Activities at Fordmill Care Home

We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games.  

Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.

Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

As part of our International Women’s Day celebrations, Residents from across our services were thrilled to join tour guide, Mandy Morrow, for an exciting talk about some Legendary London Ladies.

Mandy shared the fascinating stories of eight ladies with us, from the one of the richest heiresses in the world to the original 'Roaring Girl'.

Everyone who participated truly enjoyed the experience and were delighted to take a walk down memory lane.

Across the country our homes and hospitals came together to find out which care home or hospital had the best Bingo players as they teamed up for Barchester’s Bingo Bonanza.

Residents were treated to some exciting virtual games of Bingo as part of Barchester’ very own game show series.

Everyone who participated had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

We continue our monthly virtual trips and this month we took our residents on a delightful trip to Morocco. Our residents are always looking forward to the day of the trip and many of them like Doris wake up early making sure she is ready when the time comes to attend the event. We do our best to create this virtual experience for our residents as some of them used to leave abroad or love to travel around the world, or never been anywhere else than Scotland but they would have loved to go. Every month we choose a country to explore based on our residents choice and we “visited” quite few places so far. Next trip is Zimbabwe as one of our residents lived there for more than 50 years and we can’t wait to see this beautiful country.

We love spreading love around our home not just on Valentine’s Day, but every day. There is always a lovely friendly atmosphere in our home but today you could feel the love in the air. Everywhere you look there were happy smiley residents and staff.  The home was lovely decorated with red hearts and red roses as the symbol of love and it looked absolutely beautiful. Our residents had a lovely afternoon tea with home baking cupcakes, sherry and plenty chocolate. There were family and friends joining our afternoon too and everyone had a great time.

It is very important to keep our residents in contact with our younger community and we have a special intergenerational relationship with St Margaret Primary School. The children visits our home and entertain our residents with songs and poetry or just sitting with them in our beautiful lounges and having a chat. The bond of friendship between them is very beautiful and they both have a great time. Two of the children have their great granny in our home and it makes their visit to Fordmill even more special. The kids bring a lot of joy into the home and is great to see our residents so happy.