Activities at Cheshire Grange Care Home

This week we have been celebrating our housekeeping team for the valuable role that they play within our home, by presenting them with a thank you card and a little goody bag, and making purple hearts with messages of thanks from the residents to adorn our sentiments tree.

The team work tirelessly to ensure that our home is kept clean and that residents clothes are taken care of, this is amongst many other things that they do within our home.

The housekeeping team always make time to have a chat with the residents as they go about their duties, and this is always welcomed by our residents.

The anonymous quote couldn’t have summed up our afternoon  Ice Cream Trolley visit any better, comments from residents on all communities were all about memories either from their own childhood or their children’s. The familiar ice cream van sounds of Greensleeves followed us round the corridors, there were little tubs or cones with a flake, a vanilla 99 was the best seller of the day. When Jean was asked if she’d enjoyed her ice cream she was delighted and told us ‘she’d stood in line for it’

We love our music at Cheshire Grange, we have regular entertainers but we also like to invite new acts to entertain our ladies and gents, and Lockdown Ukes were one of our new acts, who did not disappoint it was like they’d always been playing for us. What an afternoon, laughter, smiles, singing and dancing…so much dancing. The ladies and gents were treated to traditional folk songs and popular tunes old and just a little bit older, everybody was ready for the tea and cakes that afternoon!

When the evening sun is shining on the balconies what do sophisticated ladies do ….if they are Cheshire Grange ladies they don their best hats and sun glasses and have an evening ice cream soiree…of course!

International Friendship Day is a global celebration emphasising the importance of friendship and fostering harmonious relationships across cultures and borders. This day encourages individuals to appreciate and cherish their friends, promote acts of kindness, and bridge divides through understanding and compassion. It serves as a reminder to nurture and strengthen friendships, recognizing their positive impact on personal well-being and creating a more inclusive and interconnected world.

To celebrate this day residents at Cheshire Grange put together 'Friendship Hearts' a small gift with a special message, this were then left around Lymm village. We were delighted to receive this email from a little girls Mum, with a beautiful photograph of Evie who found one of our hearts

We have so much creative talent here at Cheshire Grange, we had our very own Art Exhibition to showcase the residents talents.  Our residents have the opportunity to take part in regular art & craft sessions, we always try to make these as age appropriate as possible, and residents enjoy recreating masterpieces and learning about different artists , but sometimes we do just like to get the clothes pegs, fluffy pom poms and sparkly beads out.   

These sessions increase creativity and stimulate the development of new skills, and trigger lots of interesting conversations, and although we don’t focus on the finished piece residents can feel a sense of worth. On seeing the exhibition resident Margaret said, ‘This is beautiful, have we really done all this, it’s like a real show’