Our homes offer a wide range of activties and trips tailored to our residents preferences and interested. This includes a range of trips to local attractions, cinema nights, exercise classes to improve wellbeing, through to live performances from musicians and bands, and pets visiting the home.
A shaggy old arthritic dog named Ted is being used as a therapist for patients with dementia in a care home in East Ham. The 12-year-old Shi Tzu is taken to Manor Farm care home each week to encourage residents to be active and help them feel calm and relaxed. Ted lets them walk, cuddle, […]
Football fans in the 66-bed home on High Street were eager to support their local youth team after the club was desperately in need of a kit sponsor. Sylvia Duz, Manager of the Abbey Healthcare home, said: “The club got in touch to see if we would be interested in supporting one of their teams […]
Residents at Elmcroft Care Home, in Tolleshunt Major, had a surprise delivery of cheery artwork from a primary school almost 90 miles away. The residents at the 52-bed care home were delighted to receive colourful pictures of rainbows and animals sent as a random act of kindness from King’s Oak Primary School in west London. […]
Residents at the 60-bed Primrose Hill Care Home in Huntingdon have been taking regular trips down memory lane thanks to the new addition of an old-fashioned sweet shop trolley and scents that stimulate their senses. Talcum powder, shoe polish, flowers and candyfloss are among the smells evoking memories of going to school and trips to […]
Primary school pupils are writing their way into 2024 after popping into Kendal Care Home to share letters they had written to residents. Armed with homemade Christmas decorations, 19 pupils aged seven to 11 from St Cuthbert’s Catholic Primary in Windermere read letters they had written about their summer holidays. Fergal said: “Having the children […]
The residents of Abbey Healthcare’s Cromwell House Care Home watched as the chicks hatched and, after feeding and caring for them for only a day, have decided to make them permanent residents. Sylvia Duz, Manager of the 66-bed home on High Street, said: “Recent research shows how hens can improve wellbeing and reduce any loneliness […]
Four staff from Abbey Healthcare’s Primrose Hill Care Home strode out in their walking boots on one of the hottest days of the year to raise money for two therapy dolls for their residents with dementia. Complete with cribs, pushchairs, bottles, and nappies the baby boy and girl dolls are now being enjoyed by residents […]
Our Heron Hill Care Home all ready with their flags a waving high and excitement building as they join Heron Hill Primary Schools KS2 for their Coronation parade and picnic!
With their banners and flags up and the tables laid our Farnworth Care Home residents are set and ready for a right royal knees up!
It’s going to be a posh affair at our Aaron Court Care home with a true celebration in style. Residents, families and friends in posh attire in readiness for a beautiful 3 course luncheon. Chink chink everyone
