Activities at Flowerdown Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Flowerdown Care Home
Flowerdown Fun at the Quays
AHOY MATEY!
This week our residents at Flowerdown hopped on the minibus and were taken to the historic dockyard at Portsmouth where they set off on a boat trip from Gunwharf Quays.
Our residents donned their life jackets, took their seats and enjoyed the beautiful boats that were passing by.
The sun was high in the sky, the waves were tumbling and there was a slight breeze to ease the hot summer sun.
It was such a treat so much so, some residents wanted to go again AND faster!
Enable Live!
Enable is now live at Flowerdown.
Enable is a new person centred digital support platform which is a very efficient and important part of everyday life at Flowerdown.
To celebrate this new digital era, we had an amazing cake which was a lovely treat for all of our staff here.
Our General Manager Claudia thanked all the staff for their time and dedication away from their usual duties to ensure a smooth transition over to the new digital platform.
Garden Centre story
We have a number of our residents who have a keen interest in gardening and we planned from a discussion following a residents meeting a trip out to a garden centre.
Fortunately it was a lovely sunny day so we got to enjoy going out in the mini bus, and looking at all the plants for sale we had a milkshake in the garden café to cool down as it was such a hot day!
Marcus singing Story
Marcus is a regular singer who comes to us a Flowerdown, he sings all kinds of a mix of songs, from the rat pack to football songs!
He always makes us smile and laugh as he likes to have lots of banter with us.
We choose Marcus as our singer as he likes to talk to us about all sorts of things which makes us laugh in between his songs.
As you can see from the picture below we always have lots of smiles when he is around!
Flowerdown Fun with Finkley Weeke Pre School
Here at Flowerdown, we know how important it is to develop intergenerational relationships between communities and residents. Our friends at Finkley Weeke Pre School and Nursery paid a visit to our residents where they delighted in storytelling, magic tricks and Oscar winning performances of song and dance. Lots of giggling and mischief was had and we wouldn't have it any other way!
Alapaca Madness
Flowerdown had the most wonderful guests for a visit this week allowing some chin tickles, lots of smiles and amusement along with some up-close encounters. It's not every day you get to meet an alpaca, so we certainly know how to make the day interesting here at Flowerdown. We recognise how important animals are to socialisation, communication and overall wellbeing. We think Caramac and pals get it too!
