Activities at Caldy Manor Care Home

We have been to Chester zoo for a numerous of times over the last few weeks and it’s been such a wonderful experience. Getting out into the community is such an important part to our wellbeing. Conversations of memories flowed and it was wonderful to watch new memories being made. Residents still speak to each other about their experience at the zoo and compare it to others.

Residents decided for carers week they wanted to make something that showed their appreciation and that it can be kept for staff to always look back on. We wrote thank you notes for the staff and printed out pictures of staff enjoying themselves with eh residents. It was lovely to hear of all the residents memories they had of the staff and being able to thank them.

We had an amazing day when we was treated to an afternoon of entertainment of three beautiful parrots. We got ready for the occasion by wearing pirate hats, eye patches and learnt some facts about pirates. We all had an opportunity to hold and feed these wonderful birds whilst asking questions and learning all about them.

Who doesn’t love some ice cream on a hot day. We took advantage of some beautiful warm weather and got the ice cream out. Our chef was delighted to get all the toppings and flavours out and help the resident’s choose and create their own ice cream.  Choosing their own ice cream  brought conversations up about when they gave their children ice cream and listening to the ice cream van music coming in to the road and all the children run and ask their parents to buy them one.

We had the pleasure of meeting Kate for our first chair yoga session. We do exercises quite regularly but residents had requested for a professional to get a different take on their exercise regime. Kate really made it extra special and brought different exercises to suite our resident’s needs. We listened to some relaxing classical music that was chosen by our residents that we moved along to. One of our residents said “ since we have been doing these exercises I have really noticed a difference in the level of movement I can do. My arm can reach a lot higher now and I really enjoy our exercise classes”.

We had a lovely afternoon down at New Brighton. We ordered some fish and chips from the chip shop and stopped off in our minibus somewhere with a wonderful view of the River Mersey. We set our  picnic table in the van and served out the fish and chips along with some bread and butter. We finished our lunch off with some homemade cake made by our fabulous chef and tea and coffee. It is always such a fabulous day out in the minibus as it brings back some wonderful memories. One resident said “ I used to love to come down here with my boys. They used to run round on the grass and we used to finish the day off with an ice cream”.