Activities at Wilton Place Care Home

Here at Wilton Place we like to keep up appearances.

We start with luxurious bubble baths whilst listening to our favourite tunes. 
Next maybe a massage or make up session.
Then on to the salon for nails and hairdos, any maybe a glass of fizz too!

This week Wilton Place residents have enjoyed harvesting wild strawberries and mint and potting geraniums and snap dragons to enrich their outside space. There's nothing like seeing your hard work coming to fruition.

The Wilton Place community had the pleasure of attending the D-Day 80 Commemoration Ceremony at The Guild on Sunday.

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Entrain Space and Weavers Cafe for inviting us to commemorate D-Day with them in this way. The event was not only engaging but also meaningful. It was a wonderful opportunity for our community to come together and show our support.

Meanwhile at Wilton Place throughout the week we’ve been reminiscing. So many memories of war time to share with one another...........

One of our residents joined the RAF when she left school, she was 20 years old on D-Day. “I worked as a secretary for a Group Captain and was very happy. It was exciting, dancing in the mess and at local hotels. I married, and when I was expecting my first child I had to leave the RAF and I remember how sad I was handing back my uniform.

Another remembers going to the shelters when the siren went off but then got fed up and stayed in bed. “I remember sheltering with my mother and a policeman in a police box during one raid. My kitten, Sandy, ran up the oak tree during another raid and was stuck there all night. I remember wondering what it would be like to live in peace as being at war was all I knew.”

A regular opportunity for our Gents to get together and put the world to rights over delicious snacks and their choice of tipple.

Activities in our home are tailored to our resident's wants and desires. We encourage continuing with hobbies and interests and discovering new ones!

Did you know.......Vesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and is celebrated on the full moon in May? The lotus flower is of great symbolic significance to the Buddhist faith and is commonly used during Vesak to help celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha. 

Our residents enjoyed making their own lotus flowers in craft club and are really proud of the results. They've also enjoyed creating different representations of the forget-me-not, the small blue flower that represents remembrance and is long-associated with dementia.

What do you do when your residents ask to visit Wilton to see the church and pop into Reeves the Baker? You hop on the minibus and go! 

We were hosted by the lovely Sarah who told us about the fascinating history of Wilton Parish Church and showed us the beautiful diptych with its unusual blue paint.

The friendly staff at Reeve the Baker helped us to choose a tasty treat for the journey home.