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
National Hot Chocolate Day at Fairview House
Residents and staff had a great time celebrating National Hot Chocolate Day!
To celebrate we decked one of our trolleys with chocolaty goodies, cream, marshmallows and powder for dusting. To top it off we even had little activity goodie bags with chocolate themed activity books and chocolate coins.
Our General Manager, Janet was delighted to try one for herself too as were many of the staff.
It was a lovely way to start a new week!
Kindness in the local community
We have started to prepare for spring time, with these beautiful daffodils, donated by the amazing charity called Somebody Cares Aberdeen. Thank you so much for the donation, we truly appreciate it! It gave great colour to a lot of our resident’s rooms!
We also attached little ‘happy notes’ to the bouquets to spread the love!
Birthday celebrations at Fairview House
Here at Fairview house we like to celebrate life, today we celebrated not just one but two birthdays!
A big happy birthday to Patricia who turned 87 and to Violet who turned 99 today!
We celebrated with a fantastic handmade cake, afternoon tea and gifts. And of course it wouldn't be a party if we didn't decorate the dining room perfectly for everyone to attend. It was a full house! And everybody enjoyed themselves.
Nescafe virtual experience
We had a fabulous time joining NESCAFÉ’s virtual coffee experience. We were able to look into how they sustainably farm their coffee beans, as well as, to have a virtual tour of one of their factories all from the comfort of our home.
To make things even more interesting, our residents had the chance to test their knowledge with an interactive quiz, and to the delight of all to taste the signature Sweet Cinnamon Shaken Iced Coffee cocktail.
London Fashion Week at Fairview House
Here at Fairview House we marked London’s Fashion Week in style.
We looked through fashion magazines and learnt more about the Swinging Sixties, typified by Mary Quant, Ossie Clark and Bárbara Hulanicki, through to Vivienne Westwood’s punk provocations and Alexander McQueen’s dark and dramatic visions and London’s long legacy of producing extraordinary designs.
We reminisced and discussed what fashion means to our residents and everyone had the opportunity to talk about their favourite outfits.
We even organised our own mini fashion show, which went down a hit!
Everyone had lots of fun.
Love is in the air at Fairview House
It's valentines day, and what better way to fill a day of love then with a wonderful valentines lunch, followed by Jackie Prolly singing for us and of course it wouldn't be valentines day if we didn't have chocolate covered strawberries courtesy of our wonderful chef.
We also wanted to take the time to thank family as we recently had an influx of donations from you all. We now have some wonderful crafts, football items, baking items and more added to our activities corner.
It was a wonderful day enjoyed by all!
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.
