Activities at Lochduhar Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Activities are the cornerstone of a wholesome home experience and our Activities Coordinators are always putting their creative minds to the test by organising new and exciting social events for residents to partake in. Of course, we take into account the likes and dislikes of those we support, so if someone doesn’t feel like trying something new, there will always be something on offer to reflect their personal interests. For the people who may just prefer some peace and quiet instead, we also offer one-to-one time that can be enjoyed with a nice cup of coffee or just a simple chat – whatever they desire.
Sally Gilder
Sally has been in the care sector since 1998. Sally joined the Lochduhar team in 2018 as a care assistant.
Sally is very passionate about the care she provides and the welfare of the residents. Working as a care assistant Sally was able to get to know the residents wants and needs to provide excellent person centred care to each individual. Then in 2020 Sally found the opportunity to become Head of Activities. Sally feels that she provides a different side to herself to promote an active and inclusive lifestyle through her role as Head of Activities.
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 Lochduhar Care Home
Cheese and wine evening
We held a cheese and wine evening for National Cheese day, which is on the 4th of June. We donned our pinny, and we visited all of our communities. This is quite popular with a lot of our residents.
We played some golden oldies 60s music, like Pretty Woman and Dancing Queen to name a few. We enjoyed different types of cheeses, biscuits, some fruits, pickles and some radishes which our residents grew in our garden here at Lochduhar.
The residents enjoyed a glass of wine or a soft drink. Some residents sat in the communal areas, reminiscing of their own evenings and gardening. We are planning to have another cheese and wine evening soon.
VE Day celebrations at Lochduhar
We celebrated VE Day's 80th Anniversary here at Lochduhar with a garden party. We spent time decorating our gardens in preparation. We welcomed in vocalist John Caskie and accordionist Willie McRobert to entertain residents, family, friends and staff.
They played some old favourites and some war songs. We sang along to some Scottish favourites too, tapping our feet, clapping and dancing.
We held a two-minute silence to pay our respects. Our kitchen tea made a delicious afternoon tea with some Pimms and lemonade. We had a lovely time and the sun shone all afternoon.
Gentleman's Evening
We held a Gentleman's evening here at Lochduhar at the request of some of our residents.
As we gathered together to have a few games of darts, we spoke of the darts tournaments that are on the
television at the moment. It was also international beer day, so we had a few, no alcoholic beers, juices and crisps.
We thought that we would try our best with our magnetic darts. One of our residents did really well and beat. Maggie from our activities team, they laughed together. We then chose to have a few games of dominoes. This can be very competitive, but we all enjoyed ourselves having a few laughs along the way.
Minibus Trip
We messaged the Veterans Gardens to see if we could come and visit them again. They said yes, and they were looking forward to seeing us as we were them too.
When we arrived, they welcomed us and introduced us to the chickens and cockerels they had. They said we could name a chicken and a cockerel if we wished too, so that’s what we did.
We named a chicken Christine and the cockerel Brian. They have distinctive markings, and we hope we can recognise them when we return. We then looked around their gardens, and they told us they were very busy planting. They then offered us a coffee and cake. We sat in their outside area and chatted.
We had a lovely time and felt most welcomed. We thanked them and headed home.
Spring is in the Air!
We have made the most of the lovely weather we’re having and decided to spend the afternoon in our gardens. We donned our summer hats, got ourselves some cool juice and sat in the lovely sunshine.
We took with us some Oomph on Demand Activity books, with quizzes, crosswords and puzzles. We put some music on in the background, and we sang along too.
We spoke of Blackpool and reminisced of our own holidays there. Some of us even visited the Blackpool Tower.
St Patrick's Day!
We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by decorating our home for the party in the evening.
We invited vocalist Gary, to come into our home and entertain us. He sang some Irish songs to us. We got up to dance, we also sang along and tapped our feet. Our kitchen team made a lovely cheese and biscuits board.
We enjoyed some wine and, of course, some Guinness. We had a lovely time celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
