Activities at Rothsay Grange Care Home

The morning was spent icing cakes with ties and bow ties as well as domino tiles, these went down a treat with everyone. We enjoyed an afternoon with The Classic Belles, they are new to our home and the residents loved them. Angie sang along to all the songs and danced in her chair with Ann by her side singing along too. It is amazing how music opens up a new world to people living with dementia they come alive, know the songs word from word, their faces are bright and so relaxed and happy this makes me know why I love my job so much. We had a lovely light afternoon tea, made by our onsite chefs Debbie and Simon they always gives us a very good spread today we had cake and biscuits and open sandwiches loved by all the tea flowed and we also had a beer for those that wanted one.

On 7th May residents from Rothsay Grange care home  in Andover celebrated National doughnut day. They played doughnut hoopla, tasted different doughnuts even coloured in pictures of them. One resident said that ‘’she did not know we had so many different doughnuts we always had just jam ones’’. The residents had a blind tasting to see if they could tell what doughnut it was, the activities team tried too and it was very hard to tell. We also went out on a trip to see if we could find anymore doughnuts in the coffee shop.

We marked the anniversary of Victory in Europe Day in style by throwing a 1940s afternoon tea party to remember. The home was decorated in red, white and blue. Everyone enjoyed an afternoon of live music from Jayne Deer. We all enjoyed freshly-baked biscuits and a cake for the occasion, all washed down with pots of tea.

We honored our local firefighters by inviting them in to enjoy delicious home-baked goodies and to thanks the firefighters stationed there for their selfless service keeping the community safe. The residents really enjoyed speaking to the firefighters, learning fun facts and looking inside the fire truck.

We had a lovely time celebrating this special day with cream teas, prosecco and a homemade heart shaped cake. We had Tony Allgood filling the room with love by singing different love songs. All the residents were hand delivered red roses while Tong sang ‘Your Song by Elton John’.  Love was shared in the community with a cream tea delivered to Salon 73, Foxcotte Veterinary and Chantry lodge retirement home too. 

Here at Rothsay Grange our team have recently joined a meeting with Sporting Memories Foundation to under more about how the scheme can benefit our residents.

Sporting Memories Foundation for 10 years have been using the power of remembering and talking about sport – along with physical exercise – to tackle dementia, depression and loneliness. They are dedicated to bringing together older adults.

Sporting Memories offer group or 1-2-1 based activities for our residents to enjoy either with other residents or by involving family and friends.

There are over 120 Sporting Memories Clubs across Scotland, Wales and England. The supportive, welcoming and structured sessions they offer are proven to help build cognitive resilience for those living with dementia. Mental and physical well-being increases too.

We look forward to working in partnership with Sporting Memories Foundation.