Laurel Care Home

The residents enjoyed our memory box activity yesterday with the sun shining outside. Everyone’s very much looking forward to Spring 🌼

Arts and crafts 🪴

Our good friends Door Step were back with some entertainment this week 😊

Our residents and staff made some lovely cards and decorations for Valentine’s Day yesterday 💜

Laurel Care Home’s favourite four legged friend Chester was back bringing smiles to everyone’s faces yesterday 🐶

Smiles all around for musical bingo 😁

Everyone had a wonderful time listening to songs from singer Caryn, a new entertainer for Laurel Care Home🎤

A few of our lovely ladies having a good knit, chat and a lot of laughter 😁

Yesterday’s trip to Southsea with a couple of the residents 🌊

The residents had a wonderful time during our musical quiz the other day 🎶

Yesterday our residents enjoyed entertainment from our good friends Door Step 🎤

Although the Winter months at Laurel Care Home are as cosy as they are, we're very much looking forward to some Spring Sun out in our beautiful gardens. 🌳

Today our residents enjoyed a lovely game of Snakes & Ladders 🐍🪜

We take a holistic approach to care which to us means understanding the whole person first before we even pick up a pen to devise a care plan. Food and mealtimes are typically highly enjoyable part of the day.

Our Kitchen Manager has worked with us for nearly thirty years and she runs a team dedicated to preparing fresh home-cooked dishes primarily sourced from high-quality local suppliers. If liver and bacon casserole, toad in the hole, treacle sponge and custard or apple crumble doesn’t put a smile on your face then it will probably add an inch or two to your waistline.

We now have our own Laurel Care Home vehicle which we use to take residents out for a drive twice a week. It accommodates 2 seated passengers and 1 wheelchair passenger and makes for a fun and jolly trip out to the beach, forest or sometimes around Southampton recalling landmarks and memories. All residents who are able to travel have the opportunity to have a trip out and the activities team share this round and vary the destinations.

Happy New Year! A big thank you to Alwin for entertaining us yesterday.

Yesterday we were visited by a very special guest 🎄🧑‍🎄

We would like to wish all our residents, their families and our wonderful staff a very Merry Christmas - you all deserve it! 🎄🎁

Big thank you to everyone at Door Step for our fantastic Christmas show 🎄

Everyone had a fantastic time for Laurel Care Home Christmas Bingo 🎄

The residents have loved watching Christmas films to get in the festive spirit this year 🎄

A big thank you to all who came to the home for our carol service. We would also like to say a big thank you to all the staff for making it happen and of course, the wonderful New Forest Band.

We had a lovely lunchtime trip out to the local garden centre to see some of the reindeer 🎄

It’s Christmas bingo time here at Laurel Care Home 🎄

Laurel Care Home’s favourite dog popped back in to say hello on the weekend. Thanks for coming Chester 🐶🐾

Some of our lovely ladies having a good chat and a knit the other morning 🧶

Pudsey Bear visited Laurel Care Home this week for Children In Need 🧸

The residents enjoyed a lovely game of bingo this morning with the Laurel Care Home star caller Ted 🧸

Yesterday our residents celebrated the festival of lights Diwali we lights displayed around the home, facts and a nice quiz 🪔

We made some extra delicious treats this morning 🧁🍫