Activities at Westwood House Care Home
As Activity Coordinator at Westwood House I am fully committed to organising activities for all of the residents. This includes activities within the home such as reminiscence sessions, and planning events such as the Summer and Christmas parties. We have also provided some very successful trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and have monthly visits from entertainers and musicians. We are always encouraging local schools to get involved and have recently managed to get a local charity 'Spare tyre' working with us very successfully.
It is important to me 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.
Liz Wickers
My name is Liz and I am the lifestyle coordinator at Westwood House. I have always lived and worked in Southwark and Lambeth boroughs. I spent 25 years within the education sector before deciding to try new roles. As well as teaching I have also had the privilege of being a personal carer in Dementia. I am so happy that I have been welcomed into the Westwood House family where I can continue to grow and develop.
I aim to offer a range of varied and tailored activities and group sessions that are meaningful to each of them. I am thrilled to be supporting the team in delivering fun, engaging and interesting activities for our residents.
I look forward to meeting you all!
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 Westwood House Care Home
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Such a magical time of the year. At Westwood House we just love a get together, so we had a wonderful time decorating our tree, eating mince pies and drinking quite a lot of mulled wine. The residents were on bauble duty and we were joined by our fabulous relatives, they were on decorating duty. We really have a fantastic community here at Westwood, and it's great when to see so many of you enjoying yourselves. We do have a giggle. Thank you to Margaret and Liz who kept us all on track. Our General Manager, Yanique was very excited to switch on the lights, this is her first Christmas with us and we know she is going to just love it. Lots of fun, laughter and treats.
Westwood House Rocks!
We were so excited to have Becki visit us at Westwood House. She entertained us throughout the afternoon with songs from the musicals.
Becki ensures all of the residents are engaged in the performance by bringing a whole range of props that we have so much fun with. The props are a fantastic sensory aid, helping to give a fun, real and tangible experience.
We had a try at playing the spoons, we created a rainbow using silk scarves and quite a few of us couldn't resist wearing the hats.
Our staff also couldn't contain themselves and enjoyed having a boogie.
Becki will most definitely be returning in the New Year.
Spooky Shenanigans!
It’s been a spooky day at Westwood House, getting ready for Halloween. We invited ‘Mavis Westwood’ (Staff chose the name) to join us and she will take pride of place in reception.
We have had many giggles using the props and taking photos.
Please do join in and take your own photos, you can find props at reception. Feel free to send your photos to us. It would be great to see your Halloween antics.
Have a spookingly, happy Halloween everyone!
Congratulations Danny!
A massive CONGRATULATIONS to Danny Hogan for completing the 5K memory walk for The Alzheimer’s Society.
Danny is the partner of our administrator and the money he raised has secured two empathy pets for our residents at Westwood House. We can’t thank him enough, as these pets are an enormous comfort and joy to living with advanced stage dementia.
Empathy pet therapy is widely recognised as an effective therapy, they naturally people draw out a residents caring and nurturing instinct, creating a calmness and lessening anxiety.
Once again we want to say a great big thank you to Danny!
Entertainment by Peter
It's always a pleasure to have Peter entertain us. Redidents and staff all look faorward to Peter's concerts. We all so enjoy a boogie to an array of songs from the decades, which never fail to bring a smile and a memory or two.
Dementia Awareness
At Westwood House we pride ourselves on delivering person centred care and we understand how important it is for our residents living with Dementia to have happy, safe and fulfilling lives. We offer many sensory activities daily to encourage social and physical stimulation. We have a wonderful 'Magic Table' that enhances the lives of our residents by enabling them to use their sensory skills through touch, sight and sound. We hold weekly Namaste sessions where residents, if they choose, can be pampered by having a hand or foot massage, using essential oils and perfumes. We also hold weekly music and movement sessions, playing many genres of music to stimulate and evoke memories of the past. We make wonderful memories and have so much fun! If you would like to join a session, please call or email us, we look forward to welcoming you.
