We aim to make it possible for our residents to live their lives as fully as possible. The assessment process encourage potential residents to share with us as much information as possible about their social, cultural and leisure interests, as a basis for us to develop a Social and Activity Plan tailored to the individual to ensure that during their period of residence in the home is enjoyed to the full.
We help residents to continue to enjoy as wide a range of individual and group activities and interests as possible both inside and outside the home, to carry on with existing hobbies, pursuits and relationships, and to explore new avenues and experiences. All residents are entitled to use the dining room, the communal lounges, other sitting and circulating areas, and the grounds of the home, but those who wish to, may remain in their own rooms whenever they like. Residents are encouraged to personalise their own rooms with small items of furniture and other possessions, and we try to follow individual preferences in matters of decoration and furnishings.
Group Activities
Group activities take place each week day morning and afternoon in the main communal lounge. These include:
Bingo
Skittles
Reminiscence
Quizzes
Memory games
Armchair exercises
Carpet bowls
Word games
Personal Hobbies
A range of materials is available for personal hobbies, including equipment for:
Knitting
Gardening
Art work
Weekly Exercises
(Ideas for group activities and requests for materials/equipment for personal hobbies are always welcome.)
The home’s facilities include well-stocked bookshelves and writing materials in the Quiet Lounge and sitting areas in the garden. A selection of newspapers is available daily.
There may be a charge associated with some social activities and services; where this applies, the details will be made clear to the resident in advance.
Relatives, friends and representatives
Residents are given every possible help to maintain the links they wish to retain with their families and friends outside the home, but can choose whom they see and when and where.
If a resident wishes, their friends and relatives are welcome to visit at any convenient time to the resident and to become involved in daily routines and activities.
The resident and visitors are free to use all the communal facilities and rooms or meet together privately in the resident’s sitting room.
If a resident wishes to be represented in any dealings with the home by a nominated friend, relative, professional person or advocate, we will respect their wishes and offer all necessary facilities.
Food and Drink
We recognise that food and drink play an important part in the social life of the home. We try to provide a welcoming environment in the dining rooms and to ensure that meals are pleasant unhurried occasions providing opportunities for social interaction as well as nourishment. As far as possible we encourage residents to choose where they sit in the dining rooms, and meals can be served in the residents’ own rooms if desired. Three full meals are provided each day, there is a regularly changed menu for lunch and the evening meal, residents are always offered a choice at meals, we cater for special and therapeutic diets as agreed in each resident’s care plan, and care staff are available to provide discreet, sensitive and individual help with eating and drinking for those needing it. Snacks and hot and cold drinks are available at all times. We aim to make all of the food and drink we provide attractive, appealing and appetising, and to mark special occasions and festivals.
Local Community
We try to ensure that the home is a real part of the local community, so in principle we encourage visitors to the home, representatives of voluntary organisations, students, school children and others. Naturally, we respect the views of residents about whom they want to see or not to see.
We aim to make it possible for our residents to live their lives as fully as possible. The assessment process encourage potential residents to share with us as much information as possible about their social, cultural and leisure interests, as a basis for us to develop a Social and Activity Plan tailored to the individual to ensure that during their period of residence in the home is enjoyed to the full.
We help residents to continue to enjoy as wide a range of individual and group activities and interests as possible both inside and outside the home, to carry on with existing hobbies, pursuits and relationships, and to explore new avenues and experiences. All residents are entitled to use the dining room, the communal lounges, other sitting and circulating areas, and the grounds of the home, but those who wish to, may remain in their own rooms whenever they like. Residents are encouraged to personalise their own rooms with small items of furniture and other possessions, and we try to follow individual preferences in matters of decoration and furnishings.
Group Activities
Group activities take place each week day morning and afternoon in the main communal lounge. These include:
Skittles
Reminiscence
Quizzes
Armchair exercises
Carpet bowls
Word games
Personal Hobbies
A range of materials is available for personal hobbies, including equipment for:
(Ideas for group activities and requests for materials/equipment for personal hobbies are always welcome.)
The home’s facilities include well-stocked bookshelves and writing materials in the Quiet Lounge and sitting areas in the garden. A selection of newspapers is available daily.
There may be a charge associated with some social activities and services; where this applies, the details will be made clear to the resident in advance.
Relatives, friends and representatives
Residents are given every possible help to maintain the links they wish to retain with their families and friends outside the home, but can choose whom they see and when and where.
If a resident wishes, their friends and relatives are welcome to visit at any convenient time to the resident and to become involved in daily routines and activities.
The resident and visitors are free to use all the communal facilities and rooms or meet together privately in the resident’s sitting room.
If a resident wishes to be represented in any dealings with the home by a nominated friend, relative, professional person or advocate, we will respect their wishes and offer all necessary facilities.
Food and Drink
We recognise that food and drink play an important part in the social life of the home. We try to provide a welcoming environment in the dining rooms and to ensure that meals are pleasant unhurried occasions providing opportunities for social interaction as well as nourishment. As far as possible we encourage residents to choose where they sit in the dining rooms, and meals can be served in the residents’ own rooms if desired. Three full meals are provided each day, there is a regularly changed menu for lunch and the evening meal, residents are always offered a choice at meals, we cater for special and therapeutic diets as agreed in each resident’s care plan, and care staff are available to provide discreet, sensitive and individual help with eating and drinking for those needing it. Snacks and hot and cold drinks are available at all times. We aim to make all of the food and drink we provide attractive, appealing and appetising, and to mark special occasions and festivals.
Local Community
We try to ensure that the home is a real part of the local community, so in principle we encourage visitors to the home, representatives of voluntary organisations, students, school children and others. Naturally, we respect the views of residents about whom they want to see or not to see.