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
Evening walks
In a recent Residents meeting some of our residents requested that we have some evening walks, now the weather was starting to get better. The activities team got together with the residents and they chose dates and times to go. We are near the old railway track, which we call the cycle path and that takes us from our home round into a circle and back to the home. On the way we saw some lovely gardens, all neat and tidy with colourful flowers. We also saw a few dogs on the way, and they were excited to see us as we were them.
Picnic in the Park
Our residents chose to have a trip out in the minibus to Dock Park.
We took a stroll along the river bank, looking at the river running and the birds, washing themselves and searching for fish. We looked at the blossom on the trees and the colourful wild flowers. We sat at a bench and opened our picnic, which was made by our kitchen team. We enjoyed some sausage rolls, sandwiches, crisps, cherry tomatoes and some tunnock tea cakes, we enjoyed some nice cold lemonade too. We then went for another walk on the other side of the park and into the café, where we enjoyed a delicious ice-cream.
World Cocktail Day
We celebrated world cocktail day by having some live entertainment, with David on the keyboards. We got together and sang along to some memorable songs, smiling, clapping our hands and tapping our feet. We then enjoyed some Cocktails and Mock tails. We had Strawberry daiquiri, Pina colada and Mojito.
These delicious drinks were made by our kitchen team, our residents enjoyed the Cocktails and Mock tails and David who played the keyboard enjoyed a cool Mock tail too.
Gardening Club
We have finally had some wonderful sunshine and we have been able to be out in our gardens. We had already planted some tomato and cucumber seeds in our greenhouses and were surprise to see how quickly they grew. So we replanted them into some grow bags, watered them and we can’t wait to see the end produce.
The Nursery children had recently potted some broad beans and asked the residents to look after them until their next visit. The residents and activity team got together and replanted the broad beans in the high beds, ready for the children to see on the next visit. The residents recently planted some potatoes and onions and they are shooting up well. We also have some strawberry plants that are doing well too.
A Visit from Reggie
We have recently been visited by Reggie, the dog who has just started up with pet therapy.
This was his first visit, he came in with his owner Maggie and he visited residents in their rooms
and around the home. Maggie Reggie’s owner had some treat for him, which the residents enjoyed giving him.
It was very thirsty work for Reggie and he enjoyed a bowl of water. The residents are very much looking
forward to seeing him again, in a couple of weeks’ time.
Northwest Nursery Visit
We had our weekly visit from the Northwest Nursery children.
Our residents always look forward to seeing them. This week we replanted the broad beans into bigger pots with soil. We gave the plants some water and the Sally and Maggie our activity team are going to look after them, for when the children come again next week.
When the plants get use to been in the greenhouse, the children and residents will plant them in our high beds, with some canes. The residents and children also planted some sunflower seeds and we are eagerly waiting to see them shoot up.
