Activities at White Lodge Care Home

Residents and staff at white lodge participated in a game called "guess how many marbles are in the jar".

It was not only fun guessing the number but also touching the marble took our residents back to their childhood. One of the residents Joyce shared her memories how she used to play with marbles by making holes in the ground! She also thanked us for arranging the game as she loves the sound of marble.

In the jar there were 158 marbles. The winner, Barbara has guessed the nearest and she said it is 157 marbles! Pretty close isn't it? Barbara said she is absolutely thrilled by the fact that she nearly guessed it right and she is so happy to win a lovely gift set for herself.

Today we celebrated Indian day at white lodge with special menu of Indian cuisine including chicken curry and pilau rice for lunch and samosa, chicken pakora, chicken curry bites, onion bhaji, papadam, kheer, semolina, Indian shortbread and masala tea for afternoon tea!

Our kitchen has done wonderful job with the food, they were absolutely amazing and our residents thanked the chef personally. The activity department has done a great job with the decoration to introduce Indian culture to the residents.

Residents at white lodge had fun making caterpillars with pom poms this afternoon. While we are working on our caterpillars, one of our residents Jessie made her own version of colourful snowman with hands and legs.

Crafting is always fun! Crafting is a great way to help you cope with our depression and reduce our anxiety as it keeps our mind busy and enables us to focus on the task at hand. Crafting increases dopamine levels in our brain, it can make us feel happier, which can have a positive impact on our everyday life.

The residents loved the end result so much that they made one of each and said they want to keep these to themselves!!!

The week started with creativity!

Today morning we had a activity planning meeting with the residents where we discussed about what activities we want to do this week.

After lunch we coloured lots of sea shells, let them dry and stick them around a vase. The decorated flower vase was appreciated by everybody! This gave the residents a sense of achievement.

Later in afternoon we did crosswords in the lounge with a cup of tea and enjoyed the sunshine!

Liz and David came to White Lodge to perform church service with the residents. They had a peaceful afternoon followed by hymns and afternoon tea.

The weather might not be very pleasant this summer but the residents are enjoying the sunshine whenever they can!

For the elderly, engaging in outdoor activities is a time-honoured way of improving mental health, enhancing relationships, reducing feelings of isolation, encouraging energy, speeding up recovery, lowering stress, fighting depression and anxiety, and contributing to general overall health.

Yesterday the residents at white lodge played garden/outdoor target ball game. We made sure to practice before we started playing! The game was pretty hard as we had 2 winners Jessie and Graham and both of them scored 200. Then we decided to play a tie breaker round and Graham won the game this time but he gave his prize to Jessie, how nice of him!!!