Activities at Westgate House 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.
Our role in the home is fundamental to ensuring that our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. We strive to provide a stimulating, creative & varied range of activities & events in the home, which everyone can enjoy whether they prefer social group engagement or one to one interaction. Residents choice is what we aim to provide to the best of our abilities. We enjoy being creative, sharing projects and discussing with our residents the kind of activities they would like to enjoy. Both indoor and outdoor activities are offered to cater for all tastes as well as regular outings to local places of interest.
Kelly Meadows & Sandra Joseph
Kelly and Sandra have worked for Westgate House for over 12 years, so have many years’ experience. They love having fun with the residents and providing a variety of activities.
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 Westgate House Care Home
Macmillan Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning
Big Macmillan Coffee Morning and Pudding Club. Bringing two amazing events together! We enjoyed a selection of cakes, and of course some great coffee! We like to support this charity. It touches all of our hearts as we all know someone that has been affected. Eating cake is a great way to aid a worthy cause!
Cultural Day
We had a great party in the garden to celebrate culture day .The home had a vast diversity working and living at Westgate. The aim of the day was to promote cultural awareness, understanding and appreciation by showcasing the diverse traditions, languages and foods. The day included live Entertainment by Cliff Jones, who sings music from around the world, including reggae. The sharing of cultural music is a fantastic way to communicate and promote understanding, staff dressed in their traditional dress and paraded their traditional attire during the afternoon . Residents learnt about the importance of cultures , traditions and traditional dress. There was dishes from India,Caribbean, Philippines,Nigeria and Gambia . Each dish had a variety of flavouring , spices , aroma and smells to tantalize the taste buds .
Shopping And Pub Lunch
This week some of our residents opted for a bit of retail therapy.
With the weather on our side and support from our dedicated Activities Team, residents enjoyed perusing the latest high street fashions before popping into one of our local pubs for lunch and a couple of drinks.
Supporting residents to enjoy outings, shopping, meals out and other trips is a key aspect of the weekly activities calendar.
Family & Friends BBQ
This week we held a Family & Friends BBQ at Westgate House.
We enjoyed live entertainment with the talented Leanne Hollington, who sang songs from the 60s to the 90s. Residents and staff were showing off their dance moves and singing along to their favourite songs on the microphone.
The food was incredible, with Chef Sandra demonstrating her skills whilst we drank cocktails and fruit punch.
Our Activities Team is dedicated to ensuring that we organise events that encourage our residents to host their families and friends at Westgate House. Our home is always to open to loved ones who wish to take part in our life enrichment program.
English National Ballet
English National Ballet holds a workshop here at Westgate House each week called 'Dancing with Dementia'. The residents move to the beat of the music and are led through gentle dance moves, giving an opportunity for exercise and fun.
Namaste
We have regular Namaste sessions to promote relaxation and self-awareness. The sessions are designed to promote wellbeing, during the sessions the lights are dimmed, scents are diffused and gentle music is played whilst residents sit back and enjoy gentle head/hand massages, foot spas, sensory exploration and refreshing drinks.
