Care Home Activities & Events
At Thomas Owen House activities and events are a central part of the care we provide.
The home has its own dedicated activity coordinators who are especially devoted to organising a range of stimulating and engaging activities.
We want life in our home to be as active and engaging as you want it to be. Our activities are inspired by you, whether these are lifelong interests or the wish to discover new ones.
These are based on individual needs and have included computer classes, cooking and nutrition, shopping, attendance at a gym, personal laundry, road safety and budgeting.
Additionally, whether you enjoy drawing, painting, jigsaw puzzles, singing, pottering in the garden or chats over coffee, our care home can provide or help you access mentally stimulating activities as well as physical games.
Central to our approach to occupational therapy is our specially adapted minibus offering our residents daily access to the wider community. We have excellent links with our local community centre, and we have weekly trips there to provide a positive community focused environment for people to thrive in.
As well as fun trips out in our own adapted minibus, they also work with residents to provide meaningful activities. A good example of this is a recent scheme where residents volunteer at a local charity, improving their sense of self worth and the charity gets several willing pairs of hands.
Our day trips have a very important effect in normalising a person’s experience and enriching their day to day lives. We provide shopping, visits to the bank, lunch trips, theatre visits, leisure sites and place of interest including longer trips to the coast as well as routine life events such as visiting the doctor, dentist, optician, social worker, solicitor, gym and beauty parlour.
Resident’s families are sent a quarterly newsletter showing a taste of the activities that have happened, and are actively encouraged to play as large a part in their relatives lives as they choose.