Activities at The Fernes Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
At The Fernes we endeavour to make our care as personal as possible, including when it comes to activities. We will give you a 'Getting to Know Me' booklet for you to fill out with your loved one before they arrive, which includes a little life history and a tick sheet for a vast amount of activities. This enables us to offer the activities we know they will enjoy and enables us to learn valuable information about their lives and what might stimulate them in conversations and trips.
Our specialist Activities and Lifestyle staff make sure there are always meaningful activities to take part in, such as helping in the garden, baking some bread to have with our dinner, and trips out to various locations nearby such as the beach and the garden centres. Residents are encouraged to take part, but it is always the resident’s choice to participate or not as we believe that having choice is very important to help our residents feel in control of their lives. There are activities on offer every day (and night for those night owls) in the form of word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, arts and crafts, needle crafts and board games to name a few. We have entertainment that is organised at least twice a month such as Music for Health, Zoolab or musicians, and also have a wonderful Yoga instructor who comes every other week.
Activities are provided by everyone in our home from carers and specialised activities staff, right through to our admin team. If there is a task that needs doing and a resident would like to do it, such as sealing envelopes and putting stamps on or handing out popcorn for our Movie Mondays, they are very welcome to help out which enables us to give them a better feeling of purpose and self-worth.
We are a registered member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), which means that we are always working to make the quality of life of all of our residents as high as possible by working with person-centred activities that aim to stimulate our residents, both mentally and physically.
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 The Fernes Care Home
World Puppy Day
Yesterday we took full advantage of celebrating World Puppy Day, we have many residents here who have family pets and we welcome the lovely dogs in nearly every day!
Seeing a family dog in a care home can significantly boost residents' well-being, offering companionship, reducing social isolation, and potentially improving mental and physical health.
We also welcomed back puppies Dolly & Nola who visited us over Christmas and our residents fell in love all over again!
All dogs left after lots of cuddles and petting and a treat box from our dog station! 🐾
Garden Day
Beautiful afternoons spent in the garden!
As the sun has been shining and the days are lighter for longer we have been enjoying even more time out in the garden.
Residents enjoy sitting outside and socialising, walking together and counting their laps of the garden for daily exercise, helping with planting new flowers and taking down old planters, the trees are finally budding and more colour is popping within our grounds!
“Good friends are like springtime! A breath of fresh air!”
Portchester Castle Outing
Mini bus trip in the beautiful sun today!
We have enjoyed a lovely morning out enjoying the beautiful weather today! We decided to go to Ports down Hill to look at the views on such a lovely clear day, and our ladies reminisced about the local area as some of them have lived in the area previously.
We then moved on to Porch ester Castle and enjoyed a walk and tea/biscuits in the beautiful Church which one of our residents was married in.
What a beautiful day and lovely morning out with our wonderful residents!
Sunday Social Club
Chair Exercises for Improved Stability
At The Fernes we are very fortunate to have a qualified exercise instructor on our Activities Team, Karen loves to work with the residents on improving their core stability to decrease their likelihood of falls.
Group Exercise is also fantastic for socialisation and just great fun.
Flower Arranging
In readiness for Spring ithe residents enjoyed some flower arranging. This is a great way to socialise and enjoy others company with tea and biscuits and beautiful flowers which we then display around our home.
