by Kirstie Newell | Jun 24, 2025 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
With the summer well and truly in swing now, we wanted to celebrate its arrival at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, and what better way than with a dance and singsong. Rob T came to perform for us last week and he had everyone up and dancing in no time! Rob sang a...
by Kirstie Newell | May 7, 2025 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
As time moves so fast, so does technology, and here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, technology does not discriminate! We have various pieces of technology which we have been slowly teaching our residents to use, and it’s going very well! Having smart...
by Kirstie Newell | Feb 12, 2025 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Through the years we have many elements that make up our life, but one constant that we all share is music. We dance to it, we listen to it, and we feel it; music is such a powerful tool in all our lives, and it is part of many of our residents’ cherished...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 24, 2024 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
This month we celebrated National Grandparents Day here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Many of our residents are musical theatre fans, so we booked a show called ‘The Sound of Musicals’ to entertain our ladies and gents. The talented Anne-Marie...
by Kirstie Newell | Oct 2, 2024 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
Here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home, something that never fails to bring joy to our residents is music. Music is very beneficial and we find one of the most magical things is the verbal fluency it brings; lyric reminiscence from a song that could be years old...
by Kirstie Newell | Aug 28, 2024 | Music and Entertainment, The Old Downs Residential Care Home
We were all lucky enough to have an evening with an incredibly talented singer, Ian Gallagher, recently here at The Old Downs Residential Care Home. Ian performed a tribute to the one and only Frank Sinatra and we spent the evening in our beautiful garden dancing in...
