Activities at Beaufort Grange Care Home
Activities are an integral part of life at our care home. We want to ensure that the people we support have as much fun as possible during their time with us, so it’s important that our activities programme is created with the interests of residents in mind. Our skilled Activities Coordinators bring a certain uniqueness to the home that can’t be found anywhere else, and which is reflected in the activities they organise.
Lucy Lock
Hello, I am Lucy and I have worked at Beaufort Grange since 2015, starting as a care assistant I have progressed to senior care assistant and now into my role as an Activities Assistant. It's always a pleasure to keep the residents updated with community activities. What I enjoy about my job is making everyone laugh and keeping residents and staff entertained. You will often hear me singing as I walk down the corridor!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Beaufort Grange Care Home
Word Games
We have been enjoying one of the simplest yet most stimulating and social games in our activities schedule, the time-honoured Scrabble. S
Settled comfortably in the lounge, residents have exercised their minds and derived satisfaction from their word creations, while enjoying each other's company and chatting as they went.
But, of course, no one was giving anything away when it came to the words they were thinking up!
Bounce
A very traditional game has become a popular part of our morning activities – table tennis. A few of our ladies have really taken to it, knocking the ball back and forth while either standing or seated.
It brings fun, laughs and, if anyone wants it, a bit of competitive action. The enjoyment extends to audiences, too. Whenever the ping pong table is set up in the lounge, there are always some onlookers to enjoy the heroics of the lady players!
Map Game
A few residents were clear in wanting to play the map game. With their mind focused on a map of the United Kingdom put up on the board, they were invited to draw on the map to show where they were born, along with other places that prompted memories, which they then described to the others.
COVID-19 Vaccinations
Residents and staff at Beaufort Grange have received protection from the coronavirus with their first vaccination jabs.
They received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which was rolled out by the government recently following its authorisation for use by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regularity Agency (MHRA) at the end of December.
The vaccinations were administered at the home on 11th January, with a date for everyone’s second booster jab yet to be confirmed. Care home residents and staff, along with others who work in social care, are amongst the government’s stated priority groups for the vaccination.
There were no obvious anti-needle phobias on display, as residents and staff waited to receive the vaccine. If anyone did feel a bit squeamish, it was kept private and under control, with everyone understanding how worthwhile the vaccinations are.
Receiving the jabs indeed represents an important development for everyone at the home. It marks the beginning of a healthier, safer, happier future – and hopefully protection will be administered soon throughout the UK and around the world as vaccination programmes get fully under way.
After Christmas
Our first activity after the Christmas festivities was painting. Using many colours they could express feelings conjured by Christmas which, of course, had been very colourful in its own right. It was as though, subconsciously, they wished to continue with colourful thoughts to counteract the dullness of winter!
To Be 100!
It is difficult perhaps, for most of us to imagine how we would feel on our 100th birthday.
Joyce has recently become a centenarian at Beaufort Grange. She has a wealth of memories and, when asked to recall any particularly wonderful ones, she was happy to share with us all.
It is a beautiful thing when people are able to keep friendships close within their hearts throughout a lifetime, and to remember those friendships as some of the most beautiful things in their lives.
Needless to say, for Joyce’s 100th birthday celebration, we were inspired to decorate the lounge in a manner worthy of such a special day for her and her family, who were allowed to join her, given suitable social distancing. Our Head Chef turned out sandwiches, small cakes, crisp, fruits, tea, coffee and, of course, a beautiful birthday cake.
There was much happiness and for Raji Sunil, General Manager, and other staff. The biggest reward was to hear Joyce say that she had had a wonderful day, and to know that we had managed to lay the foundation for a very happy celebration.
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