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Felixstowe care home resident celebrates 100th birthday
A resident at Maynell House care home in Felixstowe has celebrated her 100th birthday, marking the occasion with a special party with family and friends. Marjorie Theobald has been a resident at the...
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200 mile round trip to Yorkshire to celebrate 100th birthday
Marjorie Fisher (Madge) turned 100 last week and celebrated by travelling to York with five friends from Smalley Hall in Derby to visit her sister Phyllis aged 95 in a Yorkshire nursing home. The...
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Coventry residents adopt hands-on approach to recruiting care staff
Residents at The Knowles Care Home, in Tile Hill Coventry, are going back to work, joining the management team as Employment Consultants and assisting with the interviews for new care assistants....
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Wroxham resident recalls RAF memories at Aviation Museum
The team at Overbury House residential home in Wroxham, were delighted to arrange a visit for 97-year old Bob Marshall, a resident at the home, to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum; enabling him to...
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Frome care home celebrates new ‘Resident Ambassadors’
Gracewell of Frome, on Welshmill Lane, has selected two residents to take on the very special role of ‘Resident Ambassadors’ at the home. Henry Everett, aged 96, and Rowland Prior (Roly), aged 92,...
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Special 100th birthday at Shropshire care home
A popular resident at a Shropshire care home has celebrated her 100th birthday. Flossie Timmins received a special message from the Queen congratulating her on her landmark birthday and was the guest...
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Care home residents contribute to community remembrance
Residents of Meadow House nursing home in Swaffham, Norfolk have contributed to a local restaurant’s poppy collection for a community remembrance display. This weekend marks the centenary of the end...
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Jewish Care resident lays wreath at Remembrance Sunday service
Residents of Jewish Care homes attended the wreath-laying ceremony at the Edgware cenotaph yesterday on Remembrance Sunday. Cecil Hearne 94, who is a resident at Jewish Care’s Lady Sarah Cohen House in...
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Ivybridge resident celebrates International Men’s Day
A Sanctuary Care resident in Ivybridge is one of the oldest surviving world speedway finalists and his life was celebrated for International Men’s Day with a very special trip. 88-year-old Jack...
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Santa’s little helpers spotted in Camberley
Santa’s little helpers have been spotted running a mock all over Camberley’s Kings Ride. But not to worry, it is all in aid of raising money to beat dementia. December 7th is National Elf Day and is a...
View ArticleSale resident gets an early Christmas treat with an exclusive behind the...
Christmas came early this year for William Jakeman, a resident at New Care’s Ashlands Manor Care Centre in Sale, who was treated to an exclusive behind the scenes tour at Old Trafford. A life long Red,...
View ArticleExercise keeps care home residents healthy and active!
Life’s fab for hundreds of residents of Hull-based Hica Group care homes, following the company’s investment in a new health and wellbeing programme. More than 20 staff have completed nationally...
View ArticleCare home residents visit Canterbury for a day of festivities
Staff of Connors House Residential Care Home in Canterbury treated residents to a day of Christmas shopping in the city centre and a festive pub lunch. With Christmas now just around the corner,...
View ArticleReindeer complete the scene at Bampton care home
A fleet of reindeers took an evening off from pulling Santa’s sleigh to fly into a Bampton care home to recreate the famous Nativity scene with care staff. The seasonal creatures joined Mary, Joseph...
View ArticleStevenage care home staff and residents spread some Christmas spirit in the...
Staff and residents at Jubilee Court care home in Stevenage spread some Christmas spirit as they hosted a free Christmas lunch for elderly people across Hertfordshire. The event, hosted by Quantum...
View ArticleMiddlesbrough Football Club under-23s visit local care home
THE BORO’s under-23s played Santa Claus when they delivered gifts to elderly care home residents in Middlesbrough. The Middlesbrough Football Club youngsters visited The Gables Care Home, on Highfield...
View ArticleHair salon opens at Bernadette House
A resident at a care home in Lincoln had her wish come true when she was surprised by a new hair salon at the home. Yvonne Radford, who is a long-term resident at Bernadette House, in South Park, has...
View ArticleIsle of Wight Couple Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage
Isle of Wight couple John and Dilys are celebrating 50 years of marriage. A relationship that blossomed thanks to a chance meeting at a friend’s party in February 1968. Within five months of meeting...
View ArticleFormer church band member gifted a guitar
FORMER church band member Keith Keenan has been gifted a guitar to continue playing in his care home in Skelmersdale. Keith, who lives at Aaron Crest Care Home, on Tanhouse Road, was given the...
View Article‘Star baker’ Jo marks her 102nd birthday at West Sussex care home
A local resident has recently celebrated her 102nd birthday with a family celebration and a very special birthday cake at The Martlets care home in East Preston, West Sussex. Jo King was born in...
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