Activities at Lanercost House Care Home

We brought in the Chinese New Year and the year of the Dragon with festive celebrations across the home.  Residents enjoyed getting creative and making their own dragons and then sampling some of the delicious Chinese themed food prepared by our Chef.

Some of us had a go at using chop sticks, which isn’t as easy as it looks! - but we all had a wonderful day embracing the Chinese culture and really enjoyed celebrating this occasion.

We enjoyed making bird feeders out of cereal and pipe cleaners and filling up bird feeders with fat balls ready to take part in the Big Garden Bird Watch, our gardens didn't have many just our usual visitor the pigeons.

Sheila Resident here said 'I've always loved looking after the birds in my garden and making sure they have enough food'

What better way to start the day than with some gentle chair exercises. 

We all know how important it is to keep healthy and active, so we are always looking for ways to support of Residents to do this.

In our latest session we used our new resistance bands and parachute games.

Residents enjoy gentle exercise classes every week its a good way to keep active and have a little social time too!

Staff and residents at Lanercost House Care Home in Carlisle, run by Barchester Healthcare, have been celebrating National Activity Providers & Professionals Week, which took place from January 22-26. Residents and staff wanted to thank the wonderful activities team at the home, whose hard work and dedication make a real difference to the lives of the Residents living there.

National Activity Providers & Professionals Week is an annual event to support activity professionals and thank them for all the many different varied activities they provide to residents and patients.  Each and every member of the team at Lanercost House offer unique, tailored activities and entertainment to the residents every single day. They always go above and beyond their role and for this everyone at the home is truly grateful.

The team at Lanercost House Care Home in Carlisle are celebrating after passing a recent Care Quality Commission inspection with an overall ‘Good’ rating and being praised for operating a safe and well led service.

The report stated that residents at the home received good quality person-centred care and were supported by kind, caring, respectful staff. The inspectors also found that the manager of the home was committed to providing the best quality care for people and to promoting a positive culture for both residents and staff that was open, inclusive and empowering and achieves good outcomes for people.

Residents were very complimentary about the home and the staff, comments included: “I feel safe here, I couldn’t ask for any better.” Another resident said: “All the staff are wonderful, they can’t do enough for you.” A relative added: “We cannot speak highly enough of this place, the staff are superb. We couldn’t want for a better home for our loved one.”

A big thank you to all staff at the home for their hard-work, dedication and support.

Congratulations!

Some of our residents enjoyed getting the paint brushes out and painting with water, they enjoyed painting the pictures then having a chat about what the pictures were which then lead to reminiscence.

We started a new coffee afternoon in our bistro where we decided to have a beetle drive, for some it was the first time they had played the game and it must of been beginners luck to as the winner had never played before. It was such a brilliant afternoon and everyone had fun!