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.
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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
Bewitching tricks and spooky treats
Barchester’s Fairview care home, in Aberdeen was a den of ghoulish activity as the home’s spooky Halloween afternoon got in to full swing.
Residents and staff got in to the spirit of things with fancy dress competition and prizes for best costume, decorated spooky biscuits and cupcakes prepared by the homes chef, Halloween fair and games. It was a fun filled day for everyone!
'Tattie' holiday pen-pals
Children at Danestone primary school kindly sent us some cards last week to let us know that they are thinking about us. We decided to respond and relate our cards to the fact that it’s currently the (Tattie) “October Holidays”. This is what they used to get called because when people were off from school they would help their families go tattie picking during this season. Our residents wrote inside the cards what they used to get up to during their time off.
Birthday celebrations
Resident, Harold celebrated his 80th birthday in style surrounded by staff and friends in the home where he was presented with a specially prepared birthday cake. The birthday boy also enjoyed a visit by his wife who also stays at the home along with his family, Harold had a wonderful day.
Residents enjoy a pamper
Residents of Fairview enjoyed a relaxing pamper morning. The home transformed their lounge into a socially distant spa where residents were able to fully relaxed with some lovely calming music playing in the background. Life enrichment provided hand massages and mini spa treatments adhering to covid19 guidelines and wearing of full PPE.
Home joins Aberdeen Scarecrow trail
Fairview activities coordinator, Cassie created a painted window display in the main lounge for residents and members of the local community to enjoy. It can also be seen from outside the home. The window display was done as part of the Aberdeen Scarecrow Trail which has brought much local fun for the children in Aberdeen to find scarecrow art when they are out walking.
We have also started decorating pumpkins in preparation for Halloween.
Birthday celebrations
One of the residents at Fairview care home, celebrated a very special birthday this month 80 years young and staff presented the birthday girl, Kathleen with cards and gifts before everyone joined together in singing the birthday girl a rousing rendition of happy birthday.
Upcoming events
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.
Dessert and Prosecco
Join us on the 7th July as we go al-fresco for our dessert and prosecco afternoon.
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.
