by Kirstie Newell | Jul 30, 2025 | Food and Dining, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
One activity we introduced this year at The Old Downs Residential Care Home has quickly become a firm favourite on our Recreation calendar – sandwich making! This simple yet meaningful activity promotes independence and a sense of purpose for our residents. Each...
by Kirstie Newell | May 27, 2025 | Food and Dining, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home our residents like to stay as independent as they can, and we have a few ways that we like to support this. At least once a month, we make our own sandwiches for our supper. This is one of the ways our residents can be in...
by Kirstie Newell | Apr 30, 2025 | Food and Dining, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Last Saturday at The Old Downs Residential Care Home was a busy one for us! We started the morning with a ‘Helping Hands’ session and on the agenda was sandwich making. We love doing this at our Home, as it allows our residents to be independent and...
by Kirstie Newell | Apr 15, 2025 | Food and Dining, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
One of the simple pleasures of the warmer weather are our cheese and wine evenings here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home – and last Saturday, our residents all enjoyed the first cheese and wine gathering of the spring! We all got together in our dining area so...
by Kirstie Newell | Mar 27, 2025 | Food and Dining, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Throughout Nutrition and Hydration Week (17-23 March), we used a few different ways of encouraging our residents here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home to focus on hydration and eating well. Did somebody say cocktails? We did at The Old Downs! Saturday night was...
by Jodie Currey | Mar 12, 2025 | Food and Dining, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
What’s one of the best days of the year? Some might answer with Christmas or maybe Easter, but for us at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, we would probably have to say Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day! Our residents love anything sweet, so of course...
