The Knights Care Home

28/12/2025

Some of our residents need individual carers and they develop strong bonds over time. My colleague and our Christmas jumper-clad resident had some fun in the park, taking different poses for the camera, on a sunny day.

28/12/2025

❤️ musical films are one of the most delightful things in modern life 💛🧡🩷❤️💜💙💚 especially in dazzling technicolor! ❤️

28/12/2025

Today we had our monthly residents meeting, focused on our hopes for the new year 🎊, how we see the future, our dearest wishes, and events we loved in 2025 💭💬. It was a moving conversation, during which residents expressed joys, fears and fantasies, and showed what their core values are 💕. In the afternoon, we enjoyed a lively movie matinée during which everyone was under the spell 👁👁 of the eternal screen goddess Marilyn Monroe in her star-making role as Lorelei Lee in 🎬Gentlemen Prefer Blondes🎬 💃🏻💃🏼. Residents danced, sang and tapped along to the great musical numbers!

27/12/2025

Two of the most relaxing and stimulating things for people living with dementia are music 🪕 and nature 🍀🪲🦎🦚, so we spent the day with animals and songs to unwind after the busy Christmas festivities. Our new karaoke box had some unforeseen and hilarious sound effects 🫨😵‍💫🫣😆 and we loved seeing the snowdrop stems popping up 🌱. We found some nice intersections of the two elements when residents whistled in response to bird songs I played 🐦😙🎶. It was also joyful to meet other residents out with their families at the same café - living in a small coastal town provides a friendly and approachable intergenerational community for our residents 👫🧑🏾‍🦽🤸🏼🚴🏿‍♀️👩🏼‍🦼👨🏿‍🦯👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻. We're also planning an ongoing bird bingo board and a birthday trip to the zoo for our former zookeeper who misses her beloved lemurs. Finally I started getting some materials to host hyper-immersive sensory therapy sessions 🪶🔮🌺🌸✨️, I can't wait!

25/12/2025

❤️💚❤️💚❤️ Christmas 🎄 at 🎄 Knights! Winter Wonderland crafts! ❤️ Christingle, oranges, candles and hymns! 💚 Family visits and cuddles with dogs! ❤️ Singing and dancing! 💚 A visit from Father Christmas! ❤️ Delicious food from our chefs Donna and Betty! 💚 Wonderful films to sing along to! ❤️ Flowers, chocolates and gifts! 💚 Jokes and good cheer! ❤️ Much love from the Knights family to you all ❤️💚❤️💚❤️

22/12/2025

Into the groove with some mindful colouring 🍥⚙️🌀♾️🌸🎡🪩

22/12/2025

Today was a quiet day in terms of group activities - we played some board games 🎲 and building/design games 🟨🔻🔵, did some mindful colouring 🌈✍️, a little dancing 🙆🏼‍♀️ - as the focus was on the numerous visitors who are coming to see our residents for the holidays 🤗🤗 - to catch up and reminisce, bring gifts 🍫 and flowers 🌸, and watch classic films together. Residents loved 🎬King of Kings🎬 and 🎬An Ideal Husband🎬, both full of adventure and surprises.

21/12/2025

Every Cosmo girl knows that nails must sparkle at Christmas time 💅✨️🌟

21/12/2025

Some jolliness from our outing to the Carol service this morning 🎼

21/12/2025

The residents enjoyed their trip to the carol service at our local United Reformed Church, a socially involved church that operates our local food bank 🤲🏻 and many other services fighting poverty 🫱🏽‍🫲🏻 and isolation 🫶. We sang 🎺🎹🎼 and read the hymns 📖, socialized with our neighbours 🗣 and added the names of recently departed and ill residents to the prayer tree, to keep them in our thoughts 🌳👼. It was a moving service bringing joy, celebrating the innocence of children, coming together with music and thinking about the most vulnerable in our society and how we can help them 🤍💛🧡🩷❤️💜💙🩵💚🤎🖤.

20/12/2025

Today we finalized our plans for Christmas 🎅, we're very much looking forward to the celebration! This morning, we enjoyed some poetry reading and writing 📜🪶, word games, quizzes and brain teasers 🔠🔤, and read the Christmas cards 💌👁👁✉️ we received. A resident who used to be a draughtsman spent some time poring over technical drawings 📐🔎 - as part of person-centred care it's important to maintain residents' hobbies and professionnal interests 🤓, to boost self-esteem. In the afternoon, we had some fun with different active and precision ball games 🎈⚽️🎴, including one I made using a torn portrait painting from our cellar 😆 - waste not, want not ♻️♻️♻️!

18/12/2025

A reminder- we hope to see you there!

Some residents, during our monthly meeting, expressed the desire to go to the carol Christmas service 🎄👼🌟🔔. We will be attending the service at the URC church near Knights (opposite Aldi), leaving around 10.15-10.30 on December 21st. If family members or friends would like to visit at that time, it would be lovely to go as a bigger group 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧👴👨‍👩‍👦👩‍👦👵👨‍👩‍👧🧓🏿👨‍👦👶🏽👬 and sing 🎶🎶 together.