost two months now. But this […]
Special closeness creates one-of-a-kind relationships between staff and residents
Last week started on a relatively positive note, with the health authorities easing some of the coronavirus restrictions, making life slightly more bearable for everyone. But caution to practise social distancing persists, as Malta, together with the whole of Europe, enters a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since March 16, CareMalta employees have been […]
Staying safe is all resident thinks about
Before moving to Malta, Eva Kornelia Kover, of Hungarian origin, spent 30 years living between the UK and Germany, where her husband was based and ran his business. Having lived here for the past 35 years, she considers Malta to be her home and has only words of praise for CareMalta’s management, who were the […]