Entries by Camelot Care

MAJOR AWARD WINS FOR BUTTERFLY LODGE TEAM

Staff at Butterfly Lodge Dementia Nursing Home in Plymouth are celebrating a quadruple haul of awards in the 2024 Celebrating Excellence in Care Awards, relaunched this year by Plymouth City Council for the first time since 2019. Manager Clare Sinclair scooped the coveted title of Care Home Manager of the Year, with her deputy Sarah […]

INTERGENERATIONAL FUN FOR WORLD BOOK DAY

Dressing up costumes were chosen with World Book Day (7 March) in mind and worn by preschoolers from Bridgwater’s Little Montessori House were a great hit with their neighbours who live in the town’s Avalon Nursing Home. The youngsters all arrived at Avalon dressed as their favourite characters from their favourite books. Once they’d shown […]

Mimi the therapy dog aces care home visits

For care home resident Patricia, Wednesdays can’t come around quickly enough. It’s the day she gets to spend some quality time with her favourite pooch, border terrier MiMi, on her visits to Chestnut Lodge near Yeovil run by care provider Camelot Care. MiMi, 12, alongside her owner Ros Kanter, is a regular at the home […]

DREAMS COME TRUE FOR CARE HOME RESIDENTS

Dreams are coming true for residents at a specialist dementia care home who are being supported by staff to revisit favourite activities they thought they were no longer able to do. Ideas for entries for a wish-list entitled ‘If only I could’ have been put forward by staff members after individual chats with the people […]

PLYMOUTH DEMENTIA CARE HOME MAINTAINS ACCREDITATION FOR EXCELLENT END-OF-LIFE CARE

A team of care professionals who work at a specialist dementia care home in Plymouth have been recognised for delivering excellent end-of-life care by St Luke’s Hospice in Plymouth, marking the fourth consecutive time staff at the home have been recognised for the excellent way they implement the charity’s focused Six Steps + programme. The […]