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At Friends of the Elderly, we love pets. Knowing how much many of our residents adore all types of animals, we are launching a ‘fur-bulous’ social media campaign – #FurryFriends. “We have lots of pets living in our care homes, and many visiting animals too. From budgies to cats, from dogs to rabbits – even…
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At The Lawn, our Alton-based residential care home, residents have had a fun-filled and laughter-packed time enjoying International Joke Day, thanks to resident Alan Newman and his cheeky sense of humour. Alan, who has been a resident at The Lawn since August 2023, loves telling jokes and entertaining the care team and his care home…
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…
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…
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…