A massive thank you to the team at Nutanix who made Christmas extra special for our residents at River View Care Home in Reading with a large delivery of presents.

Princess Lodge is a purpose built care home located in the Old Town area of Swindon.  The home offers respite and longer term, residential, nursing and dementia care. The staff team at Princess Lodge is dedicated to offering the highest standards of care in a homely and supportive environment.

Deepdene is a modern purpose built 66 bedded care home registered to provide residential, nursing and care for people living with dementia. 

On the 12th November  Katy from EL Pony Therapy came to visit The Moors Care Centre with her a 10 year old American miniature horse called Monet. The white and brown blue eyed horse visited most of the residents in the home. Monet has been on good morning TV and is very handy around the house; helping with emptying the washing machine. 

Monet is more like a large dog than a horse, he went all over the home and was so gentle and calm with all the residents. 

Residents at Skell Lodge in Ripon had a busy month making a Christmas tree out of recycled items for the Ripon winter wonderland tree competition. We spent many hours making caricatures of ourselves, looking at old photographs of what we used to look like and recreating them. The tree was displayed in Spa Gardens among many more entries and was seen by hundreds of people as they visited the event.

December brought with it a time for bringing people together and a feeling of warmth, joy and happiness. Over the course of December we were delighted to open our doors to students from local schools to sing carols for our residents. The students not only sang rehearsed carol songs and well known Christmas classics but also handed out Christmas cards and invited conversation by introducing themselves to residents. Some students had learned Christmas songs through Makaton and rehearsed dance actions to relate to the carols.

On the 17th December we held a day to raise money for the Alzheimer's society by dressing up as elf’s for the day and participating in games with many treats to go around. We had guess the name of the elf teddy, pick a number to win a prize, there was a tombola and an ongoing raffle. This is for those who did not have a chance to buy a ticket on the day to be able to and for us to increase the amount raised for the Alzheimer's Society. 

December has been a busy month for us at Water Royd House. We decorated the home ready for Christmas with lots of bright lights, baubles and  Christmas trees around the home. During December a local company joined us to perform a show for all our residents, families and friends. Everyone had a wonderful time dancing and singing along. 

Bowerfield House Care Home in Disley welcomed a performer to sing for residents in December. Everyone had fun clapping and singing along to the music.  

Some of the resident's enjoyed an outing to the Library service in Disley Community Centre. One of our resident's, Jenny enjoyed seeing the toddlers group in the library singing along and running about. Jenny was an avid reader and enjoyed looking at the library space. 

The Christmas season is well under way at Bowerfield Court. We have been busy with activities, events and outings with much more to come in the weeks to follow.