Activities at Park View Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
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!
Rose, Teresa & Sharon
We are the activities team here at Park View!
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 Park View Care Home
Bill goes to the theatre!
Bill went to London to see only fools and horses!
Bill had watched the programme since he was a kid and was so excited when they brought out tickets, he had to go, and he had to be front row!
He had the best time!
'Tis the Season
Barchester’s Park View Nursing Home, in Dagenham, got in the Christmas spirit by hosting a Brass Band concert in the Nursing Home for residents.
The Christmas celebrations were in full swing with the Brass Band, festive food, and special visitors including Barking & Dagenham Mayor and Provider and Quality Officer Brenda Ebenezer. Residents enjoyed a feast of festive foods prepared by the home’s chef, before they danced and sang along to the music. To bring the concert to an end, one of our residents completed a special performance singing his all-time favourite ‘My Way’ by Frank Sinatra.
Senior Manager, Renata Kindereviciene said: “Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year and our fantastic residents love to get festive so we’ve pulled out all the stops. It is so lovely to see them all getting into the Christmas spirit, it’s definitely my favourite time of year.”
Our varied life enrichment programme keeps residents active, and provides a daily choice of engaging physical, mental and spiritual activities tailored to residents’ interests and abilities.
Park View Nursing Home is run by Barchester Healthcare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, which is committed to delivering high-quality care across its care homes and hospitals. Park View Nursing Home provides nursing care, residential care, respite care.
James' Day Out!
After several discussions with James about his interests, he requested to go out on more trips one to one, so after some planning, we decided to make this a regular activity so that we can stimulate James' mind, body and soul with a variety of trips and activities. For the 5th January, we arranged his first trip, and we decided to take him to a beautiful natural history museum in the village of Tring that was once owned by a member of the Rothschild family. After a gentle drive, we arrived at the museum.
James could not believe his eyes at all the amazing animals from all around the world. He marvelled at all types of bears, monkeys, tigers, lions, birds and even elephants. James was so impressed he asked if I could get him some paper and a pencil so he could draw the polar bear on display. As we continued to walk around, we also got to see lots of sadly extinct animals, such as the dodo, the great Moa and many others which we helped James read and understand the descriptions of all the animals and the different countries that they were from.
James continued to be mesmerised throughout the immersive experience, enhancing his alertness, reducing his anxiousness and leaving James with an overall calmness about him. Sadly, once we had completed walking around the whole museum, we decided to stop for some refreshments in the onsite coffee shop, giving us the opportunity to reflect on our day out and what bits we liked the best. James mentioned that he loved the feel of fox's fur and was surprised how soft and thick it was.
After we had finished our refreshments, James requested to go into the gift shop. After a look around, James selected a Lego dinosaur for us to build together, some top trump cards of the animals we had seen, a t.rex replica egg and a display of the planets in our solar system. We then decided to take a slow drive back to Parkview as we remembered our fun day out.
The impact of this activity helped James to feel independent, empowered to make choices for himself and confidence in a personal-centred care environment overall, leaving James with a sense of purpose. James always gives us positive feedback and shows his excitement and gratitude, inspiring us to continue to go above and beyond so he feels loved, cared for and part of the Parkview family.
Christmas Lights Switch on
Parkview drove into London to see the Christmas lights turn on and all the beautiful decorations in London.
The residents love the drive around in the mini bus and we even stopped for fish and chips on the way home!
Park View at Butlins
Park view went to Butlins for the week for the second year in a row.
We had 10 staff and 10 residents that went on holiday for the week.
They all had a fantastic time and we visited Brighton for the day. We went bowling, went on train rides, visited the arcades and lots more.
Some of the residents' family came for the day to visit and spend a fun day out with their loved ones.
We can't wait to do this again next year!
Doris celebrates turning 100!
Our beautiful Doris celebrated her 100th birthday.
She had a big celebration party at Parkview were all her family and friends came to enjoy some food and drinks. Doris loved her caked and was spoilt with lots of gifts.
Doris also had a dance school that come and danced for her. Doris had a wonderful time and the best 100th birthday!
