Live Music Therapy

Music therapy at its finest Research has shown how live music in care settings can help decrease levels of agitation and increase wellbeing for people living with dementia. Even when people don’t have dementia, live music is proven to reduce stress, improve moods and increase physical activity (t...

Halloween Fun

A spook-tacular day Our ladies and gents enjoyed a fun Halloween party at Glenburnie Lodge. It was great to see so many of our families and the wonderful costumes, which were frightfully good. At one stage we thought we would need to call The Ghostbusters! #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } ...

Coffee Morning

Charity coffee morning We had a fantastic coffee morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. It was great to see our families and friends joining our ladies and gents enjoying some amazing cakes made by Amanda. Our receptionist Nicola also made a cake so thank you to them and everyone who took par...

Learning Something New

Every day is an education “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” We thoroughly agree with the legendary musician BB King who this quote is attributed too, and we demonstrated that recently at our regular sewing club, In the latest session, our sewing teach...

Keeping Fit

Keeping fit It’s important to stay active at any age, but even more so when you get older, so as part of the activity programme at Glenburnie Lodge we work with a national company called Move it or Lose it! who deliver exercise classes in care homes. Suzanne from Move It or Lose It was in the home...

Sharing Memories

Reminiscing Sharing memories and reminiscing are important as you get older and in a recent one-to-one session, our Activities Coordinator Reka spent time with one of our gentlemen Tim who shared his hiking adventures to the Brecon Beacons and other places he used to visit. Reka talked about her lo...

Getting creative

Getting creative We spent a lovely afternoon spent making a Halloween ghost banner and enjoying some dog therapy as well. Everyone had a good laugh. #gallery-7 { margin: auto; } #gallery-7 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%;...

Zumba

Sewing Club

Sewing Club We have a sewing club at Glenburnie Lodge and recently we spent the afternoon making glasses cases and drawstring bags. Caroline, the daughter of one of our gentlemen, was kind enough to teach us some new tricks and everyone really enjoyed the session. It’s a great activity for concent...

Games

Dominoes and cards All of our activities are guided by our resident’s interests and in one case a gentlemen enjoys playing dominoes so our Activities Coordinator Reka sat down with him to play a few games and have some quality 1-1 time as well. We have also got a regular card game which encourages...

Family time

Family time at our BBQ party Our ladies and gents were joined by their families, friends and staff for our first BBQ party. The weather didn’t play ball but it didn’t prevent us from having a good time indoors instead. Great food, great company, great day! #gallery-8 { margin:...