Activities at Strachan House Care Home

Community is central to all we do here at Strachan House. It ensures our residents build connections and are able to be given to the opportunity to maintain those connections in the community that they live. One of our engagement successes is Cargilfield Nursery who are regular visitors to our home. Seeing residents and the children working together as well as developing friendships is a wonderful thing.

Our Gone Fishing 23 struck again today. With a combination of what was important to Audrey and of course her love of  curries the team jumped into action and recreated a special moment for her with their Gone Fishing 23 project. Audrey can always be heard reminiscing about her nights out with the girls and held fond memories of her times when her friends and her would get together. The surprise on both their faces when Audrey realised she was in for the night of her life.

The team did some community engagement with a local business in Blackhall called The Cove. With a little help ,local Indian restranteer Jahedd upon hearing her story was quick to jump on board and support the team in making Audrey enjoy a stroll back down memory lane. Audrey had a fantastic time and said it was a night to remember . “just like the good old days”. A big thankyou to all the support we get from our community to make magic moments like this happen.

Residents enjoyed a wonderful afternoon celebrating National Tea Day with family and friends over a Tea Dance hosted by the home. It’s always lovely to see the residents enjoying life with their families and events such as these ensures that life in the home is fulling and enriched. We always have such amazing support from our families and local community and today was no different.

Strachan House stopped at nothing for the Grand National . Our residents enjoyed a full on fitness session to help train our Strachan House Sprinters. What fun they had putting the horses through their paces with getting them ready for the big race on Saturday. Our residents had so much fun and the laughter was nonstop, especially when Mr T Rex a home favourite also turned up . Somehow we don’t think racing was on his mind, more how tasty one of the horses would be. However, no dinosaurs or horses were harmed in the event and everyone had a brilliant as we all put each other through our paces.

What better way to take a walk down memory lane than with a session of scrapbooking. Residents at Strachan House enjoyed designing and filling their books with memories that are important to them. Through sessions such as these we can use Reminsence as a tool to gain valuable information about our residents lives, their achievements, desires and what’s important to them. From there we can ensure every resident gets the person centred care that they deserve.

Our Gone Fishing 23 project struck again this week. Our wonderful resident Bill wished he could have his own garden again, so we teamed up with Struan Dow who needed to create a project. Heads were put together and Struan earned his JASS award by building Bill a beautiful herb garden naming it “ Bills Patch”. Bill was then surprised by Struan when he presented his workmanship to him as a gift. Well done Struan and Bill who are now firm friends within the local community. They are looking forward to several planting sessions together.