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.
Fiona Mackie
Fiona has been the activities lead at Fairview House since 2021 and is at the forefront for our homes life enrichment.
She speaks about how much she enjoys engaging with the senior generation, learning from their life experience and wishing to pass this on, from this she says "a different day is a different story"
Away from the home, Fiona has a passion for cooking and baking with being a former chef and a love for crafts which she has translated both of these into the homes activities program.
FIona loves to spend time with her family and her two grandchildren.
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
Beautiful bouquets
Our homes had a fantastic time joining members of the Wallace Collection for an amazing sensory session.
During the live virtual experience, our residents explored one of the museum’s most beautiful Dutch flower paintings and learnt new drawing techniques.
We cannot wait to put our creative skills to a test and produce beautiful paintings of our own.
Everyone enjoyed the lovely talk, we all had lots of fun and it’s given us plenty of ideas.
A trip to Tesco
This morning we took some of our lovely ladies for a wander to Tesco and for some lunch to the café as well. It was so lovely to see how much they enjoyed, chatting to each others, laughing, sharing life stories just having a great time outside. Their smile tells how much fun they had and it was absolutely amazing to experience such joy. Ellen was over the moon and said she felt like was her birthday today and was having lunch with her best friends. Margaret and Myra were chatting away and made a lovely friendship and Mary was all smiles.
15-years long service recognised
Today we congratulated Sam by celebrating his 15 year anniversary of working at Fairview House. Congratulations Sam. We appreciate all of your hard work and dedication!
Afternoon tea
Afternoon Tea party and Valerie's Birthday Celebration! We had a lovely afternoon with lots of cakes, music and great company. Everyone enjoyed getting together savoring all the delicious home baked cakes and sandwiches that our chef Alex prepared for our lovely residents and their families.
Coffee and cake
Today Fiona and Elaine had been very busy creating beautiful sitting spaces with the new furniture and decorative objects for our lovely residents and for their visitors to. So the gentlemen enjoyed a movie with a glass of beer and crisps in one corner and on the other corner the ladies enjoyed a cup of tea with a lovely strawberry tart and a chat. This sittings are very good for socialising, for small groups activities and for the visitors.
Music through the ages
Our homes had a brilliant time with curator Sarah Deters as she took us on a virtual ‘Music Through the Ages’ tour of St Cecilia’s Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum.
Our residents were thrilled to discover weird and wonderful musical instruments, hear their unusual sounds, and find out how instruments have changed over the last 500 years.
The virtual live event explored the world-renown collection of musical instruments on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall.
Upcoming events
Pizza & Ale
Join us in May for this special community evening event as we enjoy delicious pizza and a selection of local ales.
Professional's Open Day
Join us on Thursday 9th May for our Professioanal's Open Day networking event.
Whisky Tasting
Join us for an afternoon of Whisky Tasting as we sample a range of the delicious beverge with themed snacks.
Fairview's Got Talent
Join us on Wednesday 29th May for our very own talent show. featuring our talented residents, colleagues and members of the community.
May
Join us in May and take a look at the upcoming Life enrichment and Community Events we have planned at Fairview House.
Bladder & Bowel Seminar
We warmly welcome you to join us for a special community event as we welcome Bladder and Bowel specialist Joanne Hoyle.
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.
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.
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 Cafe
We warmly welcome you to join us on the first Wednesday for our Memory Cafe as we welcome carers and loved ones from the community who have been touched by dementia.
