Activities at Ochil Care Home

Residents and staff at Ochil enjoyed a Halloween party, celebrating with treats including cakes, chocolate and smoothies.  Everyone enjoyed listening to music which played in the background as they reminiscence about how they celebrated Halloween as children.  Everyone had a wonderful afternoon!

Residents are overjoyed at Ochil care home in Perth, as Barchester Healthcare has implemented a designated visiting room for residents to continue to spend time with their loved ones for the autumn and winter seasons in addition to the outdoor visiting that has been on offer for those able for many months.

Balancing resident wellbeing and safety is at the forefront of Barchester Healthcare’s thinking and they understand how important it is for residents and their family and friends to be able to spend time together in the safest way possible.

In and around our home we have our physio back in helping keep our residents fit and active, we are making the most of the garden space when we can, having fun with making up and trying out our new boxes of jigsaws, and holding virtual church services for our residents to attend.

The residents have still been getting some great visits with family and friends, unfortunately the visiting has been moved back to outside visits, however the cold weather hasn’t stopped all the happy faces, recently pets have been allowed to visit their loved ones again, we had our resident Toms dog Brodie in to see Tom. Tom and Brodie were so happy to be reunited, Brodie’s tail wouldn’t stop wagging and Tom was smiling the whole time, it was a great visit.

We were lucky enough to have been treated to a concert by one of our residents Colin, we had some singing from the 50s and 60s, all the residents that joined us had a great afternoon singing and dancing along and even the staff had a great time joining in. It was really great of Colin to get up and preform for his fellow residents and lift their spirits, it left everyone who attended in a great mood full of smiles and chat, we finished the afternoon with cake and cups of tea.

We have been lucky enough throughout the pandemic to receive such lovely things from the public, this time we have had some lovely handmade/ hand painted gifts dropped off to us from a lady, It consisted of jewellery trinkets, coasters, wall displays, pouches, purses and small bags. The residents loved all the handmade gifts, one of our residents commented they couldn’t wait to try out their new purse at the shops.

We were also lucky enough to be donated lots of brand new jigsaws puzzles, from 100 pieces to 1000 pieces, the residents have been having fun trying out some of the jigsaws and making up the pictures.