Activities at Brookfield Care Home
Our Activities coordinator dedicates her time on getting feedback from our residents of what they like to do. We have introduced paper mornings which involves group discussions and an active mind, and we also have a variety of entertainers that come in on a weekly basis. We hold a residents quiz once a week as it is one of our more popular activities, we now call it the Big Quiz due to its popularity.
It is important that we involve the community and family in many of our activities. We have the local rugby club heritage centre coming in once a week to do Bocci (indoor bowls) and seated exercise. We also hold cheese and wine evenings for family and residents which are very popular. Here at Brookfield we pride ourselves on the fabulous bond our activity coordinator has with all our residents as they are as happy to see her each morning as she is to see her friends.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Brookfield Care Home
A little competitive fun
A popular activity amongst our residents here at Brookfield is Dominoes. Residents like this game since it reminds them of their childhood and they have happy memories related to this game which they like to share with us.
There is always a little friendly competitiveness involved but everyone always has fun!
Deputy Manager celebrates 20-years long service
A Deputy Manager at Brookfield in Lymm has received a prestigious 20 Year Service Award in celebration of working at Barchester Healthcare for 20 years.
Jane Devoti now Deputy Manager started at Barchester in January 2004 as Care Assistant and has worked with residents and their relatives to ensure that their needs have been met over the years. In 2009 Jane was promoted to Senior Care Practitioner then later to Deputy General Manager.
Residents show their artistic flair
Our residents enjoyed an afternoon of colouring this week, whilst listening to some classic 60s tunes and sharing a cup of tea and chat.
Colouring pictures is such a great way to promote hand-eye coordination and some of our ladies and gents showed their artistic side, with some beautiful shading.
Eyes down for a game of bingo
It was ‘eyes down’ for residents at Brookfield as they attempted to win a full house during a game of themed bingo, with the care team the house callers!
Many of the residents have played bingo prior to moving into the home and bingo continues to be a popular game for the home as part of its life enrichment programme. There is lots of excitement in the air to see who will claim the prize!
Keeping the mind active
Keeping active, having social interactions and being mentally stimulated is very important to Residents at Brookfield. It may have been cold outside but Residents enjoyed a games morning and a little friendly competition playing ‘connect4’
As part of the homes life enrichment programme, we include firm favourites in the homes calendar with fun-filled adapted games that they played over the years in a safe environment!
Berni sings
Brookfield residents enjoyed the gentle tones of Berni Stubbs who visited for the first time this month. As well as entertaining with a wide variety of songs, his unique sense of humour had the residents smiling.
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