Activities at Elgar Court Care Home

Meet Cherry Hill, MBE, our first resident to move into Elgar Court.  Born in Malvern, Cherry was a Model Engineer trailblazer in her time.  Known for her detailed scale models of steam vehicles, Cherry is considered to be one of the greatest model engineers of all time, and has built nearly 20 detailed scale models of steam vehicles, including Victorian models - which each took her approximately 7,000 hours to make, and are fully operational. There have even been numerous books and magazine articles written about Cherry and awards!

We are honoured Cherry has chosen to live with us, and enjoy daily life in our home.  From enjoying daily exercise, music concerts and trips out to name a few, Cherry has fully embraced the easier way of life at Elgar Court – including our lovely home baked chocolate cakes!

Life is what you make it, and it doesn’t stop when you move to our residential home – it gets better! 

This week, residents popped into our local Waitrose for a coffee and a browse around to stock up on little extras. Joan was a frequent shopper at the Malvern branch and all staff knew Joan and stopped to talk to her.  Life’s little pleasures are connecting with people and making their day – and Joan certainly made their day as they had all missed her!

We had the pleasure this week of entertaining our Malvern policing team Becky, Dave and Kevin.

Residents enjoyed hearing how Malvern is a lovely safe place with them in charge, and seeing demonstrations of their policing toolkit – handcuffs, body cameras, smart water tagging sprays, tasers and batons!  And of course, reassured that these are not needed with the good folk of Malvern!   

However, Maria our Activities Co-ordinator felt what it’s like being on the wrong side of the law when she tried on the hancuffs!  Luckily PC Dave had his keys and safely handed our beloved Maria back to us!

Thank you for coming to see us, and please do call by again and use our “Take a Break” service that is open to all our Emergency services workers.  We offer complimentary refreshments to eat in or take away to all local Police, Nurses, Doctors, Fire teams and Ambulance crews – We look forward to welcoming you soon!

Maureen, Alice and Rosemary are one of our many residents who enjoy their fortnightly trip to one of the cornerstones’ of Malvern, the Library.

Maureen (92 years), is a regular visitor who enjoys choosing her own books and using enjoying the friendly and community atmosphere at the library. 

Today we were helped by staff member Sarah who very kindly spent time setting up a new library membership for Rosemary and, looking for large print, and light to hold books for Alice. 

Alice has now decided to download the BorrowBox App onto one of our many touchscreen tablets at Elgar Court, so she can read from or listen to one of the many free Ebooks and audio books on this App.   It’s a wonderful resource for people like Alice (103 years ) who just want to make life a little easier for themselves – just like living in our home.

Thank you to the kind and helpful staff at Malvern Library.

Residents of Elgar court, enjoyed a masterclass in flower arranging in the comfort of their own home.  As well as the demonstration, residents actually did their own flower arrangements alongside the floral expert.  These will now decorate our café and reception across our Valentine celebrations, bringing the scent from outside into the home.  Maureen (92), having never been done this before, was delighted with her results of her efforts! 

In preparation for Valentines day, our residents enjoyed a morning masterclass of handmade chocolate confections.   The demonstration started with filling the shells of chocolate moulds, and the residents chose the flavours for the fillings.  They all enjoyed taste testing and are looking forward to the finished products on Valentines day at our Valentines concert.