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2024 June highlights from our care homes and services

Posted on 12 July 2024

Across our care homes and services, residents had a wonderful time enjoying a mixture of fun activities and celebrations last month. Here are our 2024 June highlights: D-Day honoured as Malvern residents and clients transport to 1944 The care team at Malvern-based Davenham, Perrins House and Bradbury Court care home and Malvern Day Care transported…

Work colleagues by chance, best friends by choice in Malvern

Posted on 11 July 2024

For June’s National Best Friends Day, our three Activity Coordinators at Malvern-based Davenham, Perrins House and Bradbury Court residential, nursing and dementia care homes, which are collectively known as Friends of the Elderly Malvern, have been talking about how their friendship blossomed and grew thanks to working together. National Best Friends Day is the annual day…

Haslemere care home Manager shares ‘Midwife to Carer’ journey

Posted on 9 July 2024

To celebrate this year’s International Day of the Midwife, Jan Daly, the Registered Care Home Manager at Redcot, our residential care home in Haslemere, Surrey, has been sharing her own ‘Midwife to Carer’ journey. “From a very young age, I knew I wanted to work in the Care Sector, either as a Nurse, Midwife or…

Wallingford residents set the biscuit tin straight

Posted on 5 July 2024

At The Old Vicarage, our Wallingford-based residential and dementia care home, residents have spent a ‘cracking’ time celebrating this year’s National Biscuit Day. “We wanted to do something a bit different to mark National Biscuit Day,” said Carol Bourne, Registered Manger at The Old Vicarage. “The residents love not only a good cup of tea,…

Lifeline offered to older people who are lonely and living in poverty

Posted on 1 July 2024

With around one in five pensioners struggling with the burden of financial hardship and loneliness,[i] it is no wonder that our charitable grants programme is inundated with pleas for support. “Every day we receive grant applications from older people who are isolated, and often tell us they go for days without seeing – or even…