Activities at Oaklands Care Home

Our home is always full of life, and we can thank our wonderful Activities Coordinators for this. Dedication to creating a unique and interesting activities programme is what sets us apart from other homes. We always take into consideration that some people would prefer to pursue their own interests, which is why our team strive to incorporative activities that cater to a wide range of tastes and hobbies. Our trips out are always fun and exciting as well, and residents are guaranteed to return with stories to tell their loved ones!

Enriching life
Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Anna Bate & Jo Lawn

Activities Team

Anna is our Activity Lead. She started working at Barchester over 14 years ago at our sister home Hilton Park. Having built strong relationships with staff, residents and families, Anna brings lots of fun to our home.  Anna loves to sing, dance and laugh and generally brings oodles of joy to ours days.

Working alongside Anna is Jo who started her career here at Oaklands as a carer on Elms community in 2014 developing a passion for dementia care and completing her social care N+VQ Levels 2 and 3.  Jo Joined the activity team 3 years ago and has since become the homes dementia champion, championing for a better lifestyle for our resident through staff training and regular audits.

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 Oaklands Care Home

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Fun at Oaklands!

Here are some photos from our adventures here in Oaklands where we've been focusing on what our residents need and enjoy. 

Some needed a coffee and a chat in reception, others needed a walk and fresh air, while lots wanted to read or listen to a story. Here at Oaklands we pride ourselves on focusing on the individual and what they enjoy and engage with the best.

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Intergenerational Joy

We love our half-term visits from our Oaklands staff children, who bring so much fun, happiness and laughter into the home, not to mention energy. Here you can see residents enjoying a painting activity together so simple yet so much fun for all involved.

Kate used to work in a school, so this brings back fond memories for her, and she said “today was a good day with lots of fun”.

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Love is in the air!

We celebrated valentines in style at Oakland’s with a trolley of love, visiting every resident throughout the day giving individual cards, gifts and chocolates. 

Kate, one of our residents, loves to help and enjoyed helping us push the trolley around and give out gifts and, alongside that, she was reading the cards to residents who are no longer able to read for themselves.

We were then fortunate to have Marcus come and sing and entertain us for the afternoon with his Michael Bublé tribute act. We had singing, clapping, dancing and even some ladies enjoying a cuddle and a kiss with him. We really felt the love in the room!

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Just two men sitting in the sunshine at the riverside

We had a marvellous trip out to the Ely riverbank to catch up with the local fishermen, as both Keith and Ray have been keen fishermen all their lives.

We all enjoyed the surroundings we were in, the sun was shining and reflecting off the water, and it was just gorgeous. 

We enjoyed the walk up and down the river chatting to the locals and seeing what they had caught. Sadly, only one of the fishermen Dave had caught, which we found funny, as it annoyed the others and some were packing up to go and find a better spot. 

We took some time to look around and could see the Cathedral in the distance. We had a great morning and look forward to going again.

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Reflections

We took some time and will continue to take time over the next few days to sit and reflect with our residents and, instead of making new year's resolutions, we make new year wishes.

This gives our residents a chance to express their wishes, however big or small. 

As you can see from the photos, some of these are gorgeous wishes, and we look forward to granting them over the next few months.

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New Year at Oaklands

We had a fabulous celebration of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day with sparklers in the gardens for those that wished, and then we had glow in the dark balloons which were great fun for all as we played games and created laughter.

Residents enjoyed a glass of fizz to toast the New Year and music from Kirsty helped us to celebrate on New Year’s Day.

Moorea said her fizz was “delicious” and Judy danced the day away.