Activities at Crandon Springs Care Home

Here at Crandon Springs our team have recently joined a meeting with Sporting Memories Foundation to under more about how the scheme can benefit our residents.

Sporting Memories Foundation for 10 years have been using the power of remembering and talking about sport – along with physical exercise – to tackle dementia, depression and loneliness. They are dedicated to bringing together older adults.

Sporting Memories offer group or 1-2-1 based activities for our residents to enjoy either with other residents or by involving family and friends.

There are over 120 Sporting Memories Clubs across Scotland, Wales and England. The supportive, welcoming and structured sessions they offer are proven to help build cognitive resilience for those living with dementia. Mental and physical well-being increases too.

We look forward to working in partnership with Sporting Memories Foundation.

Residents and colleagues at Crandon Springs' Care Home in Wells have been celebrating a fellow residents special birthday. 

Gwyneth was one of Crandon Springs first residents and she has recently celebrated her 95th birthday with us. 

Our birthday girl was present with a lovely bouquet of flowers and card signed by all the residents and colleagues at the home. Our activities Co-Ordinator, Tracey did an educational talk on the history of Gwyneth's birth date - including information on the solar eclipse the day she was born!
 

Barchester’s Crandon Springs, from Wells, got into the Christmas spirit by joining a virtual afternoon of festivities along with the staff and residents at over seventy Barchester care homes across the south of England, Jersey and the Isle of Wight.

Crandon Springs' staff and residents pulled out all the stops by dressing up in their glittery Christmas best to link up with all the other care homes in the south of the country for a whole host of different fun activities culminating in the Barchester Big Quiz of the Year. When they weren’t quizzing, residents enjoyed a feast of festive foods prepared by the home’s chef, Stuart.

General Manager, Natalie, said: “We’ve all had a challenging year so we wanted to ensure the Christmas celebrations for our residents and staff were an extra special treat. ‘Meeting up’ with the other homes virtually has given them all such a boost. We’ve all had so much fun letting our hair down, everyone really enjoyed the afternoon.”

Here at Crandon Springs we are extremely fortunate to have Michael, our music therapist join us every week for our residents living with dementia.

Today Michael has focused our session on infamous Christmas carols and songs. As our video shows, our residents have had a fantastic time.

This morning at Crandon Springs our residents have been handing out gifts for our colleagues here. In a way of saying thank you for their dedication and hard work throughout the year our colleagues are receiving a selection of gift cards, chocolates and fizz!

Follow our Facebook page for more festive celebrations over the next week!

Our residents have recently received some personalized Christmas Cards from the students at Wells Cathedral School in the City. Whilst the children have been busy personalizing more cards for the community, our local Mayor, Philip Welch, Kate Norris & Kat King have been busy hand delivering the cards across the city just in time for Christmas. 

Joan, one of our residents here at Crandon Springs said "I think it is lovely to link the two age groups together at any time of year, but particularly Christmas! It has brought the home such a sense of joy and community spirit!"