What types of care does Wadhurst Manor Care Home offer?

Wadhurst Manor Care Home offers Nursing care, Residential care, Dementia care, Respite / Short stay, Services for under 65.

Activities at Wadhurst Manor Care Home

On a weekly basis we have many visitors to the home from the people like the University of the Third age and local small animal farms, who bring in their chickens and sheep. We also like to go out shopping and on day trips to local garden centres and when the weather is good picnics and tours of the beautiful local countryside. We have speciality days at the home which could be a theme of a country, or for specific times of year, including Halloween, Bonfire Night or Christmas. We have card games and art classes and a serious knitting team in the home who produce blankets and premature baby clothes for the local maternity unit.

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Sarah Smith

Assistant Activities Coordinator

I have worked at Wadhurst Manor in many different roles since December 2011. Prior to this I worked as a nurse, exercise teacher and and preschool supervisor. I have 4 lovely children who are now grown up and travelling the world. My hobbies include visiting my children, singing, dancing, hiking, mountain biking, skiing, reading and amateur dramatics.I find enabling residents to remain active and engaged both physically and mentally is a wonderfully rewarding job. I particularly enjoy working on our memory lane units becoming immersed in their realities, enabling them to live their best lives by concentrating on what they can do not what they can't.

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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 Wadhurst Manor Care Home

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

Petpals

Petpals brought in some rabbits to see us and everyone really enjoyed the visit. Some residents spent the time sitting quietly and stroking our guests, whilst others used the time to reminisce about past pets.

Wood Wide Web Workshop

We were so grateful to Wadhurst Culture for including us in the 'Wood Wide Web' workshops. Artist, Beccy McCray, joined us for an afternoon and ran two workshops that centred around sharing memories. Residents really enjoyed her teachings.

Armistice Day

Debonnaire Entertainment provided a stunning show celebrating the songs from the war years. It was a wonderful afternoon, with most residents joining in with the singing and dancing.

Amber's Wedding

Residents were thrilled to be a part of the wedding celebrations when Carer, Amber, got married. Amber and her new husband joined us in their wedding attire to reenact the ceremony. Residents joined the congregation and Dennis stood in as father of the bride, Gerald as best man and Marian & Pattie were beautiful maids of honour. Jane Spur came in to play the piano for us and everyone joined in with the hymns that Dennis had chosen.

The Lady of the Manor

Joan celebrated her 100th birthday in style, surrounded by family and friends, and she is now jokingly referred to as 'The Lady of the Manor'.

Halloween Spooktacular!

Everyone got into the spirit of Halloween for our party; residents and staff dressed up and even the afternoon treats took on a Halloween disguise, with decorated donuts that oozed out blood when people bit into them.