Activities at Lanercost House Care Home

Staff and residents at Lanercost House Care Home in Carlisle, run by Barchester Healthcare, have been celebrating National Activity Providers & Professionals Week, which took place from January 22-26. Residents and staff wanted to thank the wonderful activities team at the home, whose hard work and dedication make a real difference to the lives of the Residents living there.

National Activity Providers & Professionals Week is an annual event to support activity professionals and thank them for all the many different varied activities they provide to residents and patients.  Each and every member of the team at Lanercost House offer unique, tailored activities and entertainment to the residents every single day. They always go above and beyond their role and for this everyone at the home is truly grateful.

The team at Lanercost House Care Home in Carlisle are celebrating after passing a recent Care Quality Commission inspection with an overall ‘Good’ rating and being praised for operating a safe and well led service.

The report stated that residents at the home received good quality person-centred care and were supported by kind, caring, respectful staff. The inspectors also found that the manager of the home was committed to providing the best quality care for people and to promoting a positive culture for both residents and staff that was open, inclusive and empowering and achieves good outcomes for people.

Residents were very complimentary about the home and the staff, comments included: “I feel safe here, I couldn’t ask for any better.” Another resident said: “All the staff are wonderful, they can’t do enough for you.” A relative added: “We cannot speak highly enough of this place, the staff are superb. We couldn’t want for a better home for our loved one.”

A big thank you to all staff at the home for their hard-work, dedication and support.

Congratulations!

Some of our residents enjoyed getting the paint brushes out and painting with water, they enjoyed painting the pictures then having a chat about what the pictures were which then lead to reminiscence.

We started a new coffee afternoon in our bistro where we decided to have a beetle drive, for some it was the first time they had played the game and it must of been beginners luck to as the winner had never played before. It was such a brilliant afternoon and everyone had fun!

What an amazing experience we had!

All the residents and staff enjoyed seeing all the different creatures and learning about what they do, eat and their background. We loved being able to hold each animal and some of us were brave enough to face our fears doing so!

Thank you so much Claire's Cool Creatures we enjoyed meeting you and all your creatures.

We all got in the festive spirit and made the day fun filled for our Residents. James from Music for Health came to do some exercises for the mind body and soul. Residents enjoy doing the different exercises with instruments, pom pom's and voices, singing some well-known Christmas carols.

Christmas Jumper Day is Save the Children's annual event which raises money for the children who need it most.

Every December, millions of people across the United Kingdom (and beyond!) put on a festive knit at their workplace, school or with friends and make a donation to help give children the magical future they deserve.

It has been a magical Christmas Day at Lanercost House.

Father Christmas and his helpers came to visit to deliver personalised gifts to all our Residents.  

We indulged in a three course Christmas dinner was beautifully made and tasted divine.

It was a truly magical day, everyone had smiles on their faces and it was certainly a day to remember.