Activities at Mount Vale Care Home

We had a fantastic Mother’s Day here at Mount Vale! All of our lovely Ladies received a little sweet bag made up by staff that were presented to them all over lunch. We spent the afternoon enjoying an afternoon tipple and even more goodies such as flower cupcake

Love was in the air for Residents when our local Sainsbury’s dropped off Red Roses for each of our ladies here at Mount Vale. As you can see they are absolutely beautiful. The ladies got together and arranged all of the flowers into individual little vases and  took them around to all of the ladies in the Home. Our residents were delighted, the whole home was a sea of red and perfumed!

Mount Vale Care Home in Northallerton has recently brought a bit of magic to residents by providing a new ‘Magic Table 360 and the Happiness Programme’ as a way to improve residents’ quality of life.

Designed and manufactured in the UK, the Magic Table 360 uses interactive games to connect residents with staff and with each other, and research shows it improves the wellbeing of people living with dementia. Using interactive light projections, the Magic Table 360, which can be played independently or in a group, stimulates movement by inviting participants to take part in all sorts of different fun activities such as popping bubbles, playing the piano, colouring in pictures, sweeping leaves or interacting playfully with fish. Games are rich in colour, movement and detail, and allow people of all ages to play in a safe and comfortable environment.

The Magic Table 360 is portable so it can be used wherever residents feel most comfortable, it can be projected onto the floor, ceiling, walls, a whiteboard or even the bed. The Happiness Programme allows for a range of games that change seasonally and have country-specific versions covering 14 different categories, so there will always be something new for residents to try.

Yesterday our favourite little visitors from Rosedene Nursery come by and paid us a visit. They had spent the morning decorating jars and making them into vases. They filled them with daffodils and came round to drop them off for our residents.

This was a lovely surprise, our residents loved them. Alison and other residents commented on how much they missed their visits, as they enjoyed the reading corner we did weekly with them. We look forward to when we can get back to normal.

Keeping active, having social interactions and being mentally stimulated is very important to Residents at Mount Vale.   Today was a fun-filled game of pom-poms!

Every got really competitive, everyone wanted to beat each other and Residents really got into the event.

The home said “keeping active is good for Residents wellbeing as it helps with their hand eye coordination and is a good arm exercise to keep them muscles working.”

A few of our ladies enjoyed a little time and fresh air in the homes beautiful gardens, looking at snowdrops and all of the daffodils coming through providing a sure sign that Spring is on its way following the recent cold spell and snow.