Archive for January 2016

Wow! The Christmas celebrations kicked off with a bang! The Spangles joined us for an afternoon of Christmas carols, songs jokes and dancing. We all had a fantastic time!

Pat, Dennis and Joseph had a great time during this historical outing – whilst taking in their own memories of days gone by.

The residents at The Mountains enjoyed a spectacular performance of the Cinderella panto.

The Christmas parties were separated into 2 days this year (10th and 12th December). Residents joined their families for a 3 course meal to celebrate Christmas. The meal was for families to have the “Christmas day feel” so they could be together and enjoy themselves being waited on hand and foot by our staff who…

As we move away from the warm summer days to those cold, blustery winter ones, our activities co-ordinators in all the Milkwood homes are planning more things to do indoors. As we age, or perhaps develop dementia, music can be the key to unlocking good memories from our past. We can all remember popular tunes…

All of our residents helped with this year’s decorations – we had 3 Christmas trees up and even a Santa Claus and his sleigh complete with reindeer and elf’s.

Making a guy brings different talents! May and Les working hard. Barbara getting side tracked and Joyce sleeping on the job… While the humble walking stick is multi tasking!

Daisy’s daughter Carol and son in law Steve came in and did a talk on Indian clothes and headwear. They demonstrated some headwear and Carol tried on a lot of clothes that she had made. She also allowed the staff and residents to try some clothes on. It was a great success and a big…

We are delighted to announce that work is now underway to build a brand new Milkwood Group dementia care unit on our Ganarew House site in Monmouthshire. This new specialist accommodation will be called The Orchard and offer 15 luxury bedrooms. All the spacious individually appointed suites will feature walk-in showers and a lounge area,…