Celebrating life at Barchester

We celebrate life through everything we do, from our thoughtful experiences and activities to our delicious food. We offer the latest technology as well as sensory engagement to nurture the wellbeing of our residents. With a wide variety of tailored activities and events we make sure our residents have the best physical, mental, spiritual and social stimulation, all bespoke to them. Take a look at what we’ve been up to…

Elgar Court Care Home

All things WILD!

We welcomed a very special group to our home, with Dave from Reptomania. Dave came to share his love of exotic animals the varied from snakes and lizards to African giant snails and cherry legged millipede.

Residents were delighted and enthralled - and sometimes with a little bit of encouragement to hold or stroke the different animals. One particular residents Leslie has always been fearful of snakes but by the end she was happy to say her mind was changed and now she is happier to be around them. She loved how the little white ball python, called pearl, felt as soft as velvet. And Jenny fell in love with the all the different animals and had a wonderful time holding them.

We can't wait to see them again!

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Elgar Court Care Home

No 'Rocky' starts here!

We always encourage residents to share their special skills and this week, Jenny enjoyed teaching our chef and kitchen team her secret reciepe for 'Rock cakes'! Fun was had by all and we especially enjoyed eating these served with afternoon tea.

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Elgar Court Care Home

Malvern Priory Park in the Sunshine

Staying local this week, our Residents got out and enjoyed the wonderful sunshine at Priory Park which inspired CS Lewis's Narnia, and admired the scenery, watched the ducks waddling around and ate ice cream!

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Elgar Court Care Home

Another day, another FUN trip!

Every week our residents look forward to trips out and about both locally and far and wide! This week we went to Webbs of Wychbold garden centre in Droitwich to get inspiration from their displays - and then put thinking caps on garden design over a nice cold drink in the café.

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Elgar Court Care Home

Our Allotment updates!

We will be bringing you regular updates on how our allotment is progressing each week. After planting out the seedlings, our residents are now preparing the beds they will go in - making the most of the fine weather has been a great way of getting outside and enjoying day!

Why don't you come along and enjoy an afternoon with us and give us your own gardening tips! Tea and cake provided free of charge!

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Elgar Court Care Home

Happy Birthday Dee!

We love to celebrate our residents, and this week Dee celebrated her 86th birthday with her all time fave chocolate cake made by Chef! Happy Birthday Dee, with lots of love from your friends and residents.

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Hazel Lodge Care Home

Hola from Hazel Lodge

Our relationship with our next door neighbours is absolutely brilliant and we're so lucky.
Recently Student Language Ambassadors from Claverham community school taught our residents spanish as well as playing a game of Spanish bingo.
Our residents mentioned in a residents meeting that they wanted to learn a language so we reached out to Claverham.We all had such an amazing time, the students were fantastic teachers and they really made the process fun. We look forward to our next language class.

Residents enjoy royal themed crafts

Our residents had a fantastic time creating their own crowns inspired by King Lear. There was plenty of imagination and creativity as everyone added their own personal touch.

A lovely way to combine arts and a bit of classic literature!

Thistle Hill Care Home

Residents enjoy a delicious baking session

We had a lovely time making cornflake chocolate clusters with our residents, using a recipe sheet with images, we talked through each step together, with some residents helping to weigh ingredients and mix everything together.

They were so tasty, they disappeared before we even had a chance to take a photo! Residents shared stories of childhood baking sessions with their own families and recalling wonderful memories.