Activities at North Park Care Home

Residents and colleagues at North Park were delighted to receive lots of scrumptious quiches, pies, fresh cream cakes, cupcakes and fruity flans from Tasty Treats based in Darlington. Residents enjoyed sampling the delights at a their popular coffee morning and afternoon social gatherings whilst families, friends and staff were able to indulge themselves with mouth-watering  goodies while raising money to support Dementia UK.

Residents at North Park have been thoroughly enjoying getting out and about in the homes minibus, taking short trips and visiting favourite places which has been generating many conversations and the sharing of memories,  Residents have also enjoyed cups of tea and coffee with delicious home-made biscuits and fruit from the comfort of the minibus as they take in their beautiful surroundings.

North Park residents enjoy being as productive possible around their home. One of the favourite pastimes is re-doing the fresh flower table centres, and much thought and pride goes in to this weekly activity. On completion, all residents then enjoy the colours and fragrances of the posies during mealtimes.

At North Park movement and fitness are very important to our residents for both physical and mental wellbeing, and we are constantly utilising different media to make our exercises  fun and different. One favourite of our residents is using the parachute and this can also cause much laughter and jovial rivalry especially when attempting to keep balls rolling around or guiding to the hole in the centre.

For residents at North Park care home in Darlington, the long awaited reunion with one family member has become a reality, as one single named visitor is now allowed to visit each resident in their bedroom.

Despite the need for testing and social distancing, it was still welcome news for so many residents and their family members to be able to meet in the comfort of their bedroom. Residents and their loved ones enjoyed getting together and catching up face to face.

Lisa Frame General Manager at the home, said: “This is the first cautious step towards having a buzz of visitors in the home again. It was wonderful to see how happy it made the residents and their relatives. We have a great booking system in place to ensure the visits are well organised, and visitors are doing a great job of following the safety measures to keep everyone as safe as possible.  For those that are not able to come inside the home we are pleased to be able to continue to offer visits in our visiting suites or outdoors when the weather allows”

Residents at Barchester Healthcare’s North Park care home, in Darlington celebrated Mother’s Day with chocolate favours, scrumptious cupcakes and an afternoon party. The home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and bunting for the occasion.

Staff at North Park arranged flowers for every resident with a music and dance afternoon party where they performed a special dance routine and spent time reminiscing about the residents’ childhoods.  

General Manager, Lisa Frame said: “We’ve all had a really lovely day. Although Mother’s Day has had to be a bit different this year, our mums have had video calls with family and we have made good use of our visiting suite to make sure lots of our residents had a visit with their loved ones.”