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Community exercise group launched to support older people

Posted on 24 March 2025

As part of our ongoing commitment to keeping all those we support and cares for active, motivated and engaged with their local community, residents at our Colchester-based New Copford Place residential care home are inviting its neighbours to join residents for a fun and inspirational exercise session. At each of our care homes, we have a…

Respite to resident from Wales to Luton

Posted on 21 March 2025

At Little Bramingham Farm, our Luton-based residential care home, resident, Margaret Thompson, has been sharing her respite to resident journey after making the 165.6 mile trip in 2024 to the care home from Builth Wells in Wales to make Little Bramingham Farm her home. Margaret, who was born in Wolverhampton on 4th October 1930, was…

Our care homes take part in immersive Virtual Dementia Tour

Posted on 19 March 2025

Care Teams from The Lawn, our Alton-based residential care home, and Redcot Residential Care Home in Haslemere, were joined by relatives and took part in an immersive Virtual Dementia Tour (VDT) experience, designed to give participants a more profound and clearer understanding of what it’s like to live with dementia. The care team members were…

2025 February highlights from our care homes and services

Posted on 11 March 2025

Across our care homes and services, residents had a wonderful time enjoying a mixture of fun activities and celebrations last month. Here are our 2025 February highlights: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal announced as Patron Friends of the Elderly is honoured that Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has been announced as its Patron.…

Malvern care home residents’ Gardening Club bloomin’ lovely

Posted on 10 March 2025

Residents at Friends of the Elderly’s Malvern-based Davenham, Perrins House and Bradbury Court, our residential, nursing and dementia care homes which are collectively known as Friends of the Elderly Malvern, have been getting their hands dirty, and their nimble green fingers going as The Gardening Club opens for the 2025 season. The Gardening Club, now…