Activities at Middletown Grange Care Home

The Middletown vegetable patch is coming on nicely, our residents are looking after the little area so well, watering daily and making sure any weeds are removed. We're hoping for a bumper crop later in the year!

Our residents love getting out into the gardens, and we have several of areas for development. If you love gardening and would like to get involved with any of our resident garden projects, please drop Teri-Ann an email middletown.activities@barchester.com

Teri-Ann treated our ladies to a little pamper session in the salon, with hair-sets, and curls followed by hand massages and nail polishing. Pat commented that her hair's not looked this good in month's!

All ready for a virtual visit to Royal Ascot's Ladies Day.

Friday at Middletown Grange is always a 'Funday'. As part of Nutrition and Hydration week, we started the day with build-your-own Fresh Fruit Friday Kebab on all communities. Each resident had the opportunity to build their own kebab, choosing from a selection of chopped fruits. They all enjoyed playing... one for the stick, one for my mouth!

No Friday would be the same without good old Fish & Chips, it’s a tradition, and nutritious or not, depending on batter thickness and number of chips consumed... our residents just love them with plenty of salt and vinegar! Happy faces all round.

'Thirsty Thursday' saw our resident's joint together to make fresh fruit smoothies!

Orders were being taken by our 'mixologists'; Pat and Marion, both of who took the role very seriously, ensuring the correct measures of fruit to milk and yogurt. Thank you ladies, your fellow residents absolutely loved their delicious beverages.

Throughout Nutrition and Hydration Week our residents have been enjoying some wellbeing activities including; on Wednesday their flower arranging session included learning about edible flowers for cooking, and juices.

In the afternoon, Chef treated everyone to a selection of nutritious filled sandwiches and naughty fresh cream scones for 'high-tea' whilst they watched the racing from Royal Ascot!

Middletown Grange started celebrating Nutrition and Hydration Week (14th – 20th June) today, with a selection of tasty and nutritious breakfast dishes. Our residents had the choice of granola and or yogurt with fresh berries, smoked salmon and soft cheese bagels, eggs benedict and smoke salmon with scrambled eggs and capers!

Nutrition and Hydration Week aims to highlight, promote and celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration locally, nationally and globally. At Barchester, each resident’s specific dietary requirements, likes and dislikes are individually catered for at all our homes. Meals are prepared to each resident’s tastes and all staff understand the importance of good nutrition and hydration for all our residents and patients’ wellbeing.

Home manager; Clem said “Our chefs are trained to prepare dishes to our residents’ specific dietary requirements, as well as all their likes and dislikes. Today’s breakfast menu saw the ‘Full English’ take a back seat. Our residents seemed to love the choices, and I’ve no doubt they’ll be appearing on the menu on a regular basis.”