Activities at Hafan-Y-Coed Care Home
We understand that the people we support have passions and interests that could be difficult to pursue after moving into a care home – but that doesn’t mean we don’t encourage them to try! Some hobbies can define a person, so our Activities Coordinators are dedicated to ensuring that everyone we support is able to do what makes them happy to the best of their abilities. Social events are organised with individual tastes in mind and with the idea that residents have the opportunity to try new and exciting things.
Marie Spires
I'm Marie, the lead activities coordinator for Hafan Y Coed. I have been the activities coordinator for nearly three years and am passionate about encouraging the wellbeing of our residents. Ensuring all abilities are catered for in a bespoke schedule is paramount to their individual wellbeing needs. I am joined by Clare and Sue who also help to create a life enrichment program suitable for all communities.
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 Hafan-Y-Coed Care Home
Trip down memory lane on Local bus tour
A wonderful was had by all three of our communities, with three bus trips for some of our residents to various locations.
Our first trip was to the local garden centre to pick up some flowers to plant at our gardening club. The residents picked their favourites for their garden.
Our second trip before the rain came was a trip for an ice cream on the beach! We even treated a few of the cars parked next to us which made their day!
Our final trip was a trip down memory lane on the bus around Llanelli, pointing out the sites of well-known landmarks around the centre. It was lovely to reminisce and this group also enjoyed a final ice cream at the beach to end the day!
Pudding Club
Another successful pudding club was held this month. Our challenge was, who could make the best traditional Victoria sponge. Volunteers and residents prepared their recipe's in teams and got together to discuss the best method to create the best result. These baking sessions provide great reminiscing benefits about favourite cooking memories and also great for socialising and nutritional benefits during the tasting!
We also held a demonstration baking session where our newest volunteer explained how to make the perfect sponge. One of our residents said "I used to be a cook in a school and I used to make hundreds of sponges each week, I still enjoy cooking now".
Another resident said "I like to watch the baking and enjoy the eating part!"
Our winner was a young boy called Rogan, who was thrilled to score a fabulous 10/10, scored by our residents and awarded with a prize and Hafan Y Coed bake off champion. Well done to all involved .
Celebrating 200 years of Cadbury
A huge thank you to Cadbury UK who are celebrating 200 years!! We'd like to thank you for the delicious treats you send our care home to sample and for supporting the Alzheimer’s charity in your mission.
Happy 200th birthday!
Now..... who doesn't love the taste of a Cadbury chocolate bar? We know our residents do! We saw a few ‘Willy Wonka’s’ around Hafan y Coed on this day whilst reminiscing about favourite chocolate bars ! Tudor said “I love chocolate, I could eat it all day.”
Whatever floats your boat!!
Residents took a boat trip along the river Tawe aboard the Copperjack in Swansea.
We sipped on refreshments whilst being educated about the history along the way. One of our residents was from Portsmouth and was keen to attend the trip. She said "I loved the trip and it was really interesting to learn the history of Swansea"
During the trip, resident’s reminisced about memories from times they had spent in Swansea and asked question’s along the way.
Everyone enjoyed fish and chips on the way home at famous chip shop Rossi’s and Luckily the weather held out to enjoy the perfect day.
Men’s Treatments in the Salon
We are always looking at way’s to promote our Gents well-being needs. Our men often enjoy a pamper session in the salon and this month enjoyed an afternoon treat of Hot Towel shaves, eyebrow trim’s, facial massage and nail trim. Whilst enjoying the experience they nibbled on homemade pasty’s provided by our kitchen team, washed down with a tipple of choice off the bar.
Mike from our memory lane community said “I’ve really enjoyed the shave and feel really smooth and fresh”
It’s also an opportunity for the men to get together and socialise, by discussing similar interests.
Monthly Pudding Club Goes Down A Treat
Over the last few months we have started our very own pudding club at Hafan Y Coed
The aim of introducing pudding club is to generate foot flow of new faces within the home, by inviting people to attend. The second aim is to generate conversation about memories of favourite recipe's cooked by our residents or their memories of what they enjoyed as a child. It brings back important memories to those living with Dementia with many reminiscing purposes.
So far we have seen the Scarlet's rugby young players attend, the local Mayor and of course our residents families. We have enjoyed various traditional recipe's from jam tarts and apple pie, to lemon cheesecakes and custard slices.
This month we got the kitchen team and staff involved to make a recipe each to be taste tested. There was not one crumb left by the end of the day! Danny said "That Apple and Blackberry pie kept me quiet for at least ten seconds" while Mal said "Can I have another piece of that lemon and ginger cheesecake".
We invite you all to attend next months pudding club in May. Keep your eye on the activities board or Facebook page for updates.
