A keen amateur photographer living with dementia is finding great joy in being supported to re-engage with his former hobby by staff at the home where he lives in Wellington. When 79-year-old Roger Jack moved into Camelot House and Lodge in October 2022, his family was asked to share details of his interests with the […]
A new community group, launched at the beginning of October to support worthy causes in the Plymouth area, raised £2,415 in its first two months and has gifted the money to a dementia care home in St Budeaux. Hearts and Smiles Together is a group of seven friends who collect donations and sell items for […]
A Japanese woman who has been living in the UK for nearly 30 years has been enjoying a ‘cultural experience day’ organised by her care home in Bridgwater to enable her to revisit her native heritage. Seventy-three-year-old Fumiko Mackintosh is the newest resident to move into specialist dementia care home Avalon, where staff arranged a […]
Wellington-based dementia care home Camelot House and Lodge has contributed over £130 to their local hospice’s autumn fundraising campaign after a ‘Wear it yellow’ day that saw the whole home drenched in sunshine colours and a range of fun money-making activities laid on. The home’s activities team brainstormed ways to embrace the yellow theme and […]
The residents of a Wellington dementia care home have been celebrating getting back to near-normality after Covid with a special Harvest Festival service in association with their parish church, St John the Baptist. The service at Camelot House and Lodge was led by church members, Cyndy Maskew and Maralyn Norman, with support from Richard Dempslake, […]
The manager of a specialist dementia care home in Bridgwater has been invited to take part in a research project being organised by The Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland which aims to improve the public perception of care workers and deliver a much-needed boost to employment in the care sector. Jess Hawker, […]
Residents, families and staff at a Plymouth dementia care home made the most of the late summer sunshine to enjoy their first summer fair since before Covid, and raised £385 for their residents’ fund at the same time taking their total for the year to just over £2,000. Staff and friends of Butterfly Lodge in […]
Residents at a Bridgwater specialist dementia care home have been enjoying their own personalised walking aid storage bags and blankets, thanks to the efforts of the local Women’s Institute (WI). Hazel Hillman along with her group of volunteers at the Somerset County federations have been hard at work sewing and knitting colourful materials for the […]
A specialist dementia care home in Wellington has been recognised by a national standards body as an exemplar in the quality of palliative care they provide for residents, scoring full marks in its recent inspection, and now qualifies as a finalist in October’s national awards for Care Home of the Year. It is the fourth […]
Thirty-seven works of art created by people with dementia living at a Bridgwater care home have been sold in an online auction, boosting the residents’ activities fund by over £100 and creating great excitement among the artists and their families and friends. Lisa Priddice, who leads the activities team at Avalon Nursing Home on Taunton […]
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