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
‘My Name is Not Wigs’ Virtual Talk
We had a lovely time joining Angela Cobbin for a theatre-inspired virtual talk about her book ‘My Name is Not Wigs’.
‘My Name Is Not Wigs’ is the ultimate read for fans of witty behind-the-curtains memoirs, especially those with a penchant for the bright lights of stage and screen: tears and accolades aplenty!
Angela shared interesting facts with our residents about her book, her life and her experiences as a wig creator in London’s West End in celebration of World Theatre Day.
All in all the afternoon was an absolute triumph!
Scrap Book Afternoon
We had decided to bring residents together and spend a lovely afternoon scrap booking some of the things we loved to do.
We was also treated today to a lovely reminiscing session by Alan from Alzheimer Scotland and Aberdeen Library. It's been interesting what we have learned about George Street and bon accord centre.
Everyone is already eager to hear more in another session in future months to come about union Street!
A visit from a furry friend!
Meet Sukie! A lovable elderly girl who was eager to meet lots of people and get her cuddles in. The residents have adored meeting her and absolutely loved the cuddles.
Sukie spent the time going round as many people as she could saying hello and providing a little bit of fuzzy joy and companionship to all who needed.
Sukie is a lhasa apso breed making her fur hypoallergenic, for those with sensitivities to animals.
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
Residents and the team here enjoyed an afternoon singing and dancing to Irish music and creating these great hats!
From an Irish themed menu created by our talented chef - we enjoyed some delicious food.
It was a great day and laughter filled the air!
Fundraising for Ukraine
Residents and staff from Barchester’s Fairview House care home in Danestone are fundraising to try to help ease the suffering of people affected by the war in Ukraine.
Desperately wanting to help in whatever way they can, staff and residents put their heads together to come up with a plan to help raise funds. They landed on the idea of sip and paint sessions, coffee mornings where residents, staff and friends of the home will paint hearts in all different shapes and sizes and sell them for £1 to family, friends and local community groups with all proceeds going to help people of Ukraine.
General Manager, Janet Decourt, says: “We all had the same feeling that we had to do something but we felt at a loss to know what to do to help. That’s when we came up with the idea of painting the symbolic hearts to raise some money which we will donate to Ukraine. We hope everyone will get behind us to help us to help much-needed funds.”
March Mystery Box
Mystery Box time! We love creating monthly themed activity boxes for our residents and this month our theme was "By the beach" we were excited about this one and the residents were too! Each box contained some fizzy drinks, sweets, painting seashells, kinetic sand to make mini sand castles and our personal favourite pin the chips on the seagull!
What will next months theme be?
Upcoming events
April
Step in April and have a peek at the exciting Life Enrichment and Community Events taking place.
Afternoon Tea
Join us on Monday 6th May for an afternoon of decadence, sweet savoury treats and plenty of hearty chatter.
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.
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.
