Activities at Winchester House Care Home

We wanted to thank all our wonderful nurses for the hard work they do each and every day. Barchester thanked them all with chocolates and we decided to gift them all their own personalised jar of treats.

We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank the nurses in our local community who have also been working extra hard, especially over the past few months, delivering vaccinations to everyone, so we delivered doughnuts to all our local healthy living centres and surgeries.

It was so wonderful to be able to welcome back one of our regular entertainers: Rob T. Rob set up in the courtyard so that all the bedrooms circling him could watch and listen to him sing from the comfort and safety of their rooms. There were smiling faces all round, from staff, residents, and even some of our relatives visiting.

As part of our big garden clean up, we have started a gardening club every Tuesday. The gentlemen love coming out into the court yard to help us clean up and we are looking forward to stripping everything back and started fresh with new plants, flowers, ornaments and lighting. We can’t wait to sit and enjoy our new gardens when they are done.

Staff and Residents recently spent the afternoon making Bird Feeders to spread around our beautiful grounds here at Winchester House.  We have large natural gardens that attract many different birds and songbirds.  They give our residents endless hours of pleasure watching them.  Our home made feeders are basic but currently are doing an excellent job.

 

Here at Winchester House in our Memory Lane,  we understand how important it is to stimulate our residents in many different ways.  We are very proud of our magic table, an all in one interactive solution for stimulation.  The Magic Table is a projector that can project absolutely  anywhere and is seen on the picture above projecting a game onto our floor mat. Our residents love it and there are many,  many games they can play and enjoy the magic of the Magic Table.

We also have some therapy dolls for residents on our memory lane who would benefit from the pleasure and relaxation the dolls could bring.

As per the recent government guidlines, Rochester House is delighted to welcome back family members once again this week!   Relatives are now able to see each other with the use of our visiting suites as well as dedicated family members being able to visit in bedrooms following a negative LFD test and wearing full PPE.   Video calling is also being continued, its such a pleasure to see so many happy reunions.