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Garden reminiscence with books at Lukestone Care Home
On Monday 17 July, we read a ‘Garden in Pictures’ book with our Lukestone Care Home residents in our main lounge. The book contained photographs of gardens, families, children, many familiar flowers and animals, along with a few quotations, as well as poetry. Patricia...
Lukestone Care Home residents and staff celebrate India Day
We celebrated Indian Day on Tuesday 11 July, to appreciate our differences while also fostering respect and open-mindedness towards the Indian culture at Lukestone Care Home. On the day our staff dressed up in Sarees, Lehenga and Kurti in honour of traditional Indian...
Tickled Pink Wild West show at Lukestone Care Home
On Saturday 8 July, Tickled Pink Productions staged a fun musical called ‘Wild Wild West' at Lukestone Care Home. Before the show began, the actors handed out song books to our residents. However, when spectating the performance these were forgotten as everyone was so...
Lukestone Care Home residents and staff love their summer photo booth
On Thursday 29 June, we decided to welcome in summer at Lukestone Care Home with some fun photos. A colourful tropical photo frame worked best to engage our residents and they could choose from a variety of fun props to go with our summer theme. Ann was really...
Social Ability UK visit Lukestone Care Home
Social Ability Happiness Programme Demonstration On Friday 30 June, Adam from Social Ability UK came to demonstrate the Magic Table 360 to our residents here at Lukestone Care Home, using the revolutionary interactive light projector The 'Happiness Programme' is a...
Take Your Dog to Work Day at Lukestone Care Home
On Friday 23 June we had two very special guests at Lukestone Care Home who managed to charm the hearts of everyone they came across. On ‘Take Your Dog to Work Day’ we brought in Mia, a 3-year-old, half Chihuahua and Jack Russell, in the morning. Mia kindly gave free...
Lukestone Care Home residents enjoy celebrating Fathers Day
Here at Lukestone Care Home, we honoured fathers and fatherhood with painting and music for Father’s Day on Sunday 18 June. We made a 'Happy Father's Day' banner which was painted by our residents in beautiful shades of blue and green and displayed on the wall, and...
Lukestone Care Home residents enjoy a trip to Kent Life
On Friday 16 June, we took a group of our residents from Lukestone Care Home for a fun trip to an animal farm, Kent Life. Our residents were excited to meet the variety of domestic animals being looked after. The farmyard included free-range livestock such as sheep,...
Surprise retirement celebrations for Mandy at Lukestone Care Home
Head Chef Mandy – a true legend! On Friday 16 June 2023, we had an amazing retirement celebration for the Mandy Whitehead – Lukestone’s Head Chef – in Sir Thomas Wyatt Beefeater, London Road, Maidstone. Our Home Manager, Milana, and BSO, Terry, were the driving force...
Celebrating Global Wellness Day at Lukestone Care Home
On Saturday 10 June we celebrated Global Wellness Day at Lukestone Care Home with a fruit party for our residents! We had a small celebration in our quiet lounge with an assortment of delicious fruits including bananas, satsumas, pomegranate, watermelon and summer...
Lukestone Care Home residents enjoy a singalong with musical instruments
On Friday 9 June, we had a fun musical activity with our residents here at Lukestone Care Home. Linda and Wiktoria from our Activities Team put on some classic pop songs in our main lounge and passed around tambourines, tiny drums and maracas to all of our residents....
Lukestone Care Home residents work out with resistance bands
Our residents had a fun workout session with resistance bands on Sunday 4 June here at Lukestone Care Home, led by Linda from our Recreation and Well-Being Team. There were various resistance bands on offer, of different elasticity and colours, which peaked our...