Activities at Cookridge Court Care Home

Resident, Eileen was thrilled to help dress the Christmas trees within the home to bring festivities to everyone.  Eileen who was delighted to be adding baubles to the tree, and used to manage her own care home in Blackpool. She retired at the age of 84, when Eileen received a letter from Prince Charles in recognition of her tremendous work.

Decorating the Christmas trees brought back many  happy memories for Eileen, as it reminded her of the times when she would do this in the care home that she managed. You could see the joy in Eileen’s face, decorating and producing such a wonderful tree.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  On Friday 4th December the team at Cookridge Court got into the ‘Elfy spirit’ for the Alzheimer’s Society 's National event - Elf Day. Both staff and resident's found it thoroughly entertaining to see everyone dressed up and having fun with many getting in to character in their colourful outfits.

Cookridge Court have a fun filled Christmas themed activity program running throughout December to bring joy, laughter and make memorable memories for everyone as they countdown to Christmas.

Residents of Cookridge Court enjoy their popular themed evenings and whilst it may not be Chinese New Year residents at the home enjoy a shared love of Chinese food so there was no better excuse to create a sociable evening where everyone enjoyed Chinese food together! 

It proved to be a very enjoyable evening and a great success with the room decorated with Chinese ceiling and table decorations and gentle background Chinese music was played.

The taste buds were alight with the many oriental flavours especially prepared by the homes hospitality team.

Young hero and fundraiser, Michael Bottomley paid the residents a visit at Cookridge Court with a surprise, to hand deliver gift packages. Michael aged 12, Sophia aged 10 & Tommy aged 3 had collected toiletries within the community and personally made them up into hampers, gifting them to our residents. This was such a lovely gesture to be made towards the residents at Cookridge Court and with everyone in lockdown, our residents really appreciated such a heart-warming gift from the amazing people of the community.

Cookridge Court would like to say a huge thankyou to Michael, Sophia and Tommy for your thoughts and generosity, you are doing such an amazing thing and putting smiles on so many people’s faces.

Residents and staff at Cookridge Court said a sad but lovely goodbye to their friend and the homes housekeeper,  Eva Wardman after 10-years loyal service at the home.  Eva at the age of 73 had decided it was time to finally take up her retirement. Eva has played an important role in the Cookridge Court family and everyone will miss her but wish her a long and happy retirement.

As the final day appeared, the home had organised a surprise party to say good luck and good bye, Eva’s had a wonderful day and even appeared to have a little tear in her eye as she said “Thank you for the tremendous support from everyone over the years. I will miss you all.”    

In recognition of Remembrance day, the activities team and residents have been working together to create an arch of poppies.  Residents have thoroughly enjoyed painting and colouring in the poppies to create a window display for everyone to see when arriving at the home.

Resident Eric said “ I really enjoyed myself taking part in this activity and it is a really nice touch to the front of the home”

Libby Harte “ It was an honour to create these poppies with our residents and to hear about their personal remembrance story’s too. The display looks really good and the residents are really proud of themselves.”