Activities at Fountains Care Home

On our memory lane, we like to ensure that our residents get the most from the activities. We just love having our musical instruments and sing a long sessions. We find this a great way for our residents to relax, enjoy and express themselves in a variety of ways. Here we have our resident’s singing, dancing and playing instruments. Music is good for your soul, body and mind.

Residents at Fountains care home in Solihull had a brilliant day on Sunday 12th November as they marked the start of the Hindu festival of Diwali, popularly known as the ‘festival of lights’.

Residents helped with making colourful patterned rangoli and lighting ‘diyas’, small oil lamps which are lit to signify the triumph of good over evil. Diwali honours Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, the lamps help Lakshmi find her way into people’s homes.

Kitchen Assistant Pat, prepared traditional Indian dishes of warming curries and spicy samosas for the residents to enjoy.

Fountains care home in Solihull commemorated Remembrance Day on Sunday 12 November.  They joined the rest of the United Kingdom in holding a two-minute silence at 11am.  

As well as marking Remembrance Day by wearing poppies and watching the televised service from The Cenotaph, residents took part in therapeutic activities creating poppies, visiting RAF Cosford museum and having and remembrance afternoon tea.

What a successful morning we have had here at fountains care home. This morning our residents, had the chance to get creative using a wide variety of different textured fabrics and materials to create their own autumn wreaths. Our residents, became very engaged when getting busy, digging their way into all of the autumn items/ objects in which they could use. This lead to some fantastic topics of conversations, and plenty of opportunities for all to reminisce about life in autumn.

We have reached out into our community, and made a nice connection with Our lady or the wayside church. We have a resident, Martin, who belongs to the church, sings in their choir and attends regular services. This year, we have been collecting foods for the harvest festival which shall be taking place at the church. Martin has been around to different collection points. Our staff team have been very supportive and the local Tesco’s branch. Gillian the Tesco’s community engagement officer, received our email regarding Martin’s request to help the church help others within the community, they kindly made a donation in which Martin went to collect. Martin and his family have now taken these donations up to our lady of the wayside church.

Out and about again in our mini bus, due to popular demands, we made return retail trip Marks and Spencer’s. Here our residents were joined by a family member, and were able to explore the new store at the sears retail park, they had the opportunity to shop until we drop. Our resident’s, were very much intrigued by the new café and how it was now cashless, this bought on good conversations regarding the changes being made in the future.