Activities at South Grange Care Home

After more than 20 years of continuous service at South Grange much-loved Charge Nurse, Catherine Pasane has decided to retire.

Staff and residents at the home sent Catherine off in style with a tea party and a special cake specially made by our head chef Bernard. Everyone at the home has very fond memories of Catherine and she will be sadly missed.

Catherine said: “South Grange is like a family to me and though I’m looking forward to retirement, I’m really going to miss everyone here so much! My journey as a nurse has empowered me with broad experience of rendering holistic, high standard, person centred care to our residents valued by both residents and their families.”

Our home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and bunting in recognition of Mother’s Day and all the mothers in our home.

Housekeeping team helped our residents and families to celebrate Mother’s day, they arranged a cream tea afternoon which all families and friends who were visiting were very welcome to join.

Big thanks to our chef for the variety of yummy sweet and savoury treats  

Our residents received beautiful flower bouquets, gifts and cards from their families which made their day.  

There were smiles all around the home with everybody celebrating this wonderful day.

The activity staff accompanied three of our ladies to a local coffee shop in Monifieth, Bowman’s Coffee House. We had a selection of cakes which was washed down with a delicious cup of tea/coffee. We all agreed the staff were lovely but the cakes were even better.

We finished our afternoon off with a wander along the high street and went window shopping.

Resident Barbara said ‘this was a lovely afternoon and a nice early birthday treat for me. I haven’t been out window shopping for almost two years’.

At South Grange we’ve had an influx of new residents in the last month. So we held our afternoon gentlemen’s club which was a good chance for everyone to mingle and get to know other each other. This afternoon wasn’t only for the gents as we had our ladies along to join in the fun too. We had lots of activities on offer such as good old dominos, darts, connect 4 and target shooting practice. We found that the target practice was the favourite of staff and residents, creating different targets to shoot at.

They also enjoyed their refreshments of lager and a selection of crisps.

The residents always enjoy doing some exercise and moving about so once a week we do an exercise class with them. We started off with some gentle chair exercises starting from our head and finishing with our feet, whilst listening to some relaxing music. We then work on our hand to eye coordination with some ball throwing into the hoop. The residents enjoyed some light refreshments after all their hard work!

We marked National floral Design Day by going for a walk around the garden to pick a range of flowers from our lovely displays now that spring is approaching. We then pressed our floral designs to make a lovely floral collage for our café area. The ladies used a mixture of colourful flowers and greenery for their master pieces. It certainly brightens up the area very well and looks beautiful for everyone to see!