What types of care does South Grange Care Home offer?

South Grange Care Home offers Nursing care, Residential care, Services for under 65.

Activities at South Grange Care Home

Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.

Watch our video on life enrichment in our homes.

Gillian Conway

Senior Activities Coordinator

Gill has worked for South Grange since 1996. Gill's role in the home is ensuring our residents enjoy a fulfilling quality of life. The programme that Gill and her colleagues provide is stimulating, creative and varied.

Gill enjoys the time she spends with residents and families. The team welcomes any suggestions made by residents and family members in relation to activities.

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 South Grange Care Home

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Residents enjoy trip to local coffee shop

Staff and residents took a trip out to visit their local coffee shop, Bowman’s. Residents and staff had a lovely afternoon out to visit Bowman’s Coffee House which is located on Monifieth High Street. The ladies were surprised to see that their families had even joined them there too. Everyone enjoyed a refreshing hot drink and a delicious home-made cake which everyone all agreed was delicious!

General Manager, Catherine Lappin said: “We absolutely love being able to take our residents out and about to visit local shops like Bowman’s, it makes us so happy to be able to access venues like this. The ladies had a fantastic afternoon and thoroughly themselves.”

We have our own horses in the Grand National

The secret is out, our unexpected delivery was 4 horses to compete in our Grange National.

We have named our horses number 2 Bob the Builder, 10 Pink lady, 21 The Steamies 28 Nightingale.

We are holding our very own Grand National on Friday 12th April. Our ladies and gentlemen will be dressed in their Sunday best and treated to drinks and nibbles whilst being able to have a flutter on their favourite horse.

Harrogate Chocolate Factory

We had a brilliant time across our services with Harrogate Skills 4 Living as they took us on a wonderful virtual visit to their Harrogate Chocolate Factory.

Residents were thrilled to discover details about the chocolate-making process and the fascinating journey from bean to bar, all while enjoying some delicious sweet treats.

The Factory aims to employ people with learning disabilities and autism, involving them in all parts of the process, from sorting and roasting the beans to packaging and sales. The experience was truly enjoyed by all who joined this event.

Beat the Clock

We continue to celebrate a varied life enrichment programme and across our services we linked up with other Barchester care homes and hospitals up and down the country for some interactive Beat the Clock games.

Our residents truly enjoyed solving word puzzles, conundrums and mathematical problems as part of Barchester’s very own game show series.

Everyone who joined had a fantastic time and enjoyed some friendly competition.

St Patrick's Day gets the green light

Residents and staff at South Grange celebrated all things Irish for St Patrick’s Day this week. The home was decorated with shamrocks and everyone dressed in green to mark the day.

Staff, residents and their family and friends at the home marked the day by getting our dancing shoes on and welcoming Gus Zee who gave us an afternoon of Irish gigs. Residents and their families had a great time getting dressed up as leprechauns with our shamrock glasses and having our photos taken with our St, Patricks Day backdrop.

Resident Margaret said: “It has been a lovely day. I really enjoyed myself being up dancing to the Irish gigs and the atmosphere was really good”. A lovely afternoon had my all!

Steeple Church Easter Service

Residents had a lovely afternoon welcoming back the Steeple Church, Dundee who spent the afternoon providing hymns for us to sing and conducting a lovely church service for Easter.

The church also provided the live music to sing with the hymns. We had a guitarist, recorder player and a violinist. This makes the residents feel like they are in an actual church and brings a fantastic atmosphere to the room.

Minister Douglas not only delivered our beautiful readings and prayers for the service but also paid a visit to individuals in their rooms who couldn’t be there for the service. Resident Frances, who attended the Steeple Church and choir before moving into South Grange, said “it was so nice to see some old friends from the church again and be able to chat to them after the service”.