Activities at Hollyfields Care Home
Our Activities programme is formulated using resident requests and feedback from resident meetings. Residents are involved in planning the programme with things they they would like to do throughout the year. There is a mixture of activities that take place including both group and 1-1 engagement. Residents at Hollyfields particularly enjoy movement to music activities enabling them to increase their level of physical abilities and have fun at the same time, whilst others enjoy musical singalongs and food based activities throughout the week.
We have a mini bus that enables us to reconnect our residents with their community in ways that suite themselves as individuals. This can be achieved by visiting local farms, Georgian towns, local attractions and even the local public house for lunch with friends. Hollyfields have a great relationship with their local community and have visits from local organisations such as The Wyre Community Land Trust and are currently undertaking a 12 week funded project from Arts Etc. Residents at Hollyfields enjoy Pet Therapy visits from their pet rabbit 'Thumper' and like to help clean and feed him daily. Relatives can be encouraged to join us for activities and again are very supportive with delivering theme days and fundraising events within the home.
Kayleigh White
Kayleigh joined the Hollyfields care team in February 2021. She's a a very conscientious young lady, who is passionate about the wellbeing of all our residents.
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 Hollyfields Care Home
Autumnal Walks
Residents at Hollyfields enjoyed the early signs of autumn as they went out into the grounds and fields to stretch their legs and enjoy the fresh air.
Namaste Sessions
Residents enjoyed a morning of therapeutic activities whilst listening to some calming and soothing sounds. Residents who wouldn't usually engage did so with the use of our iPad, making kaleidoscope images with the their fingers. The use of the robotic cat offered some companionship for a lady who missed her own pet and reminisced about when she had to shake its food to try and get him to come home
Musical Moments
Residents enjoyed a morning of reminiscence fun with Ellie from Musical Moments, singing & laughing whilst sharing beautiful lyrics from their favourite songs.
BBC Music Day
Staff, residents and visitors got together for a day of music and singing to celebrate BBC Music Day. There was live vocals from David Lawrence and reminiscence gun with Ellie from Musical Moments.
Getting to Know Me
Residents and staff sat down today for a different take on the classic board game ‘Snakes & Ladders’. The game is called ‘Getting to Know Me’ and is part of the Dementia 10-60-06 accreditation at Barchester.
Instead of up the ladders and snakes we drift up in a balloon and go down in with anchors. Once the dice was rolled, the colour that is landed on will correspond to a coloured card that asks a simple question about the person, for example: ‘What name do you prefer to be known as?’ or ‘What makes you happy?’.
Staff and residents shared information and stories about themselves. All the information from the game will then be added to the residents own personalised ‘Getting to Know Me Book’ which is used as a live document to record new memories they make whilst living at Hollyfields.
Neigh-Ver Too Old
We spend time horsin' around recently, when Rupert the horse came to visit. Residents, staff & relatives were pleasantly surprised to see their new saddled friend from BE-Equine roaming around the home and visiting people in their own rooms.
