Activities at Rivermead Care Home

Here at Rivermead we are helping to tackle any feelings of isolation for our residents during this difficult period.

Residents are encouraged to use the iPad & tablet to reach out to their friends, families, loved ones and community groups.

This morning one of our ladies joined the Dementia Forward Singing Group and sang along with them virtually via Skype.

It is important to enable our resident's to keep connected with the relationships and communities they were apart of before lockdown.

Today at Rivermead we jumped into wonderland. Our Alice in wonderland themed day has been organised by Colette Craven, Vixx Taylor & Layla Rainbow. Staff and residents stepped into character with their fancy dress and residents spent the morning making hats all ready for our mad hatter's tea party.

The amazing tea party foods and fancies were made possible by chefs Sarah Lightfoot, Graeme Bennison and their team of kitchen assistants. With the variety of foods on offer there was definitely something to please everyone's taste buds including the impressively, scrumptious profiterole tower.

Residents cheered and clapped as Lena Walker, our resident ambassador addressed the staff "I think I speak for everyone when I say what a fabulous party this has been, probably one of the best since I have been a resident here. The food was lovely and a credit to the kitchen team. Thank you very much for organising this."

Pancake Day! Today we enjoyed lovely home cooked pancakes. Chef, Sarah Lightfoot is a pro at pancake flipping. We had savoury pancakes and of course sweet pancakes with sugar, syrup and all things nice.  Hope you enjoyed yours whatever your preference?

We celebrated Valentine's Day and love was definitely in the air here at Rivermead.  We asked some of our residents to give us their best love and relationship advice – it certainly makes you think! With some of their replies.  Happy Valentines from everyone at Rivermead.

Rivermead care home was transformed with a 50s themed day to mark Buddy Holly Day on 3rd February.

General Manager, Sarah Jackson said: “Lots of our residents are big Buddy Holly fans and still love his music.  We’ve had a fantastic day listening to all his hits, finding out about his life in 50s America and what influenced him. We watched a documentary about his life, he was such an incredible talent. It is amazing how many songs he recorded.  We all surprised ourselves by how many we remembered!”

Congratulations to our Care Practitioner, Pam Rex who is celebrating her 15 years of service at Rivermead Care Home.

Pam started working at Rivermead in February 2006.   Pam has been presented with flowers & received her gold pin from General Manager, Sarah Jackson.

Thank you Pam for your continued commitment to our residents, colleagues and Barchester Healthcare