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…

Bere Grove Care Home

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Bere Grove residents took a trip down memory lane this week with a visit to 19 Fourteas Tearoom in Havant. It was such a brilliant tea room and provided our residents with an amazing experience, we can't recommend it enough.

The tea room was full of memorabilia that sparked conversation and memories, and the residents loved chatting all things war time, it certainly brought history back to life.

Thank you for making us feel so welcome, we will definitely be back soon!

Eyes Down and Dabbers at the Ready

It was eyes down and dabbers at the ready at Bere Grove as our residents joined the Barchester Bingo Bonanza today!

Our residents joined in a nationwide game of bingo with our other 260 homes across Barchester Healthcare. It was wonderful to be part of such a big event, all playing together at the same time!

There were plenty of prizes, lots of laughter and smiles all round.

A brilliant way to bring everyone together for some friendly competition and community spirit.

Well done to all the lucky winners, we hope you enjoy your prizes for a line and a full house.

Spring Flower Arranging

At Ritson Lodge we support and encourage our residents to continue doing the things they love whilst also making new friends. Activities that help or residents boost cognitive and motor skills help provide holistic benefits that enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of residents.

Getting ready for Spring our Residents asked the Activities Team to plan a flower arranging session. The arrangements were then place around the home to celebrate an early spring.

By taking regular feedback and requests from our residents we can enhance our life enrichment program to suit the interests of the residents.

Denmead Grange Care Home

Garden wind chimes, what a delight!

The garden is bursting into life, the bulbs have broken through, the flowers are blooming, we have seen lots more birds in our delightful woodland garden and residents have been getting creative with making and painting some stunning wind chimes.

Denmead Grange Care Home

Baking Up A Storm

Our residents regularly enjoy a baking session with Head Chef Craig.

The flour comes out, the bowls are ready and the fingers work their magic.

Baking club is a great opportunity to revisit pleasurable activities, to share in the joy, to reminisce and of course to then delight in all the tasty treats that result!

Bayleaf Care Home

Fiesta Time at Bayleaf

We had a great afternoon yesterday as we celebrated the Mexican festival Día de la Bandera "Flag Day".

Día de la Bandera "Flag Day" is a national holiday in Mexico dedicated to the flag of Mexico and the residents enjoyed decorating the lounge with Mexican Flags whilst the staff dressed up in traditional Mexican outfits.

Our resident Mike took great pleasure in showing pictures of himself back in the late 1950's wearing a Mexican Sombrero and telling us stories of his global travels from his military days.

It was another memorable afternoon here at Bayleaf filled with fun and laughter.

Community Choir Visit

We had the pleasure to warmly welcome Lorna from the Stamford Bridge Community Choir. to our home.

Lorna led her audience of residents through a selection of classic songs ranging from all time favourites by Cliff Richard, Abba and Doris Day. We can't wait to welcome Lorna back in April.

Elgar Court Care Home

Healthy Heart Day

This week our home supported the national Healthy Heart Day, by offering free blood pressure screenings to assess physical well-being, and early detection of potential health problems.

It was a great opportunity for our community to find out about healthier living habits and where to access further help and support including healthy tweaks to our diet and exercise . Supported by information from the British Heart Foundation and Heart UK, members of our local community came along to take part.

Kate Aughton the Care Manager at Elgar Court said, "It was marvellous to see people come along and see how easy it is to make small changes to their lifestyle to promote a healthy lifestyle". Guests, Josephine Westbury and Marlene Morgan pictured here, learned all about blood pressure monitoring by using our devices, and we all so took their temperature and their blood oxygen saturation levels using an oximeter. Josephine said, "It's a very interesting and useful event to come to and I am reassured about my health relaxing by over some cake and coffee!".

If you would like to have your blood pressure taken, come along to our home and we will happily do this for you.

Cheese & Wine Quiz Night

Our monthly quiz night is always so much fun with everyone testing their wits against our quizmaster Godfrey and their fellow team mates. With residents and members of the community coming together to enjoy some delicious refreshments it really is the perfect way to spend the evening.