Activities at The Cedars Bourne Care Home

Residents at The Cedars recently enjoyed wine and chocolate tasting, seeing which wine goes best with which chocolate. They are happy to be involved in a sensory activities; one lady asked if we could make this a regular activity every fortnight. Residents enjoy making friendly connections with other residents over a glass of wine to share stories and to reminisce.

Residents at the Cedars care home, in Bourne recently enjoyed a very own street party set up in the home down Rowan and Maple’s corridor with banners, posters, streamers and balloons filling the corridor with red, white and blue. Our kitchen chef made sandwiches, Victoria sponge cake, coconut tarts, sausage rolls and Bakewell tart for a tasty treat that our residents can enjoy.

Residents at the home are happy to be able to celebrate VE Day and loved hearing wartime songs playing down the corridor, it meant such a lot as visitors are currently not able to visit the home at this time.

Becky, General Manager at the Cedars Care Home said: “In these unprecedented times, ensuring residents feel engaged and connected within our local community is more important than ever. Our residents spirits have raised being able to celebrate and have our own street party in the home. We provide a wide range of physical, mental and spiritual activities at the Cedars as part of the life enrichment programme for residents, and this one was very popular! We have also adapted ways to keep residents active, whilst ensuring that the group activities are smaller, adhering to social distancing advice.”

Residents at the Cedars care home, in Bourne recently enjoyed getting active taking part in penalty shootout football game to get their legs moving and to stay as active as we can during this unfortunate time.

Our residents enjoy being active to take their minds off what is happening in the world, it can be very upsetting and we want to keep them occupied and focused on more fun activities and getting as many involved as we can.

Being active has kept us laughing and smiling bringing happy moral into the home.

Dorothy is one of our residents in the Cedars in Bourne, who really enjoys keeping her brain active, she has been doing embroidery designs.

When doing the designs she will use her own imagination to choose the colours and use her own flare of stitching patterns to create it making the design a one of a kind. This is her latest work in progress so far.

Our residents have been enjoying all the lovely messages and drawings, received from the local children. All the pictures have been displayed around the home for all to enjoy and to brighten up their days.

Our residents have been working hard decorating Easter bonnets and now Good Friday is here we will see who won the bonnet competition.

Two of our nurses judged the bonnets whilst the residents wore them and come to the decision Jean won looking so bonnie in her bonnet.

On Easter Sunday all of our resident received an Easter egg. Then for Easter Monday we finished the Easter celebration off with an Easter egg hunt.