Activities at Fountains Care Home

Fountains staff and residents enjoyed a coffee afternoon in the café at Fountains.

Sweet treats were baked by the kitchen team and enjoyed with a cup of coffee and pots of tea.

Everyone had a really fun afternoon with lots of laughter and friendship.

Looking forward to when the community can visit and enjoy with us.

A kind member of the community has been keeping herself occupied during lockdown, by knitting dolls for our residents.

These soft dolls are a welcome addition for our dedicated Memory Lane Community.

Thank you Cath.

Fountains staff team joined forces to donate supplies for those most vulnerable in the community, at this difficult time.

The team gave generously and an impressive supply of dried and tinned foods was delivered to The Renewal Christian Centre in Solihull, where Helping Hands were working hard to co-ordinate deliveries.

Lorraine HSA for Fountains learnt of the amazing work that was being carried out to ensure several deliveries a day were sent out across the Borough. The food packages provide variety and support a balanced diet as well as including toiletries, to those most in need.

Working closely with Solihull Council and Age UK, Helping Hands support is invaluable at this current time and is ran entirely by a dedicated volunteer team.

To offer your support please visit www.renewalcc.com or call 0121 711 7300.

Thank you Helping Hands and thank you to the staff team at Fountains for your generosity.

At Barchester, we are always looking for ways to improve our residents’ quality of life. With this in mind the Magic Table has been introduced and Fountains is extremely lucky to have a magic table in our dedicated memory lane community.

The Magic Table is an interactive light projector that was originally developed in The Netherlands. It is a specialist piece of technology designed to support residents living with dementia and is proven to help staff promote stimulation through specialised games.

The colourful light projections, alongside audio, respond to hand and arm movements, enabling residents to play with the light itself, increasing both movement and stimulation.

There are many key benefits for our residents which include, positive effect on wellbeing by improving mood, reducing apathy and restlessness, increasing engagement levels, increased physical and social activity, increased positive emotion, to name but a few.

Samantha Adams, Deputy Manager seen demonstrating some of the games.

Biscuit Day is a celebration of biscuits of all forms – not just cookies but also oatcakes, crackers, water biscuits and crispbreads.

Fountains residents celebrated National Biscuit Day by decorating their own homemade biscuits before enjoying them with a cup of tea.

Everyone agreed that National Biscuit Day is up there with one of the best awareness days!

This is a day to consider all the ways we can help residents maintain their fitness levels, through gentle exercise both in smaller groups and individually as well as their health through nutrition and diet.

Fountains marked the occasion with 1:1 exercise in the form of dancing and walking, topped off with a variety of fruit and vegetable smoothies, prepared by our Head Chef, Darryl.

Moving forward our residents will be offered fruit smoothies in the morning and the afternoon, fruit salads morning and afternoon and at least 2 green vegetable offerings at lunch & supper to support with consuming the recommended "5 a day".