Activities at Westvale House Care Home

The sun has been shining here at Westvale and love spending time the garden playing games using our parachute and old favourites such as ring toss. Healthy competition encourages our residents to work harder and strive to be there best, while getting light exercise.

We had a lovely time joining Henry Slator for an exciting virtual event to discuss his book ‘Conversations at the Pond’.

Henry had an unusual writing journey, which many of our residents found inspiring, he underwent chemotherapy in early 2020, which allowed him to rediscover his light-hearted outlook on life by imagining conversations with creatures in and around his large garden pond and adding buckets of fun.

The entertaining Conversations at the Pond, with its mass of colourful illustrations, took our residents along his journey, they felt inspired, cheered and loved hearing all about Henry’s experiences.

The Easter Bonnet competition was a brilliant success this year. We all enjoyed a parade outside in are beautiful garden.

Deborah from musical delights visits us at least once a every two months our residents always  get involved and she has everyone singing along.

Here at Westvale House are residents regularly enjoy pamper day.  Having a manicure followed by and hand massage is always a favourite.

Our residents came together to enjoy an exciting virtual talk courtesy of the team at National Trust Talks Service.  The illustrated talk took us closer to one of Cliveden’s most famous families, the Astors. Our residents were able to discover what motivated William Waldorf Astor, America’s richest man, to purchase Cliveden in 1893 and how the estate became the centre of high society in the 1920 s and 30 s thanks to his son Waldorf and daughter in law Nancy Astor.

The Astors time at Cliveden came to an end in the 1960 s after the estate became infamously associated with Profumo Affair, but the house and garden continue to reflect their innovations and passions.  We all had a brilliant time.