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Care home invites the community in
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Alexander Grange Care Home invited the local community to join them as they held their summer fair recently as part of national Care Home Open Week.
They threw open their doors and had stalls, refresh ments and activities for both guests and residents to enjoy.
Care Home Open Week 2023 has been devised to connect care homes across the country with their community. Care homes are fan tastic community hubs, with outstanding facilities, filled with the incredible people that live and work within them.
Care Home Open Week provides homes with the opportunity to show what they have to offer, their fantastic facilities, activities and services, reminding their neighbours that they are there if they need support. It also provides the perfect opportunity to show fantastic career opportunities that are available in the sector, which encourages the community to support and build connections with their local service, considering how they can support those living and working in care communities throughout the year.
Customer relations manager, Sandra Patricio said: “Care homes are still a taboo subject to many and we want to try and help break that taboo. We want to be seen as part of the community – people can pop in and have a coffee and we won’t expect them to commit to anything.
“The day was all about giving to the community and not asking for anything in return. We also tried to support small businesses by inviting them to have a stall at our event. People think once you enter a care home you are locked away from the world, but we are still very much a part of the community.”
As part of the special week, they invited a chocolatier in to hold a workshop, as well as the Mosaic Café from the Bradbury Centre in Wokingham.
And each month residents have been going on a ‘journey’ around the world, experiencing the tastes and cultures of that country. For Care Home Open Week, they looked at Madeira. They had a documentary about the country, followed by a traditional Madeiran lunch when they tasted sweet and savoury foods with a guest speaker in the afternoon.
