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.
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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 Lucerne House Care Home
World Health Week
We have had a great time marking World Health Week at Lucerne House. Residents and staff have all been engaging in activities that promote healthy lifestyles.
We started the week with a reminiscence and healthy snacks morning, where the conversation soon turned towards the foods that were available when our residents were growing up.
Later in the week, many of our residents joined a 'Movement for Health' cycling group, which saw our oldest resident, at 101 years old, out-cycle everyone else; and finally, at the end of the week, we finished with a healthy treats trolley, which travelled around the home.
Everyone at Lucerne has really enjoyed engaging in these events.
Virtual Yoga
We were delighted to welcome back Rachel Sherring, our yoga instructor via a virtual session. Rachel donned her best purple wig and delivered an excellent session.
Staff and residents were stretching, flexing and having a good laugh, as well as taking part in a music trivia quiz with the help of an Amazon Alexa.
Reuniting Loved Ones
We have been delighted to support our residents reunite with loved ones in our garden space over the last few months.
The global pandemic has had such an impact on all of our lives, but these visits have been a real boost to morale and brought such joy to residents, relatives and staff.
One of our residents has really been missing family, who sadly aren’t able to make regular visits. Seeing this, Jan Taylor, one of our Activities Coordinators, and her niece, Jasmine, who took part in a work placement at Lucerne House a few years ago, came and made a special visit to the resident, who was overjoyed.
Jasmine had been helping with the activities in our home and had spent lots of time supporting with one-to-one activities. During the visit, they were able to reminisce about times gone by and had lots of tears of joy and laughter. We hope to continue our garden visits in the coming weeks and months.
Ladies Club
We are delighted to announce a new group at Lucerne House. Lucerne Ladies Club is an activity where our female residents can come and take part in different events that they have fed back to us that they would enjoy.
Each week looks to take on a new theme, with high tea, mocktail creating, crafts, knit and natter and many more all planned for the coming weeks.
The Ladies club will run each wee, as will the Gentlemen’s Club, which has already proved to be a big success. We look forward to sharing some of our events with you in the coming weeks and months.
Brightening Up Our Day
A recent activity that has a great means of sensory stimulation, social inclusion and raising the well-being and spirits of the home was flower arranging in our Memory Lane community.
The vases have been dotted in areas around the dining and living area to be enjoyed by all those within the community. Gemma Benson, Administration Assistant, has even placed one on her desk. We look forward to enjoying more events like these in the coming weeks.
Sensory Arts & Crafts
We have really enjoyed our sensory arts & crafts session on our Memory Lane community at Lucerne House. Residents were using the aqua painting kits to enable some wonderful experiences with colour and creativity, as well as creating their own artistic pieces.
With the aqua kits, you apply water to the page and the colour begins to appear. It not only stimulates the senses visually, but is a great means of problem solving, as you begin to see the picture take shape you can test yourself on what it is before it is completed. It was also a brilliant way to stimulate conversation, as one of our residents began to reminisce about her time on a farm, as she completed a picture of a horse.
We look forward to more sensory arts and crafts in the coming weeks.
