Wednesday February 1st was National Dignity Day, a day that gives everyone the opportunity to uphold people’s rights to dignity and provide a truly memorable day for people receiving care.
Staff at Greenacres Care Home in Meltham, embraced National Dignity Day with a day of activities,
Care home Manager Tracey Nash commented
“National Dignity Day for us is all about making the day extra special for our residents. We wanted to remind our residents of memories from the past, enjoy the present and to wish good things for the future”
To incorporate all these things together Staff at Greenacres bought the “old pub” into the home; creating an old fashioned pub atmosphere and environment using old pictures, memorabilia, hosting dominoes games, darts matches and of course serving good old British pub food. Residents were reminded of their tipples from the past including Cherry Bee, Baby Sham and Snowballs.
The party really began to start when Belinda led a good old fashioned sing song accompanied by residents and staff belting out classics such as roll out the barrel, Daisy Daisy and It’s a long way to Tipperary,
During the day residents were invited to make a personal wish and invited residents to post their wishes on a wish board. Many wishes were residents wishing their friends at Greenacres good health and happiness, love to be sent to anyone who had any troubles, as well as a wish for Guinness to be served at their events and the Greenacres pub to open all the time.
One resident only had to wait 2 weeks to wait for his wish to come true; Michael Morris wished for a visit from the Guide Dogs for the Blind and his wish came true on Thursday 16th February. Margaret Kenworthy who is a puppy walker for the guide dogs came to meet Michael and introduce him to Fonda a beautiful 11 month old golden retriever to Greenacres.
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