Activities at Lucerne House Care Home
At Lucerne House our person-centred activity programme has been tailored to suit the residents living in our home. It is constantly developing due to the direct feedback from our residents and enables them to take part in existing hobbies and new tasks that aim to stimulate creativity, intellect, physical ability and improve well being. With music groups, pub outings, cooking, gardening, one to one time, entertainers, quiz's, bingo and more, there is never a shortage of things to do.
We also have external providers who visit the home. We have Rachel Sherring who provides Yoga Sessions, Lorrain Christopher who is available every Wednesday and Thursday for hair appointments in our on site salon, Sharon Rees who visits on a Wednesday to provide massage therapy sessions in the comfort of your chair and regular Church Services which do include a monthly Holy Communion. We are always open to new suggestions, so if you do have any, our activities team will always be happy to listen.
Alex Petersen
I have been at Lucerne House since November 2011. I started in the kitchen before moving to the Activities Team. I have a background in music and theatre and was very happy to be able to share this with residents in the home. After a short while, I was promoted to Head of Activities, and earned my NAPA level 2 qualification in Activity Provision.
In the role of Head of Activities, I am focused on ensuring that residents can continue to enjoy existing hobbies and interests, but also pursue new avenues of stimulation and activity. I am always looking to bring new experiences and means of engagement to the home, be that through massage therapy, yoga, engaging with the local community or many other things. At Lucerne House, our person-centred approach allows us to make every resident feel valued and comfortable enough to express themselves however they see fit.
My goal is to ensure that every person living at Lucerne House feels confident enough to make independent decisions and that each of them have a robust choice of activities and interests to engage with. I am always open to suggestions, so if you do have any, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
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 Lucerne House Care Home
Autumnal outing
It may have been wet and windy in Exeter recently, but that didn’t stop us from a bit of retail therapy.
We took a trip to The Range, searching for a little inspiration for our Christmas Market, gathering some items for our Halloween Spook-tacular and then having a bit of fun, interacting with the seasonal and festive displays. We have lots of great events coming up over the Autumn months, leading into winter. Our residents have been helping to pick various items for our displays, life enrichment events and to use at our market.
It was also a great opportunity to have a good catch up, over a hot drink and cakes at the cafe.
Our residents have got lots to look forward to in the coming weeks and months, including our
Halloween Virtual Fancy dress and costume competition.
Each year we have picked 5 lucky winners who have each received a goody bag, full of treats. You can find out more about our virtual event by clicking the link above.
Roald Dahl Day
All week we have been preparing for the event, baking cakes, decorating our rooms and crafting items to be displayed.
We have had a fantastic day, filled with celebrations for the famous author.
We started our morning at Willy Wonka's Sweet Treat social, where we enjoyed a host of sweets and chocolates, took part in a little quiz and all tried our hand at our own game "who can eat a sour sweet, without pulling a face". There were some interesting reactions to our sour sweets but we did discover that many of our residents do, in fact, enjoy sour sweets and proceeded to devour them. The event was hosted by Willy Wonka and one of his Oompah Loompah's and was great fun.
Then, in the afternoon,
We transformed our Memory Lane community into a Cinema, for our Roald Dahl cinema experience.
Our residents have been snacking on sweets, chocolate, popcorn and candy floss, all while enjoying a special screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
It's was a great experience and has been a fantastic day, filled with laughter, fun and lots and lots of sweets.
Out in the community
It was lovely to return to St Michael's Alphington church this morning for their knitting and craft group.
Our residents have been snacking on treats and enjoying a hot drink and have even started on some of our projects for our Christmas market, happening in December.
There was even time to have a tour of the church which was a real treat.
We have also built some anticipation for our cakes, being made for Chatterbox cafe at Alphington Village Hall & Community Centre which takes place every Friday morning.
We will be decorating our cakes at our community coffee morning, which takes place every Thursday morning, from 10:45am. Everyone is welcome.
You can pop in on the day, or, email lucernehouse.activities@barchester.com to register your interest and book a place. We look forward to welcoming you.
Back to School Wisdom from our Residents
As the school year starts soon, our residents have been busy preparing some special messages for our local schoolchildren.
They’ve shared their funniest, most inspirational and motivating words of wisdom to help the children kick off the term with a smile.
Check out the photos we’ve taken of their advice!
A big thank you to everyone involved and a special shout out to our team for pulling it all together.
Boogie at the Beach Music Festival
🌞Boogie at the Beach🌞
What a fantastic afternoon we have had at our second music festival of the year "Boogie at the Beach"
Our Memory Lane community was buzzing with energy, excitement, fun and singing as we whiled the afternoon with our favourite festival songs.
Our room was transformed into a beach festival theme, complete with banners, balloons, props and plenty of novelty items to have fun with. Residents and visitors donned their best beach, Hawaiian and festival gear and we also enjoyed refreshments and ice cream.
Thank you to our wonderful team for putting on an amazing show today, helping our residents to have a fun filled time and bringing us all together as a thriving community. We truly are blessed to have you all. It was also amazing to have Colin and Ian from Sounds Easy pop in to sing our finale song with us. We look forward to seeing them again on the last Friday of August.
In addition, thank you to all of our wonderful residents and their family members who have joined them today for making the event all it could be.
Look out for our next music festival event, later in the year.
Ten Years’ service at Barchester
Congratulations to Lalaine Limos on her 10 years of service at Barchester Healthcare.
Lalaine was presented with flowers, pin badge and her award by General Manager, Sally Coletti. Sally said "We are all so proud of Lalaine. She has been the driving force and a big contributor to the success of our Memory Lane community and to our wonderful home. We are all so proud of you and all congratulate you on this milestone achievement"
