Activities at Fairview House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators create a weekly planner that consists of a variety of activities, which caters to all residents' needs as best as possible. The most popular activities are bingo, which we host twice a week, flower arranging and weekly visits from Vinnie our pet therapy dog. Residents also enjoy minibus trips in the nicer weather and we attend a concert every month. We are also involved in the Council Well-being Team, which keeps us up-to date with upcoming events within the community and provides interesting ideas for activities we can try in the home.
Throughout the year, we host various special events, including themed open days and summer and winter fetes that people in our local communities are welcome to join us for. We also have monthly church services with Rev. Ann from Danestone Congregational Church, which is open to loved ones as well.
Fairview House Activities Team
Chloe, Cecilia and Veronica make up our fantastic Activities Team here at Fairview House.
They develop and oversee an active living programme for each resident, which encourages mobility, social contact, independence and fun. Each and every person can thrive and live to their full potential with no day ever being the same. They bring great enthusiasm and spark to the home and have one passion, which is to deliver an amazing and vibrant activities programme to cater to all tastes and abilities.
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 Fairview House Care Home
Enjoying Pride month
This June, staff and residents at Fairview House care home in Aberdeen, have been creating decorations, festooning their home with rainbows and enjoying the colourful celebrations from around the world. Lots of the festivities from different parts of the UK and from around the world are available to watch online and residents have had a fantastic time experiencing the different parades and carnivals on offer.
Healthy Eating Week
Staff and residents at Barchester’s Fairview House care home in Aberdeen have been celebrating Health Eating Week by taking part in a range of different activities to promote eating well. Healthy Eating Week is an annual event run by the British Nutrition Foundation to highlight the importance of healthy, active lifestyles and invite everyone to ‘find your healthier you!’
The staff and residents got into the spirit of the week by setting up a hydration station to go around all of our resident’s rooms and lounge areas to ensure that we were all keeping hydrated. We also came together to make our own fruit salads and learn about the importance of getting your 5-a-day into your diet. Throughout the week we also conducted our balloon volleyball and music and movement classes to ensure everyone was getting some exercise every day.
RAF Hendon
Across our services we had a lovely time joining Rhiannon Watkinson from the RAF Museum London for an interactive talk exploring the exciting and innovative aviation history of Hendon.
Our residents were able to learn about the first flights from the fields at Hendon, the creation of the London Aerodrome and Battle of Britain pilots who flew from RAF Hendon.
The talk also included photographic and film material from the Museum’s archive. Residents across our homes had a fantastic time and we truly enjoyed the virtual experience.
World Milk Day
To celebrate World Milk Day, residents enjoyed our delicious Milkshake Cart.
We had chocolate, vanilla and strawberry milkshakes alongside a fruit punch for anyone who didn't like milkshakes. Thank you so much to our chef Alex who supplied this for us, everyone loved them!
Many residents enjoyed the milkshakes so much they had a lot of refills! This was a great way to bring something new into the home and we will definitely be doing it again!
Birthday celebrations for a special lady!
We had a wonderful time celebrating our Margaret's Birthday.
Residents and staff came together to celebrate over a tea party with a delicious homemade cake from Chef, Alex along with cakes and scones.
Margaret had a wonderful day celebrating her special day.
International Nurses Day
Fairview House would like you all to join us to wish all of our Nurses a very happy International Nurses Day.
Nurses at Fairview and around the world celebrate every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.
Lara, Operations Manager at Fairview House would like to thank the amazing Nursing team here for the care compassion and support they give the the Residents families and each other.
Upcoming events
Macmillan Coffee Morning
We warmly welcome you to join us at our Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 27th September.
Summer Newsletter
Take a look at our latest edition of the homes newsletter and read about the latest news from the home.
September
Join us in September and take a look at our life enrichment and activity events coming to the home.
Cheese and Ale Afternoon
Join us for an afternoon of social fun as we sample a variety of ales and cheese, with live entertainment.
Movie Club
Every night from 6pm join our residents for our daily movie club featuring a movie matinee performance.
Respite- Are you looking for a extra care break?
If you are looking for a little care break for yourself or a little care break pop in and see what we have to offer.
Emergency Services - Take a break on us!
We offer a warm welcome and a hot drink any time you need one - to all emergency services personnel, police, ambulance, district nurses - pop in any time!
Memory Lane Café
Join us every first Wednesday of the month for our memory lane cafe
Volunteers - Could you make a difference?
We recognise the special impact that volunteers can make on the day to day lives of our residents. If you would like more information we'd love to hear from you.
