Activities at Drummond Grange Care Home

Across our homes we had a fantastic time joining, Kathryn Delve, Master Florist, for a Valentine’s-inspired live virtual flower arranging demonstration. Kathryn shared brilliant and creative ways to decorate our tables with beautiful flowers that are sure to make your heart swoon!

Those participating in this virtual event put their skills to the test and followed along with some amazing creations of their own.  Residents truly enjoyed the experience.

We celebrated life of our Scottish bard with designing and weaving our own tartan, coming up with our own Scottish poetry, testing our Scottish knowledge with a quiz before settling in with a good old Scottish singalong with wee dram in hand. We had our friend and piper Struan come along to give us o few songs on the pipes before tucking into some yummy dinner prepared by head chef Chris Lewis starting with Haggis Bonbons with whiskey mayo then a choice of Haggis Neeps and Tatties or stovies and finishing with the Scottish classic Cranachan.

Always one to love a themed day when Head of Activities Katie found out it was international squirrel day we just had to celebrate. Turns out there is not to many squirrel based activities so we started the morning with painting watercolour squirrels in the forest then in the afternoon we challenged ourselves to a squirrel based quiz which we were shocked to find out the squirrels sweat from their paws and that there are 285 species of squirrels.

We love supporting residents not only achieve their goal but achieve their dreams too! We regularly ask and update the resident’s dreams and wishes and put a real focus on supporting our residents to achieve them. 

To bring in the new year in try Drummond grange style we held a big party to celebrate. To start the day each unit was challenges to come up with an outfit for one of the staff to wear containing something beginning with each letter in NEW YEAR. They were all encouraged to be as inventive and creative as possible leading to some very interesting outfits. We played silly games and finished the day with a singalong to well and truly start the new year of right!

Across our services residents had a fantastic time during a special live virtual event, led by Emilia from Medical Detection Dogs. Emilia took us on a journey to discover how the organisation began training dogs to support people with complex health conditions, saving their lives on a daily basis.

Using their amazing sense of smell, these dogs can identify odour changes emitted prior an episode and alert the person to take preventative action.

We were introduced to the wonderful dogs and the science behind the sniff.  It was a delightful experience for everyone, especially our canine-loving residents.