🏅At Milford Care, we’re constantly working hard to fulfil the lives of our residents. We understand that physical wellbeing can deteriorate over time, however, that’s no reason to give up! With encouragement from our caregivers, we can improve a residents' physical and mental health through exercise and group activity.
The Meadows: Care Home resident's, Audrey and Jean, had a fabulous day in Alfreton town yesterday 💚
Accompanied by our Dementia Care Champion Janet and our Activities Coordinator Georgia, Audrey picked up some delicious cakes to treat everyone in the care home. When she got back home,...
Some lovely photos from our Buddleia House: Care Home residents who enjoy being busy.
Bingo, arts and crafts, gardening, bowls, book club, cookery, music, dancing - the list is endless! We encourage all of our residents to participate if they want to.
We'd...
Fancy some fun? Come to our Ashbourne Lodge Care Home Summer Fair 🍨
When – Saturday 23rd July
Time – 2-4pm
Things we're doing – stalls, games, a live band, raffle, tombola, BBQ, ice creams and loads more!
We'd love to see...
Say hello to our new manager of Hazelgrove: Care Home, Camelia Bran! 👋
Cami has nearly two decades of experience in the care sector and holds a QCF Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care.
“I believe it’s important to...
💙 Wonderful words from the wife of our resident at Buddleia House: Care Home in Hucknall. This lovely review about her husband’s care is from the trusted, independent review site, carehome.co.uk.
💬 Her full review said: “My husband went into Buddleia House on the 9th of May....
Our Hazelgrove: residents had a wonderful weekend in the sunshine, relaxing in the garden and taking part in lots of activities. We loved these photos so much that we couldn't not share them with you.
We think the smiles speak for themselves 🧡
☀️ Ashbourne Lodge Care Home residents have been having a brilliant time today at Carsington Water! They had a lovely picnic in the sun, took activity books to do some insect spotting, and went back to their childhood by having a go on the swings and roundabout.
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Temperatures are soaring into the 30s and it’s due to be another sunny day 🌞
While lots of us are looking forward to bathing outside, it’s vital we look after our older family, friends and neighbours by helping them stay cool. Water, ice lollies and fans...
We hope you're enjoying the blissful weather!
Our Milford House: Care Home residents have been spending some time in the garden, playing with water balloons and creating some spray paintings.
Don't forget to keep topping yourself up with water in this steaming heat!...
🍓 Who's enjoying Wimbledon? Spencer Grove: Care Home have their own championship going on!
🤗 #TuesdayThoughts from the daughter of a resident who has experienced the joys of staying at The Meadows: Care Home in Alfreton.
👏 Rated 'Good' by the CQC, The Meadows provides a range of care including residential care, dementia care and respite breaks, all...
What gets you up in the morning? Sometimes we work so much that we forget how working gives us a feeling of purpose!
Our residents love to help our staff with small or big tasks whether that's a little bit of admin or making scones for...
🥧 Our lovely resident, Lawrence, fancied a treat and went for a walk over to the chippy to get himself steak & kidney pie, chips and mushy peas. Nothing quite like a chippy tea!
At our Milford Care homes, we like to promote independence as much...
#FeelGoodFriday comes from Milford House's visit from Daisy the dog 🐕 Dot also enjoyed taking Daisy out for a lovely walk in the glorious sunshine. We think you'll love these gorgeous pictures!
@Buddleia House know how to celebrate the sunny weather - by heading to the park!
We love to get out and about when we can, and enjoy new experiences and adventures. Our residents love exploring the surrounding areas and there's nothing quite like seeing...
How do you stay cool in this weather? 🥵
Spencer Grove care home in Belper made fans of paper and enjoyed lots of ice lollies while playing Bingo. What great ideas!
Here's a sneaky look into our night at the #MilfordCareAwards ✨
@MeadowsCareHome look so beautiful dressed up! #lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome
Tonight we celebrate! 🏆
Our Milford Care family are gathering together for our annual awards ceremony to celebrate the efforts of everyone in our care homes.
We have awards, food, drinks and dancing - a great combination if you ask us 😉 We...
🐈 We'd like to say a huge welcome to Tilly, who joined our Ashbourne Lodge care home yesterday.
She's absolutely adorable and settling in nicely, getting constant strokes from the residents and staff.
At Milford Care, we like to encourage pet therapy...
💚 We couldn’t be happier with our latest review for our Ashbourne Lodge care home. Her mum joined the Milford Care family and now she’s one of our biggest cheerleaders!
🥇 This feedback is just one of the many reasons that Ashbourne Lodge has a rating...
SENSORY THERAPY 🎨
Sensory therapy is a great way of getting our motor skills going and for soothing our residents. Milford House: residents made some colourful ‘under the sea’ jars and we love them!
Sensory therapy is another example of Montessori that we use...
Buddleia House: Care Home had a brilliant time for #jubilee2022. What great tshirts!
Are you ready for the Jubilee? 🥳
Hazelgrove: Care Home are! Do you love the decorations? We're fully prepped for a party here!
👑 Yesterday was incredible fun! Thank you to all of our homes for making such fabulous creations for the ‘Design a Pudding Fit For A Queen’ competition. You all made so much effort and seeing the smiles on the residents' faces made our day.
Congratulations to Milford...
Today we host our inter-homes 'Design a pudding fit for a Queen' competition. We cannot wait to see the puddings our homes have come up with! 🥧
Spencer Grove: Care Home Buddleia House: Care Home Milford House: Care Home The Meadows: Care Home Hazelgrove: Care Home...
💚 We’re putting our Alfreton-based care home The Meadows: in the spotlight today for #MotivationMonday.
🌹 The Meadows is split into two areas - Rose Court for nursing care and Lavender Court for residential care.
Some of its features include:
...
⭐️ VOTING CLOSES TODAY ⭐️
Click on the link below to show your gratitude 👇
https://bit.ly/3kP0LvA
There's still time to vote! ⭐️
Has a member of our Milford Care team gone out of their way for you? Have you someone treat a resident with care and compassion? Do you want to give recognition to someone who has helped you out of a situation?
🤗 #FridayFeelings from the daughter of our lovely resident who lives long term at our The Meadows: Care Home in Alfreton.
👏 Rated 'Good' by the CQC, The Meadows provides a range of care including residential care, dementia care and respite breaks with all...
We'd like to show our appreciation for all of our fantastic nurses, who are truly dedicated each and every one of our residents.
Your hard work and commitment is astounding and we are so grateful to have you in our Milford Care family.
...
🥧 Design a pudding fit for a Queen 🥧
We've been busy at the care homes coming up with some delicious ideas for our Design a pudding fit for a Queen competition.
To read more about it, take a look at this post...
MONTESSORI 💙
Buddleia House: Care Home resident, Marilyn, loves helping out with the admin tasks. Yesterday, she spent her time preparing some application forms and we couldn't have been more grateful.
At our Milford Care homes, we practice Montessori care and it's at...
WE NEED YOUR VOTE! ⭐️
At Milford Care, our staff are our superstars. Each year we hold the Milford Care Awards to celebrate their successes and they need your vote.
Whether it's a member of staff that's gone above and beyond your expectations...
Alan and Logie from our Buddleia House: Care Home doing their musical tribute. The home loved it!🎸
#BuddleiaBeatles #musicaltherapy #lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome
🌻 We’re putting our Duffield-based care home, Milford House: Care Home, in the spotlight today. This stunning home has won multiple awards and is known for its community spirit. Some of its key features include:
🏡 Grade ll listed Georgian manor house
✔️ CQC ‘Good’ rating
We've opened our doors back up to visits with our relatives and friends and it's been very emotional.
We're so thankful we can invite people again and want to thank you all for your patience and understanding ❤️
We want your help!
In true Milford Care style, we’re using the Queen’s Jubilee to celebrate as much as possible! As well as parties and prosecco throughout the coming months, we’ve been inspired by Fortnum and Mason to give all six of our Milford Care homes...
EASTER CELEBRATIONS 🐣
All of our care homes had a brilliant time for Easter, experimenting with arts and eating plenty of chocolate.
Here's some snaps from our Belper care home, Spencer Grove: 💙
😍 For our #WednesdayWords, we're bringing it back to this amazing review that brought smiles to the Milford House team's faces.
❤️ This review comes from Mark, whose family were blown away by the care given to his grandma at Milford House: Care Home...
HAPPY EASTER WEEK 🐤
Hazelgrove: Care Home are getting ready for the weekend by taking part in some baking, making delicious rice crispy cakes. Do you like their bunny ears?
HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY BUDDLEIA HOUSE 🎉
Our Hucknall home, Buddleia House, turns 3 today and we've been partying like it's the Millennium all over again!
The home has accomplished so much in its 3 years. Thank you to all our wonderful staff, residents...
A very Happy 100th Birthday to our Helen! We hope you enjoyed your day with your Buddleia House: Care Home family 🥳
🌞 If you need something to brighten up your Thursday, take a look at this musical video from the residents at The Meadows: Care Home, #Alfreton.
#montessoriliving #alfretoncarehome #LifeAtMilfordCare #LifeInACareHome
The Meadows: Care Home, Alfreton, enjoyed some lovely treats for Mother's Day ❤️
#Alfretoncarehome #LifeAtMilfordCare #LifeInACareHome #MothersDay
It's the National Day of Reflection so we’re taking the time to honour those we have lost during the last two years.
We’d also like to show our appreciation for our fantastic teams across all of our care homes. Your hardwork and dedication to Milford Care has...
😊 A relaxed morning at our Ashbourne Lodge Care Home with weekly Book Club and Balloon Tennis.
Both of these activities go down really well with our residents. #CareHomeActivities #lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome
💧 Nutrition and Hydration Week
Today, we're chatting all things water! There's a long list of benefits that water gives us including:
👉 Boosting skin health
👉 Increase energy levels
👉 Deliver oxygen throughout the body
👉 Maintain blood...
🥕 Nutrition and Hydration Week.
People experience problems eating and drinking for a number of reasons, for example if they’ve had a stroke or suffer from dementia, and as result, lose weight or pick at their food.
We realised this to be an issue...
It’s Nutrition and Hydration week! 🥑🍒🍏🍦💧
The health of our residents and the food they eat is so important to us that we want to show how diverse and delicious it can be!
Today we’re starting with our menu. This menu is from...
We woke up this morning to this amazing review for our Ashbourne Lodge Care Home from one of our Facebook followers 💚
She commented, “I am constantly amazed and impressed by all the activities that you do, and how much effort you make in creating a stimulating...
🥰 RESPITE CARE
Respite care is often associated with taking a break from caring for a loved one, but it’s so much more than that.
Respite care is:
🤝 Receiving extra support
🌲 A change of scenery
...
Happy Birthday to both Roy and Nelly at The Meadows: Care Home. Hope your day is as wonderful as you are! 🥳
#lifeatmilfordcare #LifeInACareHome #alfretoncarehome #alfreton
🥰 We’re so happy to say we received top marks for our Spencer Grove: Care Home in #Belper from a family who were ecstatic with the care given to their Mum.
💙 The review from independent review site, carehome.co.uk, said:
"Our...
🐦 Spring is here! The Meadows: Care Home residents spent their weekend building some bird feeders for their garden ready for the wildlife to enjoy.
What did you get up to this weekend?
✅ To find out more about #residentialcare,
🏐 "Wow! What a treat we had today getting to hold an original Shrovetide ball.
The residents of Ashbourne Lodge enjoyed holding the ball and learning how much effort goes into making it. The ball is made from handstitched leather, filled with cork and hours of detailed...
🏠 Have a pint in the pub, feed the chickens or visit the sweet shop! Buddleia House: Care Home is our newest Milford Care home, specialising in dementia care which helps to give our residents their independence back.
With everything designed meticulously within the home, Buddleia House...
🔊 This is Ken. Ken is a part of the Milford House: Care Home family based in Belper. However, Ken is so much more than a resident. Ken used to run his very own art class in Breadsall and even had exhibitions of his work.
🖌 Ken...
🏆 This is Joan. Joan is a lovely resident at The Meadows: Care Home based in Alfreton. But Joan is so much more than a resident. Joan is a talented pianist, published author, ex-prison worker and an MBE holder!
📚 Joan’s book “Jesus Walks Them Landings” is...
🗣 A dose of #ThursdayThoughts from the daughter of two residents that were a part of the Spencer Grove: Care Home family in Belper. This review is from the independent review site carehome.co.uk.
The full review said: "My mum and dad both lived at...
✨ At Milford Care we practice the Montessori Way Of Life, which encourages our residents to get involved with tasks to boost self esteem and confidence.
This morning at our Hucknall-based Hazelgrove: Care Home, one of our lovely residents jumped at the chance to help our...
Hands up if you've heard these said about care homes -
▪️"Residents are lonely" 🙋♂️
▪️"The food is bland" 🙋♀️
▪️"Care homes smell" 🙋♂️
👇If you've heard these (amongst other popular myths) then take a look at our blog post below...
🥳 We are so excited to share that our @The Meadows: Care Home have scooped the Derbyshire Dignity Award for another year running thanks to the team's hard work and love for the residents. We couldn't #LifeInACareHome
Read their story...
📰 BREAKING NEWS! 📰
🍫 Belper-home, Milford House: Care Home, had brilliant fun broadcasting their own news report. Pat & Dot did a fabulous job of reporting the scandal of Sheila - the Registered Home Manager stealing chocolate from the tuck shop!
🧐 Don't...
🥪 Who's for lunch?
Residents of Hazelgrove: Care Home in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire have enjoyed putting together their own sandwiches today, choosing from a choice of fillings including tuna mayo, egg, cheese and many more.
Alongside our Montessori-trained staff, the residents excelled at this task,...
🤩 Our Dementia Care Champions have been featured in a new post from Derbyshire Live. Grab a brew and have a read:
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/special-features/milford-care-invests-trailblazing-dementia-6578318
💬 What is Montessori?
We talk a lot about Montessori at Milford Care - it’s so important to us that our residents feel empowered and we channel this through every one of our six homes. This is how we approach Montessori...
👉 Montessori...
⭐️ For Motivation Monday, we’re putting one of our ‘Outstanding’ CQC care homes in the spotlight today. Ashbourne Lodge Care Home is a “boutique-hotel” style home which has won multiple awards, including Derbyshire Quality End of Life Award and national recognition in the Great British Care Awards.
Good morning all,
Thank you for being so patient with our homes during this difficult time. As you will know, COVID-19 is still afoot and as such, we have to protect our residents and staff as much as possible. Based on this, we have had some official...
🌟 We’re putting our Alfreton-based care home The Meadows: Care Home in the spotlight today for #WednesdayWisdom.
🌹 The Meadows is split into two areas - Rose Court for nursing care and Lavender Court for residential care.
Some of its features...
❤ We’re massively passionate about food – many call us foodie’s!
🍲 We love to serve wholesome, tummy-warming meals that truly hit the spot. Whether you’re a fan of pie or love a Friday night curry, we’re happy to accommodate it.
👉...
💙 For #WednesdayMotivation we’re focussing on the dedication of the Buddleia House: Care Home care assistants who have helped to turn this family’s life around.
👫 At Milford Care, we truly believe family and a sense of belonging are the most important aspects. As...
