Activities at Highview House Care Home

This afternoon some of our ladies enjoyed an afternoon at the Carlton Bingo, Inverness. Margaret used to go to the bingo all the time before she came to us here at Highview and today we got her back to play! She took a couple of her friends Annie and Julianne from Highview along with her and her Granddaughter joined her also. Julianne won 2 full houses and shared a 3rd full house with someone else.

Resident, Christine and her husband Bill had been to see Phil Collins at his Final farewell Tour in Dubai back in early 2000's.  We recreated this for Christine and as you can see, she absolutely loved it.  She also had a little dance with some of the staff.  Recreating these memories is a lovely way to allow us to be a part of their past and their present as part of the homes resident centred activities.  

Annie had found these discs in her bedroom and asked the staff if they could help her find out what was on them.  As always, our staff aim to deliver and we took the discs and had them developed for her.  Annie was delighted to be able to see the pictures of her family that she had not seen for some time and they brought up some great memories for her.

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

It’s National Scrabble Day!  The home was in high spirits as we celebrated the day in style organising inter-home scrabble tournament.  The day finished off with a Scrabble quiz and delicious afternoon treats, which brought smiles and laughter into the home.  Many of the residents take pleasure in playing scrabble and find it relaxing, they also enjoy making new friends along the way.

Sometimes residents ask us for something specific and it is always a great pleasure to be able to deliver.  Barbara, who likes to be known as Ara, asked us if we could let her see Jim Reeves.  We went one better and not only let Ara see him on the television, we got some songs (along with the lyrics) up onto the television for her.  This allowed Ara to sing along to some of her favourite songs and I think you can see by her face that she was absolutely delighted.  Ara has a beautiful singing voice and it was lovely to be able to do this for her.