Activities at Rose Lodge Care Home

Senses can provide strong links to the past, as evidenced through reminiscence activities in aged care. For example, a person's sense of smell can provide powerful links to memory and emotion, and our care teams can support these connections through activities such as aromatherapy.  

In our memory lane community, residents really enjoy looking through the sensory trolley with lots of smells and having a good old sort to see what they can find. It’s good for communication, starting conversations and bringing back memories and chatting about them.

Helping residents to keep in touch with loved ones is incredibly important to us here at Rose Lodge Care Home.

Prior to Ann living at Rose Lodge she used to Skype with her sister Susan in America every week. Now that Ann is at Rose Lodge  she  has reconnected the sisters with their weekly Skype video chats. This has ensured they keep their close connection going, just with a change of venue.

Ann and her brother thoroughly look forward to this weekly video call with their sister. They thoroughly enjoy reminiscing about their childhood days and what they've been up too.

If you'd like to set up Skype calls with any of your loved ones at Rose Lodge, please don't hesitate to contact activities.

All over the country our care homes and hospitals linked up for Barchester’s Big Quiz of the year!

Residents tested their knowledge with a variety of questions, from historical humdingers and musical musings to pictorial puzzlers and connective conundrums.

Everyone who participated had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

We had a magical evening at the annual Christmas Fayre! The fabulous residents had a brilliant time immersing themselves in the festivities, enjoying the live music entertainment from Maria, and indulging in the most delicious treats from our amazing stall holders.

The atmosphere was electric, filled with laughter, joy, and the spirit of the holiday season. Our residents john Vera Jackie pat Elizabeth all said they had a lovely time and it was lovely to meet our mayor and Mayoress

A huge thank you goes out to our dedicated team for organising and supporting this fantastic event,  We are immensely grateful to Mayor and Mayoress of Wisbech for their continuous support and fabulous company at the event. As well as everyone who supported and donated to our annual Christmas Raffle. Of course we'd like to say a huge thank you to the fantastic stall holders for joining us and making the event even more spectacular.

Residents and staff  had an amazing morning when the local nursery children visited us to perform their Christmas carols to us all. We all thought they did a spectacular job and we greatly appreciated their visit. We always love when the little ones come to visit us, as it's unique and meaningful each time. Everyone enjoyed some scrumptious biscuits and drinks during the sing along and thought it was just a perfect festive morning. Residents said they can remember going to their children’s school and listening to the carols they said it brought back lovely memories.

Across our homes we got into the Christmas spirit of things by joining a festive live virtual experience, led by Des and Kelly from Performing Pets.

Our residents were thrilled to meet the charming furry friends and get up close and personal with the reindeers.  We certainly learnt some interesting facts about the animals and had a fantastic time.