What types of care does Milford House Care Home offer?

Milford House Care Home offers Nursing care, Residential care, Respite / Short stay.

Activities at Milford House Care Home

The Activities Team at Milford House are dedicated to providing a range of stimulating activities for both groups and individuals, that promote both physical and mental wellbeing based upon resident's interests both past and present. As a member of the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) the team are always striving to incorporate best practice into the array of activities on offer and to enhance their own skills through qualification with NAPA to NVQ Level 3 in Activities Provision. The team combine weekly activity favourites such as sherry mornings with special events, musical entertainments, slide shows, outings in our own mini-bus as well as interacting with local community groups such as Plain Arts Salisbury to showcase resident art and creativity and others who come into the home to interact with our residents. Milford House also benefits from a strong network of volunteers who support the Activity Team as they deliver their programme and who, along with friends and relatives, are always welcome to come and join in our sessions and outings.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Kylie Colman

Activities Coordinator

Kylie has three years experience as an Activities Co-Ordinator and has loved every moment! Having recently joined the Milford team she is looking forward to getting to know all our residents and to delivering, alongside the rest of the team, an interesting and diverse programme of activities. She loves being outside and in particular organising trips out of the home and activities and events that take place in our gorgeous gardens.

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 Milford House Care Home

Visit our Facebook page to keep updated with all the activities in our home

Amanda Starts Advent

We were delighted to have Amanda back to sing for us and get our Christmas under way by turning the first bauble on our advent calendar. Each individual bauble was made by a resident and everyone was delighted with the results. We are looking forward to revealing each day’s surprise.

Elvis has Enterted the Building

Residents from Milford House travelled to Rothsay Grange - another Barchester home in nearby Andover - to enjoy an afternoon with Elvis. Singing all our favourites, we were joining in and moving to the beat as Elvis crooned away and brightened up a dull winter afternoon for those who made the journey. A huge thank you to residents and staff at Rothsay for making us all feel so welcome.

Singing & Dancing

Over the course of the year, residents have been entertained on a number of occasions by Mike & Muriel who give us an hour of music, singing, reading and dancing and who have become firm Milford favourites. Mike and Muriel have come to us as part of an initiative organised by the Imperial Charity based in Warminster. They have provided a range of entertainers for us - one each month - and have been fantastic, and we are looking forward to welcoming them all back in 2017.

Long Service Award

Here at Milford House, we are always proud to celebrate with staff when they reach milestones in their careers here with us, and we were delighted to share in Sister Cherry's achievement of 15 years service. Cherry, pictured here with our Operations Manager, Margaret, is now looking forward to her next 15 years with us!

Christmas on Our Minds

Residents at Milford have been thinking about Christmas - yes, only a few shopping days away - and, as a result, have started to make Christmas crackers that we are going to give to all our visitors who come and share their time with us over the holidays - particularly, our local Brownies and junior schools, who come and sing for us. So, the Milford elves have a little production line going and, so far, we have been delighted with the results.