Wow what an amazing week we have had this week at Bowerfield House

Here at Abingdon Court, being part of the community in which we all live and work is very important to us. We support many local community organisations and last week our focus was on the wonderful dementia friendly café just up the road from us, run by Dementia Friends Abingdon.

To the activities team, 

Thank you so very much for all your care. The Skype calls were precious. We know Dad enjoyed the activities you all provided. Pedro, you are amazing.

Kind Regards, J&M

At Brunel House we are very lucky to now have 2 pianos for the people living with us to enjoy. Both pianos came from local homes where they were no longer in use and the family were looking to gain a little bit more room inside their houses.  

Thursday has become our regular out and about excursion day, which allows us to once again make great use of the Brunel House minibus.

Here at Abingdon Court, we would be lost without our nurses who keep the building alive – from the amazing team who work tirelessly throughout our home, making sure all who live here are happy and healthy, to our home managers who have dedicated their lives to nursing before taking on managerial roles. Nurses really are at the heart of what we do (supported by our excellent carers, of course!).

Eltandia Hall celebrated International Nurses Day with an afternoon of celebrations in recognition of all our nurses. Home Manager, Maribel Pascual organised an awards afternoon to thank everyone for their ongoing commitment and the dedication that they show to all of our residents. Each nurse was presented with a trophy, certificate, and a goody bag of gifts in recognition of their outstanding work.

We’ve been getting creative here at Brunel House Care Home using lots of different mediums; Mary has been making cards using brightly coloured shapes, Jen creating magic watercolour art and Veronica has been colouring in place mats for us to celebrate the arrival of Spring.

Residents at Windmill Court celebrated VE Day with a street party themed lunch, enjoying their favourite choice of lunch - beef burger, chips and a glass of wine! 

On hearing of the residents' request for burgers to be served at the street party to mark the 76th year anniversary of VE Day, local butcher Gary Dutton very kindly donated some home made burgers for the event which everyone really enjoyed.

We had a lovely morning of crafts this morning. The wonderful books were donated by Funnybones Books, which is a company run by one of our residents daughters. She held a fundraising event and purchased the books to donate to the home. Thank you so much, we all loved them.