Activities at Ochil Care Home

A Home Administrator at Ochil Care Home in Perth has received a prestigious 20 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 20 years.  Anne Manson, Home Administrator, started at Barchester in August 2000 as Home Administrator at Seaview Care Home in Wick, then moved to Ochil Care Home in 2006   and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.

Liz Stewart, General Manager of Ochil Care Home said: “We’re delighted to be celebrating 20 years of loyal service with Anne. She has demonstrated her dedication and loyalty to this home and its residents year after year. I speak for all of us here at Ochil when I say that I’m looking forward to many more years of working with Anne!”

Whenever the weather is good Residents are making the most of the homes beautiful garden space and those green-fingered residents have been helping with a spot of gardening, planting and potting around the home. Even on the rainy days they have managed to bring the gardening indoors keeping the residents occupied with hobbies and interests which they enjoy being involved in.

Everything was red, white and blue as Ochil celebrated the Queen’s birthday.  The home was decorated  with banners, flags and everyone celebrated with delicious home-made cakes and cup of tea. As part of the celebrations the home entered Barchester HealthCare's ‘Bake a cake fit for the Queen’ competition. Residents came together and spoke about what the Queen meant to them and all had a great day.

Residents of Ochil joined in with the nations celebration of National Cream Tea Day on 26th June.  It was a question on everyone's lips, was it the jam or cream first!   Everyone had a yummy afternoon tea full of mouth watering treats - homemade scones, pancakes served with clotted cream, strawberries and jam accompanied by a cup of tea or coffee . It was lovely for the residents to get together and have a good chat keeping social distance in mind.

Residents and colleagues at Ochil have been receiving lovely postcards of kindness from the community with nice stories of what they have been doing, what their hobbies and interests are and also drawings and photos of pets they have and asking residents how they are and what they enjoy doing. 

Postcards for Kindness is incredibly beneficial for the residents as it provides a boost in wellbeing and helps to create connections with people from all over the world.

Easter treats brought smiles to our residents as the home held an Easter raffle with a selection of prizes to be won.     Everyone had a wonderful day enjoying coffee, home-made cake and a good old chatter before the winning tickets were drawn.  It was a fun-filled afternoon with musical entertainment, games and delicious Easter cakes.

The theme continued with a baking session, for those budding bakers in the home in making cupcakes and decorating with butter icing, sprinkles and some mini eggs. Everybody enjoyed making a mess and eating the cakes.