Activities at Harton Grange Care Home

Staff and residents across our homes were treated to an interactive virtual Christmas-inspired table decorating masterclass, courtesy of talented master florist, Kathryn Delve.  

Kathryn is an independent florist based in Somerset, she specialises in creating unique wedding and event flowers.  She takes much of her inspiration for her displays from the beautiful scenery that surrounds her home and the changing seasons and colours.

During the workshop, residents were invited to join Kathryn to make beautiful Christmas-themed table decorations. 
 

Residents across our services had a lovely time joining Emily and Marie-Therese from the Wallace Collection, for a virtual introduction to Reubens' Rainbow Landscape.

Residents truly enjoyed the sensory walk through one of the museum’s most famous landscape paintings.

Everyone who joined had a wonderful experience and can’t wait to put their creative skills to the test by painting some landscapes of our their in the coming days!
 

At Harton Grange we spent the afternoon with friends and families having fun. In recognition of World Alzheimer’s Day we encouraged people to become Dementia Friends with the Alzheimer’s Society to help with a wider understanding of how everyone can support people living with Dementia in our care homes and communities. 

Music is so important in enhancing wellbeing and supporting reminiscence for people living with Dementia so in collaboration with the global campaign 'World Rocks Against Dementia' and 'Purple Angels charity' we had a pick and mix music session where each resident picked 'a song from the hat' and we enjoyed a sing along with a cup of tea and some fantastic home baked cakes.

We were invited to Hawthorns Care Home to attend their memory cafe. We had so much fun. The cakes and treat were delicious and the music had us all singing and dancing. We also met some lovely people and made new friends. It was a great morning, Dot, Ann, Nancy and Diane send their thanks and love to everyone involved at the Hawthorns.

Meeting new people and connecting new friends is important to the residents. Enabling them to connect with others and share common interests and conversations allow a friends to grow and flourish. We are going to be continue to visit and hopefully invite the Hawthorns to our very own memory café. 
 

Tonight, we had our Pie, Peas and Bingo evening. All our residents and families had a lovely evening and of course Dot called the numbers. Joy and Liz would like to thank everyone who came along to the evening, it was great to see people enjoying themselves with their families.

Today we went to Elm Tree Garden Centre with our friends at Washington Grange Care Home - Barchester Healthcare for some hot drinks and cake. It was a wonderful morning and we had coffee and caramel cake. It was nice to get out and get some fresh air and sweet treats. It was also lovely to chat with the wonderful people for Washington Grange hopefully we will meet again soon.