by Jodie Currey | Aug 21, 2025 | Games, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home always look forward to our regular Q&A sessions – they are simple but so effective! We pick a question and ask everyone to answer – the beauty is, it gets every chatting and reminiscing! This week’s question was...
by Kirstie Newell | Jul 23, 2025 | Games, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Although we’ve been lucky to enjoy plenty of sunshine recently at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, our run of good weather had to end sometime – and the rain finally made an appearance! While our gardens certainly appreciated the downpour, our residents were...
by Jodie Currey | Jun 12, 2025 | Games, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
We trialled a new game last week at The Old Downs Residential Care Home – we called it ‘The Shopping Trolley Game’. We printed out some photos of what you might find in the supermarket but mainly from the 50s and 60s era; we laminated them and included the...
by Kirstie Newell | May 21, 2025 | Games, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Ball games Recently, our residents at The Old Downs Residential Care Home have been really loving ball games. They enjoy seated basketball and everyone is always in stitches trying to get the balls in the net – we must admit, we spend more time giggling than scoring!...
by Kirstie Newell | Dec 4, 2024 | Games, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Staying fit and active is important to us here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, so we do invite fitness providers into our Home to help us with this, but we also do whatever we can ourselves to keep active. The one rule we have – it must spark joy! And the...
by Kirstie Newell | Mar 16, 2023 | Games, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
This week our residents have enjoyed playing some traditional games together here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Our ladies and gents had lots of laughs taking part in a giant game of floor snakes and ladders, using a large inflatable dice for each turn. Lots...
