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Italian Day at Loose Valley Care Home
Last week here at Loose Valley Care Home, we travelled to Venice for the day! Our Recreation and Well-Being Champion Paula made all our fabulous decorations, including our gondola, and transformed our conservatory into an Italian paradise. We decided to choose Italy...
Loose Valley Care Home residents make floral displays
Last week at Loose Valley Care Home, our ladies and gents enjoyed getting creative, arranging their own vases of flowers. We had a beautiful mixture of lilies, tulips, roses and carnations – in reds, oranges, yellows and whites. One of our gents helped trim the...
Loose Valley Care Home celebrates Marjories 103rd birthday
Last week at Loose Valley Care Home we had the pleasure of celebrating our lovely Marjorie’s 103rd birthday – what a wonderful milestone! Marjorie’s family and friends came in to celebrate the very special occasion with her and her daughter-in-law baked a beautiful...
Dignity Action Day inspiration at Loose Valley Care Home
On Thursday 1 February we joined in with Dignity Action Day here at Loose Valley Care Home, sharing the importance of dignity and what that means for every individual. Here at Loose Valley, dignity is always at the centre of the care we give to our residents. To...
Loose Valley Care Home residents enjoy historical discussions and Burns Night
Last week here at Loose Valley Care Home, we enjoyed a fascinating look back in time at some interesting historical places and people Maidstone Zoo and Cobtree Manor On Monday 22 January, we talked together about the history of Maidstone Zoo, opened in 1934 by the...
Caz and Ellie perform at Loose Valley Care Home
On Tuesday 16 January we were delighted to invite mother and daughter vocal duo, Caz and Ellie, in to Loose Valley Care Home to sing for our residents in the afternoon. We all loved their music which included the Mexican tune 'La Bamba', lots of Cliff Richard hits,...
Mexican Week at Loose Valley Care Home
Our residents had a great time last week on our Nellsar virtual mini cruise to Mexico here at Loose Valley Care Home. Our conservatory got transformed into a mass of colour and all our residents received a handmade Mexican souvenir made from felt – a donkey, cactus,...
Kicking off the New Year at Loose Valley Care Home
A huge 'Happy New Year' from us all at Loose Valley Care Home! Arts, crafts and nails! We have lots of artistic residents at our Home, so we spent an afternoon of decorating our own New Year's banner to hang in our conservatory. Everyone got involved and put there own...
Loose Valley Care Home hosts a festive Christmas Fete
On Saturday 16 December, we organised a Christmas Fete here at Loose Valley Care Home for our residents, families and friends to celebrate together. We served hot chocolate, mulled wine, pulled pork baps and an array of Christmassy sweet treats for everyone to enjoy,...
Loose Valley Care Home residents visit Kenward Trust
A group of our residents at Loose Valley Care Home took the minibus down to Kenward Trust last Thursday. We came down the long sweeping driveway down to a huge white manner house; it was a cold day but nice and dry. We were met by the wonderful staff there who had...
Tiger Primary School children visit Loose Valley Care Home
Last week at Loose Valley Care Home we welcomed a small group of children from Tiger Primary School in to sing Christmas carols for our residents. We had a very full room as so many wanted to come and meet the children and listen to them sing. They sang all the...
Loose Valley Care Home gents enjoy a pub lunch outing
On Tuesday 5 December we took our Loose Valley Care Home residents Doug and Bob to a local pub in East Malling called the King and Queen for some social time and a spot of lunch. The King and Queen is a traditional pub in looks, and we picked a great day for it, as it...