Activities at Meadow Park Care Home

Today saw the delivery of our very own brand spanking new Digital Rainbow Table for everybody to enjoy.

This state of the art giant tablet has lots of amazing features for us all to try, with benefits for life enrichment, including cognitive challenge apps with brain training quizzes or general trivia, making music apps, where residents can play musical instruments or watch videos on YouTube, arts and crafts apps, we can paint by numbers and do memory shape sorting games, story time apps with lots of audio books installed to enjoy, and video calling imagine video calling your loved one and them being life size right in front of you! This is only a few of the fantastic things it has to offer.

Residents had the pleasure of welcoming Michaela from Musical Memories into their home today, to entertain them all with songs of the past.

Everyone was singing along and dancing in their seats, with family joining us also. We can’t wait for their next visit!

Birthday celebrations are a firm feature within the homes life enrichment programme and this month was no exception as we celebrated, Winnie's birthday.

Winnie enjoyed her birthday, spending time with her friends and family, and enjoyed her home made cake at tea time and a rousing rendition of 'Happy birthday'.

Our Head Housekeeper has received a prestigious 20 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 20 years.

Susan Milner, now Head Housekeeper started at Barchester in August 2004 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years. Meadow Park are delighted Susan has been recognised for her loyalty and commitment and the team for her passion and dedication.

Staff and residents are celebrating because their wonderful Managing Director, Fiona Fagan, from Barchester’s North East and Scotland Division, has stepped completely out of her comfort zone to compete in the Barchester Charitable Foundation Cook Off 2024.

Fiona went head-to-head with the Managing Directors from Barchester’s four other divisions and cooked up a storm to raise a phenomenal £24,595 for Barchester’s Charitable Foundation which helps connect vulnerable people and those living with a disability to community groups in their local area by providing grants to improve mobility and quality of life.  Each year the Foundation distributes thousands of pounds to individuals, small community groups and charities across England, Scotland and Wales.  

We have celebrated World Chocolate Day today at Meadow Park, with Mars Bars, Twirls and Galaxy a plenty, residents from all three communities came together and tucked in to tasty treats whilst jogging their memory’s with a chocolate picture quiz, where everyone was a winner… then a Big Chocolate general knowledge Quiz, where Freda was our chocoholic scoring the most correct answers.

Mandy served up some delicious Mini Black Forest Gateaux, Chocolate Rice Krispies, and Chocolate Berry Flan for everyone to enjoy, with Hot Chocolates to wash them down

World Chocolate Day has to be one of the best days to celebrate