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.
Amidst these unprecedented times we celebrated the only way we know how, together as one extended family! With our flags at the ready and the homemade cakes going down a treat, a sing along to finish and now our party is complete Please click on the link to see some of our wonderful celebrations VE Day Celebration.
Abbeydale care home has been helping to reduce loneliness among older people – simply by sending a postcard. Residents at Abbeydale Court Care Home signed up to participate in the Postcards for Kindness initiative and they also teamed up with youngsters from West Park Nursery and Chatelherault Primary, who helped them write their postcards. Lynn Adam, wellbeing coordinator at the care home, said: “The Postcards for Kindness group was founded by Louise Baker and now has 27,000 members.It involves care homes all around the world and we were one of the first in Scotland to join this group. It allows residents to make and send various cards to other care homes and is a great topic of conversation over a cuppa. It has had a fabulous reaction, with our residents reading their mail, and indeed writing postcards, as it brings back lovely memories for them.”
The pupils and residents enjoy meeting up regularly and celebrating the initiative at the care home.
Cromwell Care Home had a fantastic day where they were joined by the team from Huntingdon County Council, to plant 3000 snowdrops in the walled garden. They were also supported on the day by 20 personnel from USAF Alconbury to help us complete this task.
The USAF in the afternoon enjoyed a wonderful time with the residents decorating bird boxes and planters ready for spring. The residents enjoyed their time reminiscing about time either spent in America or their time in the military service, many of which were based in East Anglia aside the USAF.