Activities at Four Hills Care Home
Our activity and lifestyle programme is arranged for all our residents to participate in and is updated regularly based on ideas from our residents group during our resident forum. Our Resident of the Day strategy ensures each person receives at least one day each month where the focus is all about them.
We have a monthly concert and to date this is appreciated and enjoyed by most residents. The Four Hills Taverns is open for business every Friday afternoon and is an area where residents and staff socialise, hold pub quizzes and partake in a little refreshment.
The team at Four Hills try hard to meet everyone's needs and encourage all residents and their families to join in the fun.
Eileen Orr
Eileen joined the Four Hills Family in 1999 and has worked in various roles since. Eileen originally started as a Kitchen Assistant, then moved on to Domestic, before moving on to her current role as Activities Assistant since 2017.
Eileen loves to bring joy to residents lives from putting on meaningful and engaging activities. From in house entertainment to trips out, our Activities team always have something going on to keep our residents engaged and stimulated.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Four Hills Care Home
The New Year piped in by David!
To help celebrate the dawning of a New Year the residents of Four Hills were treated to a visit on New Year’s day from our favourite piper David who thrilled them with traditional Scottish songs, Margaret commented that New Year is a fabulous tradition in Scotland and how great it is living in a care home but still being able to take part and enjoy all these traditions, after the music the resident were treated to a delicious traditional Scottish steak pie dinner with all the trimmings from our fabulous chef and all washed down with a few new year refreshments.
Medical Detection Dogs
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.
Century celebrations
Celebrations have been in full swing at Four Hills, as one of its residents reaches her centenary in style. Janet was joined by staff, relatives, friends and other residents as she received a telegram from the King in recognition of her landmark birthday. Everyone enjoyed a delicious special cake from our head chef Paul.
Janet has been a resident here since January 2018, before coming to Four Hills, where she is enjoying a new chapter of her life. The birthday girl, said she had a wonderful day being visited by all the staff wishing her the best, along with lots of family visits and presents, lovely bouquets of flowers. She said the best part of turning 100 was all the cake she has been eating for days.
A Trip to the Pantomime
What a wonderful night the residents of Fourhills had along with 20 ladies from our weekly ladies group that we go to we all went together to the Pavilion theatre in Glasgow to see the Pantomime ‘Treasure Island’ , we reminisced about taking other children and grandchildren when they were younger, we all laughed the night away. Jane even danced in the aisles and commented it was the best night she has had in years.
The Puppet Gang Scotland
After lots of great festive activities over December this was one of our resident’s favourite’s, we were treated to a great show of puppets and bubbles from the guys at The Puppet Gang Scotland. We had a wonderful afternoon full of laughter, they do say that’s the best medicine, we had special visits from Elvis and Dolly Parton, residents loved seeing the tricks that Pinocchio could do, The bubble show was mesmerising with staff and residents both taking part in the show.
Big Quiz of the Year
All over the country our care homes and hospitals linked up for Barchester’s Big Quiz of the year!
Residents tested their knowledge with a variety of questions, from historical humdingers and musical musings to pictorial puzzlers and connective conundrums.
Everyone who participated had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.
Upcoming events
May
May is the gateway to summer and we have lots of fun filled activities planned - all welcome.
