Activities at Bushey House Beaumont Care Home

Residents enjoyed a 60s concert when the LA singers visited Bushey House. All our residents enjoyed singing along to the 60s music and one even got up to dance along to the twist. The L A singers always put on a themed concert for our residents and are a firm favourite at Bushey House.

Residents enjoyed a lunch trip out to a new local Italian restaurant recently . Although our residents enjoy great food at Bushey house, some of them had expressed how much they missed going out for lunch and trying some new foods . We will be looking at other venues and taking more residents who would like this experience on trips out over the coming months.

Residents and staff have been taking part in Get Moving week at Bushey House, as part of the Barchester Get Moving charity event . We have been recording all our steps daily and all movement classes we have taken part in . Staff have been pushing residents in wheelchairs and walking with them while we complete laps of the garden in the sun . We will be ending our week with a community cream tea, live music, cake sale and a raffle on Friday. We are raising money to support Barchester s Charitable Foundation.

Residents welcomed some very special visitors when our friends  at Performing Pets brought some baby budgies in to see us . All our residents loved holding the birds and having them sit on their shoulders . Animal therapy is a great activity that everyone can enjoy and spending time with animals brings such joy to our residents we are all looking forward to seeing who visits us next month.

Wedding celebrations were under way at Bushey House when resident Phillippa got her wish to see her Granddaughters wedding in Spain. Phillippa was devastated, that due to her Granddaughters wedding being held abroad, she would not be able to go, so in true Bushey House style we brought the wedding to her. The home was decorated with beautiful flowers and arrangements were made with Philippa’s son, Marc, to live stream the wedding service all the way from Spain. What’s more family and friends, including the groom’s mother and grandmother who also sadly couldn’t make the trip, were invited to Bushey House to celebrate the special occasion with afternoon tea, glasses of fizz and wedding cake to toast the happy couple. We even created a guest book in which to write personal messages of congratulations!

Philippa was moved to tears by the event and was overjoyed to be able to witness the ceremony live from Spain with her guests and fellow residents. The day was made extra special for her when she got to speak to the bride and groom on FaceTime after the ceremony.

Ian is a resident of Bushey House and a double amputee. Ian has always refused to leave his room or use a wheelchair until this Christmas. Ian’s favourite activity is always the performing pet visits and every month the pets visit in his room and I take a photo for him and print out for him to put on his wall. Last summer I started to suggest it would be nice for Ian to come out in a wheelchair and get his Christmas pet photo by our big Christmas tree for a nice photo for his wall.

After lots of persuasion he agreed on the condition I got him a very fancy Santa suit. On the day with the assistance of the care team we got Ian into his Santa costume and into a wheelchair suitable for him. Ian was in reception by the tree to meet Wilson the baby wallaby and get his special photo in front of the tree. This was the first time Ian had left his room and there was not a dry eye in the home as we saw how happy he was. Following this visit Ian got his special photo which we framed and has pride of place on his wall. Following this Ian also came out Christmas day and joined in the celebrations and has agreed to come out to meet the performing pet every month it has been a joy to see the change in Ian and see him meeting all the other residents.