abstract: Joan Parsonage (left) will be sending out 27,000 Christmas cards this year. That's because the 83-year-old resident of a Bupa nursing home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, has had her festive design (inset) chosen from 200 entries to be the company's Christmas card for 2008. Joan has enjoyed painting from an early age and runs a weekly art class for other residents at the home. Bupa is the largest operator of care homes for older people in the UK and runs 304 nursing and residential homes with more than 21,000 registered beds - more than 25 per cent of which are registered for specialist dementia care.