Summer Court https://summercourtcare.co.uk Residential Home Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:18:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Classic-Carers-Motif-Blue-RGB.svg Summer Court https://summercourtcare.co.uk 32 32 How Gentle Weekly Activities Strengthen Emotional and Physical Wellbeing in Residential Care https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2025/06/16/how-gentle-weekly-activities-strengthen-emotional-and-physical-wellbeing-in-residential-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-gentle-weekly-activities-strengthen-emotional-and-physical-wellbeing-in-residential-care https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2025/06/16/how-gentle-weekly-activities-strengthen-emotional-and-physical-wellbeing-in-residential-care/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:03:27 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=17665 In elderly care, health is often discussed in terms of medication, nutrition, and fall prevention. But at Summer Court Residential Home, wellbeing is understood more holistically — nurtured not just by healthcare professionals, but through meaningful, gentle experiences that take place every single day. During the week of 12–18 May 2025, the team at Summer […]

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]]> https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2025/06/16/how-gentle-weekly-activities-strengthen-emotional-and-physical-wellbeing-in-residential-care/feed/ 0 Keep Calm And Eat Chocolate https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2020/12/04/keep-calm-and-eat-chocolate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keep-calm-and-eat-chocolate Fri, 04 Dec 2020 11:41:18 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16713 Keep calm and eat chocolate In a world where everything is feeling a bit surreal it’s nice to have some normality, and that comes in the form of Easter celebrations.So, we made our bonnets and went in to the garden (and goodness me, wasn’t it so beautiful and sunny!) and hunted eggs! Some of these […]

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]]> Keeping Our Chin Up https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2020/03/20/keeping-our-chin-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keeping-our-chin-up Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:26:48 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16759 Keeping our chin up It has been a very strange week… lots of change and lots of emotions, but we are trying to keep as positive as we can here and keep things upbeat for the residents. I have to say that that isn’t too difficult with the amazing team that I have here. There […]

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]]> And Today’s Advice… https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2020/03/12/and-todays-advice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=and-todays-advice Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:35:26 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16765 And today’s advice… Gracious me, it’s so hard to write a blog about Coronavirus when things are changing on a day to day basis, so for today, we have made some decisions… We really need to protect our residents, and everything we do is with them at mind. We have put in extra sanitiser stations […]

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]]> Meet The Team! https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2020/02/14/meet-the-team/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-the-team Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:39:11 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16772 Meet the team! Last year we had a few changes to our senior team, so I thought that this was a good place to show them off! Let’s start with Carol… “I joined the team at Summercourt in February 2019 and come with many years experience working as a care home manager, mainly in Torquay […]

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]]> Our Lovely Mothers https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2020/02/03/our-lovely-mothers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-lovely-mothers Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:57:56 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16788 Our Lovely Mothers We made the best of Mothers Day at Summercourt, it was strange but we still managed to raise smiles and celebrate. Jess made video contact with some of our families which was just wonderful, other families came to visit and wave at the window. To top the weekend off Lidl in Teignmouth […]

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]]> An Every Day Thing… https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2020/02/02/an-every-day-thing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-every-day-thing Sun, 02 Feb 2020 12:42:48 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16782 An every day thing… This weekend was National Dignity Day; my feelings about this are a bit like Valentines day… Should be all the time and not just one day of the year! But, it did give us a chance to celebrate all that is good about good care and what we think dignity is […]

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]]> Better Than A Summer Holiday https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2019/08/12/better-than-a-summer-holiday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=better-than-a-summer-holiday Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:00:16 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16794 Better than a summer holiday It was a very dry and hot start to the summer which really helped our garden. The residents enjoyed the shade in the sunshine and Hilary said it was like being on holiday! They really appreciated the stunning flowers and hard work that had gone on for our Teignmouth in […]

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]]> We Went To The Zoo Zoo Zoo… https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2019/05/23/we-went-to-the-zoo-zoo-zoo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-went-to-the-zoo-zoo-zoo Thu, 23 May 2019 13:02:27 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16803 We went to the zoo zoo zoo… What a brilliant trip we had to Paignton Zoo this week! It’s always a bit touch and go weather wise at this time of year, but the morning was glorious and in the afternoon we all laughed as we dodged the showers! Dawlish Disability Transport made it a […]

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]]> It’s A Dog’s Life https://summercourtcare.co.uk/2019/05/14/its-a-dogs-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-a-dogs-life Tue, 14 May 2019 13:04:13 +0000 https://summercourtcare.co.uk/?p=16809 It’s a dog’s life I must apologise for my lack of blog, my head has been a bit consumed with dog! I have a lovely new puppy called Dylan, and he really is just adorable (slightly biased I know!). So last week my daughter brought him in to meet the residents before her evening shift. […]

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