Activities at Lucerne House Care Home

This month we have started a Knit & Natter group in our Memory Lane community at Lucerne House. Residents, relatives and staff all got together to have a laugh and a chat whilst knitting various items. Alex Petersen, Head of Activities was very pleased with the support from our relatives and has expressed a special thanks to Anne who taught him how to cast on and how to knit.

Linda, a relative at our home has been knitting wool cupcakes which everyone agreed were really good. Everyone who attended had a lovely time and we are looking to make this a regular event in the coming weeks and months. Look at our upcoming events section for more information on this and if you would like to join us then do pop in.

Everyone at Lucerne would like to congratulate Alex Petersen, Head of Activities, on winning the Regional Great British Care award in the Care Home Activity Organiser category in 2019.

Alex said it was a great surprise and honour to be recognised for his work within the activities role/sector and commended his team for without them he would not have been able to achieve this. Alex will now go on to the National Great British Care awards which will be held in March 2020. We all wish him the best of luck

We have many exciting things to look forward to at Lucerne House in 2020 with new activities and meaningful engagements on the horizon. On New Year’s day we had an excellent time playing with the giant scrabble board. Two teams made up of residents and relatives competed against each other.

There was plenty of healthy competition and lots of banter, which really lifted our spirits and enthused us for the year ahead. Ernie, one of our residents, remarked on what a great game it was and how much everyone has seemed to enjoy it. Look out for more activities and events in our upcoming events section of our website and as always if you fancy joining us then do pop in.

We have had a wonderful time over our festive period at Lucerne House with many different activities and events taking place. Some of our highlights have been the “La La” choir who have joined us for the 7th year running, Dally about the Bush performed “Puss in Boots”, we celebrated “Elf Day” and “Christmas jumper day”, entered a cake into Barchester’s cake competition and were joined by the Exeter Filipino Choir who delighted us with wonderful singing.

Ron Jampil who was part of the Exeter Filipino choir and head of our Ide Nursing Unit celebrated his birthday with us and we all sang happy birthday to him. It has been a wonderful time with lots of shared joy and we hope to enjoy many more events and meaningful engagements in the new year.

We have all had a great time on Elf Day! Staff, residents and relatives all donned their best elf outfits and spent the day enjoying the festivities. We had a tea party in the afternoon, which also involved a present wrapping competition. Everyone remarked on how fun the day had been and how good it was to support Elf Day, which helps to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society.

Our recently introduced Gentlemen’s club is proving a great place for our male residents to get together to socialise, reminisce and have the odd tipple. Recently the group have been joined by one of our relatives at the home who has a wealth of experience in wood carving.

The group have been practicing with plasticine and also had some demonstrations of other techniques and designs. Our Gentlemen’s club runs each week on a Thursday afternoon so if you would like to join us then do pop in.