Activities at Elgar Court Care Home

Residents met up with friends at Great Malvern Priory this week whilst enjoying the Christmas concert by Malvern Parish School. You may remember that this delightful school named our three communities in our home at Elgar Court when we first opened, and we always look forward to this school's activities.

Resident trips outings each week are always looked forward to by everyone, and the festive spirit at Great Malvern Priory is always enjoyed in our close Malvern community.

Darren is one of Barchester's highly valued peripatetic senior Chefs, and today is sadly his last day with us. 'Peri teams' as they are nicknamed, understand the Barchester way of life to maintain our high expectations and are invaluable to ensure life in our home is uninterrupted for our residents.

We will all be sad to see Darren go, and hope he enjoys his chocolates and John Lewis voucher from us as a token of our appreciation. Good luck Darren and we hope you drop in and see us again!

Oyez, oyez, oyez!!!  We took part in Malvern town's Christmas light switch on event and met our lovely community!  

Pictured here is Mayor of Malvern, Cllr Marilyn Birks and Mike the Town Crier.

As part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Remembrance Sunday, we welcomed back the D-Day Dollies this week to sing and dance to wartime favourites from the 1940’s! And they sure did put a spring in the step and a song in their hearts of our residents who sang and danced along to this special event to mark Remembrance Sunday and we are always thrilled . Vintage song classics included, the Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland, and the inimitable Dame Vera Lynn, plus many others - the ‘Dollies’ setlist really is the soundtrack of an amazing generation.

Here at Barchester Healthcare Care Home in Malvern, Residents, Staff and our local community have been busy knitting squares to make blankets for the Charity ‘Operation Orphan’ who send aid to many war torn countries. In the past two months nearly 300 squares have been made into 7 blankets which are on their way to Ukraine ready to keep young ones warm this winter. Maddie Jones who led this activity for Elgar Court said, "Children especially are dear to all our hearts and we hope to continue to support it in future years . Operation Orphan is based in Nottinghamshire and exists to keep orphans and children safe, warm, healthy and learning".

Wool has kindly been donated and Residents have enjoyed knitting and crocheting over a cup of tea, knit and natter or just enjoying relaxing in each others company.

If you want to join in with our free Community Craft Cafe, come along and try your hand at something old or something new!

All that Glitters is Golden!

Today all the residents and staff have been laughing and joking making decorative baubles, and of course a little drink or two to enjoy!

Our General Manager Sarah joined in the fun and spent time with our lovely residents throughout the afternoon, as the festive spirit got under way. These decorations will go very nicely with the beautiful christmas decorations that have been out together by Sarah our Head Housekeeper (pictured here by one of her trees in reception).

And of course Alice (who is 105 years young!), enjoyed making her baubles with a sip of Baileys to keep her festive spirit up!

We always celebrate our resident's birthday with cake and a tipple and this week is no exception! Birthdays are not only celebrated with our residents and their families, but also for our resident to enjoy with their friends at Elgar Court.

Would you like to enjoy a few weeks over the festive period with reliable help, wonderful 24 hours support with excellent food and events to enjoy with new friends?  

 

At our home, we are available to give you and your loved ones a relaxing festive holiday and peace of mind.  Contact our caring and highly trained team on: 01684 211720

Sherry comes from the area of Spain around the town of Jerez or Xeres, in the southwestern corner of the country. It used to be called Sherish during the 500-year-long Moorish occupation — the word sherry comes from the Moors' word for Jerez.

We talk a lot about enjoying Sherry here at Elgar, and as it is National Sherry Week this week, we tempted our residents to get in on it by enjoying the fortified, and sometimes oxidized wine, from Spain.

To go with our selection of fine Sherries, we paired these with platters of Spanish Tapas (courtesy of Waitrose) while we gave our residents 17 fun facts abut Sherry!

One of the cornerstones of our life enrichment program is cultural exploration with Residents, and by choosing genres such as wine tasting, means that we are able to constantly improve life in our home.

We have been writing down our favourite memories to go on the Memory tree we made. Our residents spent the morning laughing and chatting as they put together our home's Memory Tree and fastening the tags with their special memories to them.

Sharing memories and celebrating the times we have together are so important, and we love hearing everyone's times gone past and hopes for the future!

We invited the Malvern Men's shed to our home to celebrate International Men's Day in 2025. This day is celebrated worldwide with various events aimed at recognizing men's contributions to families, workplaces, and communities.

But as we welcome everyone and are inclusive, we also had the pleasure of welcoming representatives from the Women's Shed too! Both of these groups are open to everyone in the community and brought along some of the wonderful items made by it's members.

Our residents were delighted by the items and getting to know them and we are looking into how residents can become more involved with their activities.

Out and about to St Peter's Garden Centre this week, and a browse around their wonderful displays of christmas displays and gifts. Our residents always look forward to the variety of outings our home puts on and - there was even a chance for residents to get their photo in the bauble!

This year the organisers behind the national poppy appeal are hoping to raise more than £50 million to support members of the UK’s armed forces community. Each year, they help over 7,000 people from the Royal Navy, Army and the Royal Air Force, with financial and emotional support.

We are always pleased to support and host events to support our veterans, and were delighted to welcome the Malvern Veterans to our event this week and stay for lunch with residents afterwards. Pictured here are Jerry and Liz, Bill and Peter from the Malvern Hills Armed Forces and Veterans Breakfast Club

Residents had a fantastic time celebrating World Pasta Day on October 25th, and whipped up a selection of tagliatelle pasta for chef to make into a pasta salad dish.

Everyone had a brilliant time trying out other new shapes and Susan and Hugh couldn't wait to to take part too! We all had great fun talking about our favourite types of pasta and the best accompanying sauces.

Hugh said, "cooking is my favourite hobby and I have always loved Italian food, I don’t think there are many people that don’t! I can't wait to try the pasta salad and I think we should have pasta day every month!”