What types of care does South Grange Care Home offer?

South Grange Care Home offers Nursing care, Residential care, Services for under 65.

Activities at South Grange Care Home

Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Gillian Conway

Senior Activities Coordinator

Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.

Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.

Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 South Grange Care Home

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National Fish & Chip day

Staff and residents at Barchester’s South Grange care home in Monifieth had a fantastic time celebrating National Fish & Chip Day on Friday 4th June, surely one of the best days of the year!

Bell Rock Chippy in Arbroath delivered Fish and chip for residents to try along with some home-made tartare sauce and mushy peas, everyone had a great time guessing the different batter ingredients. The sun was shining so residents took to the garden to eat their fish and chips in paper with wooden forks in time-honoured tradition. Later on they enjoyed a quiz where they were tested on fun fish & chip facts.

Operational Manager, Fiona Torrie, said: “It wasn’t just the residents that were excited when we found out there was a National Fish & Chip Day, the eyes of all our staff lit up too – fish & chips are such an iconic dish, everyone loves them and it’s even better when there is a good excuse to eat them!”

Fozia italia at South Grange

Residents at South Grange in Monifieth have been discovering all things Italiano in celebration of Festa della Republblica or Italian National Day, which took place on Wednesday 2nd June.

The date marks the official formation of the Republic of Italy after World War II.

Residents took part in Italian-themed activities throughout the day including an Italian quiz, virtual trips to Rome, Florence, Venice and the Amalfi Coast to Sicily which everyone really enjoyed. The favourite activity of the day however was food tasting and a 3 course Italian meal made by head chef, Alan Hooks.

Fiona Torrie, Operational Manager at South Grange said: “We’ve all had a brilliant day learning and reminiscing about all the wonderful things to see and do in Italy. Many of our residents have travelled to Italy so it was lovely for them to be able to share their memories. We have all enjoyed some fantastic food today, Italian Day might become a regular thing menu-wise from now on!”

Virtual trip to a Safari Park

Here at South Grange in Monifieth we were pleased to be able to dive into the wild safari life of Knowsley Safari and to enjoy an amazing live stream tour of the park’s grounds.

Our residents were smiling and laughing as they got up close and personal with some of the safari’s most popular animals, including giraffes and meerkats and many more!

We had a wonderful time learning more about the animals and enjoying some live feeding demonstrations.

Home take the biscuit

Whether you’re a die-hard Digestive fan, a Ginger Nut, or go crazy for a Custard Cream, National Biscuit Day, celebrated on May 28th, is the perfect day for you. And it was certainly a day of fun-filled biscuit dunking for the staff and residents at South Grange care home in Monifieth.

To mark the celebration of the nation’s favourite biscuits, residents tucked into a variety of different options, which of course, were paired with a good old cup of tea. There was much fun to be had taking part in biscuit themed quizzes, chats about all things biscuits finding out about the history of the biscuit dunking and biscuit tasting.

Fiona Torrie, Operational Manager at South Grange said: “All our residents love tucking into the freshly baked biscuits our chef makes every day but National Biscuit Day gave us the perfect excuse to nibble even more than normal! We all had great fun tasting all the different types of biscuits and deciding which our favourites were!”

Activities coordinator celebrates 25-years

A senior activity co-ordinator at South Grange in Monifieth has received a prestigious twenty five year service award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for twenty five years.

Gill Conway, now senior activity co-ordinator, started at Barchester in May 1996 and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years.

Floristry demo with Blooming Haus

Staff and residents at Barchester’s South Grange care home in Monifieth were treated to an interactive virtual floristry masterclass courtesy of Master Florist, Michal Kowalski, from Blooming Haus.

Blooming Haus started with a small pop-up shop in Chelsea. They have since blossomed spectacularly on to the floristry scene as ‘floral engineers’, carving themselves an outstanding reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative floral design studios. The company is the vision of Master Florist, Michal Kowalski and his business partner, Michael Dariane. The pair bring a completely fresh approach to floristry and their ambition to push the boundaries of traditional floristry has laid the foundations of Blooming Haus’ success to date.