by Kirstie Newell | Feb 7, 2024 | Hengist Field Care Home, Sensory Exploration
Having a wide range of interesting sensory activities and arts and crafts opportunities here at Hengist Field Care Home is important for our residents. We have a fantastic selection of sensory items on offer which stimulate and engage our ladies and gents and bring a...
by Kirstie Newell | Nov 23, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, Sensory Exploration
We enjoyed some sensory fun on Thursday 16 November with our Horsa community residents here at Hengist Field Care Home. We used different sized, textured and coloured stress balls, cuddly soft toy birds that sing, and a selection of colourful different shaped fidgets...
by Kirstie Newell | Aug 16, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, Sensory Exploration
As the weather was so gorgeous on the morning of Tuesday 15 August, we took some of our Hengist Field Care Home residents for a lovely stroll up to the large pond just beyond our car park. It was so lovely to take in the fresh air as we all chatted together. We looked...
by Kirstie Newell | May 3, 2023 | Hengist Field Care Home, Sensory Exploration
Here at Hengist Field Care Home we like to do a lot of sensory activities, especially ones that use our sense of smell; mint, curry plant, lavender and other herbs – many scents can spark reminiscence of a place, time or special memory. Eighteen months ago, we...
by Jodie Currey | Apr 20, 2022 | Hengist Field Care Home, Sensory Exploration
Our residents here at Hengist Field Care Home had the opportunity to explore their sense of smell on Thursday 14 April and to see if they could guess the scent correctly from a selection of scented wax pots. Some of our ladies and gents recognised the different scents...
by Kirstie Newell | Jan 17, 2022 | Hengist Field Care Home, Sensory Exploration
On a regular basic, we encourage our residents on our Dementia Unit at Hengist Field Care Home to enjoy a session on their amazing Magic Table – an interactive table full of fun and engaging sensory displays to interact with. Different activities are added to...